AHC: Hanover-led North German Confederation

I know the name "North German Confederation" specifically refers to the Prussian-led group of German states before the German Empire was created. What I mean is, with any POD after 1700, make it so that the territory of the North German Confederation (plus or minus Prussia) ends up being led by the Electorate of Hanover instead of the Kingdom of Prussia.
 
If Hanover gets all the Western German territories that Prussia did in our time line after the Napoleonic Wars, perhaps because Napoleon loses in 1809 and Prussia has been neutral, would they have enough power to coax all the other Protestant powers into a confederation?

Admittedly a bit late because you could just have Frederick the great lose to Austria, but I wanted to make it a little trickier. And, the British might be powerful enough to get something like that to happen even with Hanover being in personal Union. A union which I think makes this very hard except at a time when Britain is at its height.
 
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Any way we can get the Congress of Vienna to restore Prussia's post-Third Partition borders and then cede Westphalia to Hanover? Then just have Victoria be born a dude so semi-Salic law doesn't kick in and separate Britain and Hanover, and have there be continued British -French tensions so that Britain eventually proposes the NGC under Hanoverian leadership to be a bulwark against renewed French expansionism.
 
1700's barely early enough for Queen Anne to have a surviving child, so we could avoid the Personal Union altogether. I don't know enough about eighteenth-century Germany to plan a course from there, but it's an intriguing question.
 
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