This is an idea I've had for a while rolling around in my brain, decided to write it all down in very sketchy quality. Basically, the premise is that, through some kind of miracle or another, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester survives to adult age
without being retarded or disabled and succeeds Queen Anne.
July 1708, Wrangelska Palatet, Stockholm
This was it. Their first time meeting each other. William, Prince of Wales, waited with his entourage nervously in the Grand Hall of the magnificent palace, trembling. He had courted women before, something he loved doing, but this was the woman he was going to spend the remainder of his life with, and he'd only seen her in portraits and spoken to her through letters. He was a handsome young man of twenty, and she a beautiful young lady of the same age, and they were both the heirs to their kingdoms thrones, so they were largely in common grounds. However, William still felt remote from her and felt they should spend time getting to know each other. But he knew that being in a happy marriage was a luxury - the unions were for purely political reasons. He liked politics though; it was his favourite subject and one at which he excelled in. He just didn't understand why it had to always be the same, it couldn't change or differ from the norm. He was in the middle of once again contemplating this when he heard footsteps from the stairway above his head and he rushed out to the hall to meet his fiance.
She's beautiful! thought William
I just hope she is as agreeable as she looks!
And indeed she was. They were proclaimed and blessed in Stockholm by the letters patent of Princess Ulrika Eleonora's brother Charles XII, King of Sweden, who was away at war, before sailing back to England. They arrived in the Medway that July and were married on the 13th of August at Westminster Abbey. William then took Ulrika on a tour of England from Kent to Oxford, from Bath to Chester. Following this honeymoon, the couple got groovay; their first child, Elizabeth was born in March 1707, and their second child was born in December of that year - it was a boy! They named him George and the country celebrated. Then, in the January of 1708, they were offered by Anne a large apartment in Kensington Palace, which they accepted. The public loved Ulrika, mainly because she would venture outside of the Palace Gardens to talk with the locals and feed to the birds, much to the horror of her husband's staff, such was her naivety having grown up in the relatively different city of Stockholm.
In 1712, Anne took ill with pneumonia, something that was practically uncurable and, despite specialist care, died that July. With this, William was coronated on August 13, exactly seven years after his marriage. His full title, as proclaimed in Parliament that New Year's Day, was;
His Majesty William the Fourth, of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith.
His title, and that of his Queen, was to change quite drastically in 1718, but let's not worry about that for now. The King had more pressing matters to attend to.
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But yea, anyway, whadaya'll think? Comments are always always welcome
