royalty

In OTL, Catherine of Braganza, Queen Consort of England was said to have miscarried three times at the very least, and the only surviving legitimate children Charles ever had were with his many mistresses. Thus after his death, Charles's younger brother, James Stuart, Duke of York succeeded him...

In 15 of November 1581 Ivan IV (the Terrible/Formidable/Fearsome) ended up causing his daughter in-law to miscarriage (she was the third one, as he sent the 2 first to convents for no reason) and ended up having a fight with his estranged son, beating him in the head and causing him to colapse...

What if Charles August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg had not died in a horse riding accident in 1810, thus securing his position as crown prince of Sweden and butterflying away the adoption of French general Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte as heir? Considering that Charles August was...

Isabel was the last Crown Princess of Brazil until 1889 when the monarchy was overthrown. When her father was away she became his regent and acted on his behalf. She became very popular in her country when she heavily supported and pushed a law through parliament outlawing Slavery in the...

Most of Queen Victoria's children married relatively poor princes / princesses - excluding Affie.What were the richest princes / princesses possible for the childrens of Queen Victoria?

In 1878, Diptheria swept over the Hessian court at Darmstadt, ultimately killing Grand Duchess Alice and her youngest child Princess Marie. IOTL these deaths permanently affected the second youngest Hessian princess, Alix, whose morose personality would become infamous during the twilight of...

The challenge is simple. Napoléon set to remaking Europe's monarchs in his own image by appointing his siblings (as well as some other lucky non-relations) as kings of various states. However, the various lines of their legitimate descent have petered out (if I'm not mistaken it's only Caroline...

WI Princess Maria of Romania had survived? Could she become Queen Reign of Romania? What kind of Queen could she have been? Who would she marry?

Imagining a scenario where Eddy marries in 1887 or 1888 with Alexandra of Greece, Sophie or Victoria of Prussia and George marries between 1891-1893 with Alice Hesse, Margareth of Prussia or Marie Louise of Schleswig Holstein with which real candidate May of Teck could marry??

Info: I attempted a TL of similar nature roughly a year ago but later abandoned it. This timeline will be significantly more in depth and a little more realistic The Early Years: Mary I (1542-1562) "It started with a lass, it'll end with a lass," - James V of Scotland's reaction to being told...

One of the key turning points in English history for myself was the death of Henry Stuart in 1612. Strong, virile, and everything the heir to a throne should be, few suspected that in 1612, Henry Stuart would die of typhoid fever at the young age of 18 years old. It makes you wonder what would...

While William IV of the UK had several illegitimate children with his mistress Dorothea Jordan, none of his legitimate children with Queen Adelaide survived childhood. The question is how would history have been affected if four of theses children survived. There would be not Victoria and...

This is something I was thinking of earlier, and I'm not really sure where it should go, so if the Mods can help in that regard, I'd be grateful. In their day, some royals suffered from things that would be reasonably easy to cure/control nowadays - Rudolf of Austria's depression or Queen...