AHC: Greek King Otto’s Fortunes are better

VadisDeProfundis

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The first modern Greek State had Otto I as it’s monarch, of the House of Wittelsbach. Despite his being a philhellene, and apparently loving Greek history and culture, his reign is regarded as, less than a success, in part because of his absolutism, in part because of his governments’ unsuccessful attempts to intervene in the Crimean War, and in part because of the legacy of the “Antivasileia”, that is, the regency by three Bavarian noblemen until 1835.

Could his reign have gone better? Was he in a position to change he fortunes of he young Greek state for the better? The fact that he couldn’t produce an heir is probably a problem, could that have been solved by him adopting a son, I think that such things have happened in history(I think it was in mexico, where that happened). What personal Handicaps led him to mistakes? What could he have done better? How could he have succeeded as King of Greece?
 
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