Will Kürlich Kerl
Banned
Challenge: Have Hanover inherit either Netherlands or the Southern Netherlands.
Challenge: Have Hanover inherit either Netherlands or the Southern Netherlands.
The absolute closest I can think of is if somehow the Netherlands stays in personal union with England and becomes part of the Hannovarian succesion of that realm, but even that's unlikely to the point of being borderline ASB.
Maybe Charlotte of Wales marries William of the Netherlands, only has a daughter and that daughter marries the King/Crown Prince of Hanover? But that's really bordering ASB.
any inheriting has to be done pre 80-year war, after that the netherlands was a republic, so no inheriting. and the kingdom of the netherlands post 1815 is a parlementarian monarchy, with limited powers of the king, therefore again no inheriting it. the only option would be as others wrote already, that one of the oranges inherits hanover/ lüneburg, and that it becomes part of the netherlands/ united provinces.
Hm. There is a possibility. Needs a couple of PoDs though.
The legitimate line of Will III became extinct at his death. He left by will , all his titles , claims etc to John William Friso of Orange-Nassau, a cognatic descendant of Will II's grandfather.
After the death of Will III the five provinces went statdholderless. The other two provinces, Groningen and Friesland elected J W Friso as stadtholder . This line (of J W Friso), eventually reclaimed the other provinces, and the descendant of J W Friso became first King of the Netherlands.
J W Friso had, at his early death by drowning, one daughter Anna 1710-1777 m Prince of Baden; and one son William 1711-1751 (later Will IV of Orange), who married Anne the Princess Royal oldest daughter of Geo II of Britain.
Now, Geo only had one son who left legitimate issue (Frederick Prince of Wales, father of Geo III). One option would be if the line of Frederick failed. In that case the next heir would be Will IV of Orange, or his descendants.
Wouldn't this situation of Hannover inheriting via George II's daughter also fall foul of the Salic Law? Or did it allow a male of descent through the female line?
The other route wouldn't have this problem at least.
Wouldn't this situation of Hannover inheriting via George II's daughter also fall foul of the Salic Law? Or did it allow a male of descent through the female line?
The other route wouldn't have this problem at least.