AHC: Kaiserin Elizabeth II

Your task, should you choose to accept is to make our own Queen Lizzy the monarch and head of state of modern Germany.

Whatever the circumstances of such a monarchy, whether an outcome of WWII, or she somehow inherits the old imperial throne, just put her butt on there.

And it should be Kaiserin regnant, not consort.
 
:) I'm some 50 years away from this result in my A.S.B time line need to complete a political union between Britain and Russia first, the French join after the fall of the third republic during the economic crash following the first world war. The imperial parliament moves round assorted nation states that for the empire (British empire pre 1900 + Russia + France and her colonies) after the second world war Italy and Germany ask for and receive permission to join accepting the monarch as head of state....
NB This is a totally A.S.B solution and I look forward to seeing if anyone can find a non A.S.B method.
 
A personal union after all the male Hohenzollerns are killed by the Nazis and George marries a Hohenzollern princess? Though that would both require an Elizabeth I of Germany, and mean that the Elizabeth we know and love would be a different person.
 
Americans nuke Germany on ground and then Germany is so ruined that it wouldn't be anymore viable nation and Germans decide call George VI as their emperor and when George dies, Elizabeth becomes empress.

I know, pretty ASB.
 
Your task, should you choose to accept is to make our own Queen Lizzy the monarch and head of state of modern Germany.

Whatever the circumstances of such a monarchy, whether an outcome of WWII, or she somehow inherits the old imperial throne, just put her butt on there.

And it should be Kaiserin regnant, not consort.

Very very hard. In the first place, 'Er Maj was not born till 1926, long after the German monarchy was abolished. So the PoD has to revive the German monarchy after 1926, which is very hard. (And no, butterflies cannot be avoided - it must be "our own Queen Lizzy", not some analog with the same name.)

Next, one has to have that throne come to her - and she is not even remotely descended from the Hohenzollerns.

However - I'll take one stab at it: there are numerous failures of republican democracy, empowering more fascist and Communist dictators. In some cases, monarchy either thwarts the dictatorship or is destroyed fighting it. (Things Happen to reverse the OTL bad examples of Italy and Spain.) The dictatorships cause a general war in Europe, and at the end of it, Britain with some minor allies has defeated all the Bad Guys.

The war ends around 1960. Elizabeth has been a heroic not-just-symbolic war leader for Britain; she personally resolved parliamentary crises, and at least once insured the selection as PM of a fighter instead of a surrenderer. She was seriously wounded in an air raid, and lost one leg because she insisted that some injured children and soldiers be treated ahead of her; at the end of the war she raised great sums to provide for the orphans and cripples left by the war throughout Europe.

There is a general consensus that without a monarch, democracy is unreliable. Also, to prevent future wars, Europe becomes a federal union. Elizabeth is made head of state, using the title "Empress". Those countries which have no monarchy of their own nominate Elizabeth as their local monarch, including Germany.
 
Americans nuke Germany on ground and then Germany is so ruined that it wouldn't be anymore viable nation and Germans decide call George VI as their emperor and when George dies, Elizabeth becomes empress.

I know, pretty ASB.

Very very hard. In the first place, 'Er Maj was not born till 1926, long after the German monarchy was abolished. So the PoD has to revive the German monarchy after 1926, which is very hard. (And no, butterflies cannot be avoided - it must be "our own Queen Lizzy", not some analog with the same name.)

Next, one has to have that throne come to her - and she is not even remotely descended from the Hohenzollerns.

However - I'll take one stab at it: there are numerous failures of republican democracy, empowering more fascist and Communist dictators. In some cases, monarchy either thwarts the dictatorship or is destroyed fighting it. (Things Happen to reverse the OTL bad examples of Italy and Spain.) The dictatorships cause a general war in Europe, and at the end of it, Britain with some minor allies has defeated all the Bad Guys.

The war ends around 1960. Elizabeth has been a heroic not-just-symbolic war leader for Britain; she personally resolved parliamentary crises, and at least once insured the selection as PM of a fighter instead of a surrenderer. She was seriously wounded in an air raid, and lost one leg because she insisted that some injured children and soldiers be treated ahead of her; at the end of the war she raised great sums to provide for the orphans and cripples left by the war throughout Europe.

There is a general consensus that without a monarch, democracy is unreliable. Also, to prevent future wars, Europe becomes a federal union. Elizabeth is made head of state, using the title "Empress". Those countries which have no monarchy of their own nominate Elizabeth as their local monarch, including Germany.

Ya. Something like one of these two. Germany (and probably much of Europe) has to be pretty heavily discredited, and the UK has to be the primary inspiration for European revival.
 
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