A hindu princess for Prince Edward

Britain was so unrepentantly racist that Victoria had an Indian god-daughter? Victor Duleep Singh married an English noblewoman, with the intervention of the royal family, so it's not an insurmountable hurdle. The main problem is that a marriage to an Indian princess would yield no diplomatic fruits, and these weren't the days when royals married for love.

True, but Prince Victor Duleep Singh (b. 1866) and Lady Anne Coventry never had children. According to Anita Anand's biography of Victor's sister, Sophia Duleep Singh, Queen Victoria told the couple they could not be allowed to have children.

I think it might work more effectively to have Victor (or his younger brother Freddie or have the youngest brother Eddie recover from the illness that killed him) fall in love with one of King Edward VII's daughters, Louise, Princess Royal (b. 1867) or Victoria (b. 1868), probably Maud, later Queen of Norway, (b. 1869) is not such a good choice unless you're trying for the maximum number of butterflies, or Princess Alice's daughter, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1866), or Prince Alfred's daughter, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1878), or Princess Helena's daughters, Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1870) or Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1872).

But again, whether the couple will be allowed to have biracial children, especially while Queen Victoria is alive seems unlikely.
 
The easiest way to butterfly the Baroness de Fortisson may well be to have Edward go to Gottingen (sp?) instead of Luneburg (Duke of York intervened against the former. Have him become infatuated with India rather than Canada. Have him go ANYWHERE but Geneva the summer/fall of 1789 and avoid meeting the Baron and Baroness.....(not that the Baron seemed to care, I believe I wrote he let their daughter go with "Mme de Saint-Laurent" (a name she apparently found and kept, she was born to Mongenet - or if they weren't married, she was a Pussot.) So, have him avoid Geneva, develop a craving for India (perhaps a friend who's been there but seen no fighting?) Ed goes to India, meets the Princess love of his life, she converts (at least publicly) and brings her and her 'converted' entourage to England where the monarch (after meeting her) allows them to wed in a fit of ?????? (I suppose common sense is out, I believe we're talking G3, so maybe sentimentality or precognition).
 
But again, whether the couple will be allowed to have biracial children, especially while Queen Victoria is alive seems unlikely.

But the POD given seems to be Victoria's father being the one falling in love with an Indian princess. So technically, alt-Victoria would be half-Indian.
 
But the POD given seems to be Victoria's father being the one falling in love with an Indian princess. So technically, alt-Victoria would be half-Indian.

Whoops, you're right. If alt-Victoria makes it to the throne, there might be an encouragement of the Duleep Singhs marrying into the British nobility and royalty.

What Indian princesses would be the right age, though?
 
True, but Prince Victor Duleep Singh (b. 1866) and Lady Anne Coventry never had children. According to Anita Anand's biography of Victor's sister, Sophia Duleep Singh, Queen Victoria told the couple they could not be allowed to have children.
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But again, whether the couple will be allowed to have biracial children, especially while Queen Victoria is alive seems unlikely.

Given that Vicky herself hated childbirth but loved sex with Albert, I'd take both of these with a grain of salt. She was rather pragmatic when she needed to be.

Then again, today we still haven't perfected birth control, so it's an unenforceable 'wish' of hers if she allows them to wed. By allowing the marriage, she is embracing (perhaps reluctantly) the idea that God might see fit to bless them with children.
 
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