A Toast to the Royals

Hello all, long time lurker here and big fan of AH. I've finally decided to stop spectating and I'm going to begin by creating a rather ambitious history book TL. The POD: at the wedding ceremony of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Great Britain, an anarchist bombing plot to simultaneously off a number of European monarchs succeeds, abruptly ending the reigns of Alfonso and his royal guests, including Edward VIII, Nicolas II, and Frederick III. This shocking act of multiple regicide panics the various monarchies of Europe and sparks revolutionary fervor across the continent. The bombing plot is actually OTL; anarchist Mateu Morral lobbed a bomb at the procession of the same wedding, though he missed (killing only spectators and a few horses), and the numerous Heads of State were not in attendance. Of course I am open to thoughts, comments, constructive criticism and input from you! Work will begin shortly...
 
Anarchist revolution is unlikely, as when heads of state in OTL were killed, the State gets all reactionary with it and kicks that shit out of the Anarchist, any way, the sates most fucked by this are Spain and Russia, in Spain the the new king is 5 year old, Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria in Russia it's 2 year old haemophiliac Alexei Nikolaevich the fight for who will be his regent will be epic, his mother Alexandra Fyodorovna is the first pick but she's german and disliked by the Russian court, his uncle Michael is the other name that comes to mind,

in the Case of the UK, Edward VII will be followed by George V 4 years earlier then OTL, no big deal

one thing who's Frederick III? Frederick III the German Emperor had been dead for 18 years :confused:
 
Excuse me, I meant to say Wilhelm II, in doing the research for this I've simply come across too many monarchs :). And you're right, in this TL new monarchs assuming the throne is not a big deal. The big deal is the cause celebre that revolutionaries of all blends rally behind after this particular regicide (of unprecedented scale) succeeds.
 
Excuse me, I meant to say Wilhelm II, in doing the research for this I've simply come across too many monarchs :). And you're right, in this TL new monarchs assuming the throne is not a big deal. The big deal is the cause celebre that revolutionaries of all blends rally behind after this particular regicide (of unprecedented scale) succeeds.

Wilhelm i see that could be good for the world, no willie running a around fucking things up to show what a man he is, however his son in OTL was right wing, in TTL he's not unlikely to go over the right wing deep end, good help the left of germany, any way both Germany and the UK are to stable to over throw, Spain and Russia on the other hand could come apart, what i see is Civil war and chaos in Russia and Spain, high powered Right wing reaction in the UK and Germany, in Germany the Reichstag might be removed, SPD is doomed, as is Rosa Luxemburg who will most likely meet her fate 13 years early, in the UK the Labour party will die as it's lumped in with those who killed the king,
 
Very much what I was thinking; though lefties across the world are inspired, in cases where they cannot activate or do not pose immediate threats (such as the nations you mentioned, as well as the USA), the governments become very anti-red, very quickly. The direction I'm thinking of taking would see the nations in between seeing non-violent societal changes, which affect the future in their own way.
 
alright i like it chaos is my thing :)



in the Empire, in 1906 Gandhi was leading mass protest meetings of Indians in South Africa and the Zulu War was about to start, in India the Indian National Congress had just started a successful boycott of British goods, in Ireland in 1907 10,000 workers went on strike and the police mutinied in Belfast, and James Larkin and James Connolly are making Trade Unions
 
So basically the Russian And Spanish Civil Wars might come early or at the very least the power struggle in each country would cripple them, while the rest of the world would enter, for lack of a better term, a 2nd Period of Metternichian Reactionaryism.
 
So basically the Russian And Spanish Civil Wars might come early or at the very least the power struggle in each country would cripple them, while the rest of the world would enter, for lack of a better term, a 2nd Period of Metternichian Reactionaryism.

but with Empires :eek: it'll also stop WWI, BTW was Franz Joseph I there? the wild card is Austria–Hungary, it'll ether fly apart or pull together, same with the Ottoman Empire, oh god :eek: Abdul Hamid II is in power in 1906 :eek: that will not end well!
 
thoughts on what happens to the UK

new elections called in June, all 29 Labour MP lose there jobs, the Liberals are cut down to 147 seats, the Irish Parliamentary Party got 71, the rest is Conservative, the new PM is Arthur Balfour.
 
