regency

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Dowager Duchess of Kent and Strathearn and Sir John Conroy As we well know, during her childhood Queen Victoria was under the rigid Kensington System, it was created to govern her education, with the intention that if Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld...

I would like to have opinions on the form that a regency takes on England at the very beginning of the 17th century. Based on a POD where James VI is killed during the Gowrie Conspiracy in August 1600, I imagined a sequence of events that would bring young Henry Stuart to England to flee his...

OTL, King Frederick V of Denmark-Norway had two sons: the mentally-ill Christian VII from his first marriage, and the benignly incompetent Arveprins Frederik from his second. But let's say that, in a drunken stupor, he manages to conceive a third son with his second wife Juliane Marie, who ends...

As it says on the tin. IIRC, Nappy had three horses shot out from under him on the battlefield. One contemporary account describes him as resembling a man "looking for death" on the battlefield. Would it bring any glory to the tarnished imperial regime? Or would it simply lead to an earlier...

So, @President Roosevelt's TL got me thinking about the differences between the Petrine Reforms and the earlier Feodorian Reforms (well, that and some posts made in my Saxon Hercules thread). However, also the instability that plagued Russia in the 1680s and 1690s (and one could argue, all the...

So, what if Lizzie had died - I don't think Mary would've executed her half-sister (à la Jane Grey), but there are a bunch of other ways that Lizzie could've died (and those are just genuinely natural causes) - between 1553 and 1558. (And this is assuming that Mary manages no child as OTL), who...

So I've been reading Janice Hadlow's excellent A Royal Experiment, a biography on the marriages of the Hanoverian Royal line,just finished the chapter on George III's 1788-89 madness and its got me thinking; what if, instead of recovering, George III went permanently mad in 1789? How would...

What if Katherine of Aragon was with child when Arthur died, and that child was a daughter, would Prince Henry (Henry VIII) still become king? Or would he become regent? What is more likely?