AHC: Gustav III lives longer

Let's say he somehow escaped the assassination because the plot was discovered before its execution. What effects would his prolonged life have on Sweden?
 
actually he did recieve an anonymous warning the night of the attempted assassination (he was only mortally wounded and first died two weeks later), but ignored the warning since he'd gotten several such warnings before ... so the easy POD would be to somehow make him trust the warning ... or maybe let the wound be survived (IIRC it was deadly since it was infected)
 
If I may add a humble opinion--it wouldn't even take that much for the killing to fail. The assassins were rank amateurs who came close to botching it--for example, they showed up at the costume ball, all wearing the same costume.

So they would recognize each other.

Needless to say, this attracted attention.
 
If I may add a humble opinion--it wouldn't even take that much for the killing to fail. The assassins were rank amateurs who came close to botching it--for example, they showed up at the costume ball, all wearing the same costume.

So they would recognize each other.

Needless to say, this attracted attention.
so it's easy to set up a situation where somebody realizes something's wrong and decides to do something about it before they try anything.
Then, now to the main question- what were Gustav III's domestic and foreign policies? Would Sweden be more prosperous with his prolonged life? Or would it be better off without him?
 
Gustav III was strongly pro-French - the Ancien Regime French that is and strongly anti-Russian.

If we pose that Gustav III lives until he's 70 (his father became 61, but was a notorious eater and drinker, his brother 69 and his son 58, although severely alcoholic) he'll die 1816.

I don't see Gustav III joining the second Legue of Armed Neutrality, which might push Sweden away from Denmark and Russia and into the arms of Britain. This might make the British consider using Sweden as a proxy to break up the second Legue of Armed neutrality. Sweden attacking Norway 1801?
 
Gustav III was strongly pro-French - the Ancien Regime French that is and strongly anti-Russian.

If we pose that Gustav III lives until he's 70 (his father became 61, but was a notorious eater and drinker, his brother 69 and his son 58, although severely alcoholic) he'll die 1816.

I don't see Gustav III joining the second Legue of Armed Neutrality, which might push Sweden away from Denmark and Russia and into the arms of Britain. This might make the British consider using Sweden as a proxy to break up the second Legue of Armed neutrality. Sweden attacking Norway 1801?
if Sweden did decide to attack Norway, would it gain some territory? or would things be status quo ante bellum?
 
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