AHC: Make the Queen of England a descendent of George Washington, Napoleon or Moctezuma

[Anja]

To mess about the Queens lineage, the easiest way to insert unusual ancestries is via her mother.
Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon was not royal, "only" the daughter of a peer.

Albert's freedom in choosing Elizabeth, not a member of a royal family, though the daughter of a peer, was considered a gesture in favour of political modernisation; previously, princes were expected to marry princesses from other royal families.

It's not hard to imagine a young lady, born at the turn of the century, whose mother (grandmother or great-grandmother) is:

an American heiress descending from a hypothetical child of Washington.​

a descendant of one of Napoleons illegitime children (e.g. a surviving child of Comte Alexandre Colonna-Walewski and Lady Catherine Montagu).​

a Spanish noble woman descending from Moctezuma.​

someone other.​

Sons of the peerage couldn't marry anyone, but the choices were much greater than with royalty.

 

[Mister Abbadon]

The real challenge is to get all three.

 

[Peg Leg Pom]

Louis Napoleon Prince Imperial survives the Anglo Zulu war and continues to serve in the British Army. He marries into the British Aristocracy and retires as a General. In the 1920's one of his Grand Daughters meets Prince Albert the Duke of York and he falls for her instead of Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon.

 

[Kellan Sullivan]

Louis Napoleon Prince Imperial survives the Anglo Zulu war and continues to serve in the British Army. He marries into the British Aristocracy and retires as a General. In the 1920's one of his Grand Daughters meets Prince Albert the Duke of York and he falls for her instead of Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon.

Not bloody likely. The British nobility and army were staunchly against what they saw as Lieutenant Carey being pulled up for Loulou's errors. His aunt, Paça, was married to the duke of Berwick/Leria/Fitzjames though...

 

[FouDuRoy]

Neither Louis-Napoleon nor Marry Eugenia were Napoleon's descendants.

The public went into hysterics at the thought of her marrying the prince de Joinville (who offered to convert) because he was a) Catholic and b) French.

I did not know that.
That's quite funny considering how much the Orleans princes always sided with English Protestants against the Jacobites and the Bourbons.

 

[Kellan Sullivan]

I did not know that.
That's quite funny considering how much the Orleans princes always sided with English Protestants against the Jacobites and the Bourbons.

The Régent was anti-James III (but that was a personal difference that even the Régent's mother thought was ridiculous - Régent's issue was that James was allowed an armchair (as a sovereign) while the Régent as a mere prince du sang was not) but I'm unaware that any of the other Orléans' were anti-Jacobite

 

[Lalli]

The real challenge is to get all three.

Tricky but not impossible. George Washginton never goes sterile and he marries someone Moctezuma's descendant. Napoleon's child moves to United States and convert to Protestantism. Then he/she marries Washington's child/grandchild. Then their child on some reason moves to UK and marries to British nobility. Then eventually prince Bertie (future George VI) marries this descendant of Moctezuma, Washington and Napoleon. Yes, pretty implausible but could work.

 

[FouDuRoy]

The Régent was anti-James III (but that was a personal difference that even the Régent's mother thought was ridiculous - Régent's issue was that James was allowed an armchair (as a sovereign) while the Régent as a mere prince du sang was not) but I'm unaware that any of the other Orléans' were anti-Jacobite

The interests of the Hanovers and the Orleans were linked by the treaties of Utrecht.
In exchange for French and Spanish supports, a restored Jacobite king of England would've probably accepted to revise the terms of these treaties, weakening the Orleans' position.
You know ... The stuff about Philip V's renunciations.
Of course, the importance of that point fluctuated in time, depending on the number of princes in the eldest Bourbon branch and later on ... other things (like revolutions).