An excerpt from Mémoires d’Espoir by Marshal Charles de Gaulle
Chapter Four


Ironically, of all the events that occurred in my childhood that would later shape my adult life, the most significant occurred without my knowing or my participation. May 31st, 1906, the Great Regicide...oh, how great was this day? In terms of magnitude, yes, it was indeed great. Certainly, it was the latest Battle of Waterloo, the most recent Sack of Rome. But Lille was on the opposite end of the country, and the last thing I expected was to see the Great Patriot's bombs arriving on the street I grew up on.
In the textbooks my children read, somewhere in between the august portraits of Sebastien Faure and the inexplicable synthesis of the syndicalist and anarchist movements in France, one will find the desperate attempt of a zealous historian to paint this massacre as 'great'. As a man of power, many a time I found myself wondering if my tenure, and the tenures of my comrades across the continent, were to be cut short in the same fashion. Though my nation rose to its feet thanks to the progress-minded evil cunning of Mr. Morral, I cannot help but pity the shameful end that the highest of royalty met that day: men and women who had, for their entire lives, known only power and unconditional obedience, to be murdered anonymously, in the company of their extended family, at a ceremony marking unity and peace for all Europe...
Popular joke originating in the 1920's
What did Karl Liebknecht say at Emperor Wilhelm's wedding?
--When are we toasting the royalty?
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A short update to get things started. The next few updates will be in the history book format, chronicling the s**t hitting the fan in Europe and elsewhere.

ImperialVienna: That's pretty much the best way to describe it. Xenophobic fascists on one hand and bloody-regime-change-to-[enter popular local leftist ideology here] on the other, with a very large gap in between.

black angel: Chaos is great especially when its applied to studies regarding absolute facts, like history. Your input has been very helpful so far! The UK is going to be fun, as well as any nation with sizable disgruntled minorities.

As always, if you are reading this now, I would love to hear what you think!
 
Regarding your question, Franz Joseph I was not in attendance. In the next update I will have a complete list of the Royals that are killed. The list at this point is: Alfie 13, Ed 8, Willy 2 and Nicky 2; I will probably add in a few of their wives and maybe a Scandinavian or two (big family :)).

I am also constructing a POD happening a few years before the day of the bombing in order to make it more sinister and to have a good reason for the VIP guest list :D.
 
Europe is going to be an anarchistic playground for a while after this....

Looking forward to further installments.
 
Regarding your question, Franz Joseph I was not in attendance. In the next update I will have a complete list of the Royals that are killed. The list at this point is: Alfie 13, Ed 8, Willy 2 and Nicky 2; I will probably add in a few of their wives and maybe a Scandinavian or two (big family :)).

I am also constructing a POD happening a few years before the day of the bombing in order to make it more sinister and to have a good reason for the VIP guest list :D.
Hmm... If Franz Joseph I survives and holds on to power in Austria-Hungary, *circles around* 20th century Metternichian Austria!!!!!!!!!! Or this could totally screw the Habsburgs over, in which case I will have to loud protest and such.
 
Firstly welcome! New players bring a lot to this forum and some excellent ideas.

Looking at the basic premise of practically the whole of European leadership changing in a single act then the butterflies are enormous even without the massive rise in Anarchism. Other then that unfortunately I am useless just someone who will follow this thread with interest.

There are a number of excellent players on the Monarchy and the start of the 20th century. I would suggest “Grey Wolf” he always has some excellent ideas about European monarchies.

Goodluck!
 
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Europe is going to be an anarchistic playground for a while after this....
Or quite opposite, frozen tundra of rigid backward societies (as in Alex III's Russia after Alex II was killed by a terrorist). BTW, regicides alone are not going to bring Romanovs and Russia down. It lived through a regicide 20 years before and by 1906 revolution of 1905-1907 is past it's prime. I would say we would see tough couple of years in Russia as Michael the Terrible (regent for Alexei I in 1906-1922) would weed out revolutionaries with iron hand and lot of extrajudicial killings, but where would it go then is anyone's guess.
 
Kinky! :D

I like. Butterflies, hell, this is like the friggin' monarch migration he'a (pun most definitely intended).

"Anarchists Unite!"

"Yea! I'm with you!"

"Conformist!" (beat-down ensues)
 
Bump! :) this is a goodie,

all the new kings:

UK: George V age 41, married, Heirs: Edward(12), Albert(11), Mary(9), Henry(6), George(4), John(1)
Germany: Wilhelm III age 24, married, no Heirs (wife 5 mouths pregnant with a son)
Spain: Alfonso XIV age 5, potential regents, his father Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, his aunt Infanta Maria Teresa, his great-aunt Isabella, Princess of Asturias
Russia: Alexei I age 2, potential regents, his mother Alexandra Feodorovna, his uncle Grand Duke Michael

again i'll say Spain and Russia are in a bad spot, for one thing in Spain there is no clear regent, and in Russia the the Tsar is unlikely to live, but while he lives his hated mother will be very powerful and Grigori Rasputin was by 1906 working his way into the Empress' circles
 
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