Did you know that the Queen of England is a descendent of the Prophet Muhammad? Well, no one knows for sure if it's true, but it's possible. So I was thinking... Who else on history could be, in an alternate TL, an ancestor of Elizabeth II. Obviously, if you change the ancestors, it wouldn't be the same Elizabeth II of OTL, but let's just say it's a Queen of England with the same name and go on with it.
I chose Washington, Napoleon and Moctezuma for the title because all three of them sound like the crazy and improbable challenge I want, but feel free to choose another historical personality, like Cleopatra, Alexander, the Great, Julius Caesar, Mansa Musa, Peter II of Brazil, Genghis Khan, idk, anyone you think would be interesting as an ancestor, and then try to trace a line of descendence. Naturally, many POD's may be needed.
I'll try to exemplify it with George Washington:
First, Washington had no sons, so we'll have to change it. Of course, he was probably sterile, but let's say...
Lawrence Washington was born in 1784 (this year is commonly attributed to the birth of West Ford, an enslaved man speculated to be Washington's son)
Lawrance's daughter with Mary Fitzhugh, Anne Washington, born in 1810, would marry general Robert E. Lee in 1832
After winning de War of Secession (1861 - 1863), the Confederate States of America starts an expasionist agenda, annexing Cuba and intervening in Mexico's own Civil War. To appease to the mexican nationalists (at least some of them), a confederate congressman proposes an unusual plan: to make Maximilian I of Mexico the emperor of the Confederate Empire of America (don't ask questions, let's just go with it). The plan succeeds, and the empire shall still have a president, as the emperor has just a symbolic importance. Anyway, many american and mexican aristocrats receive nobility titles. As empress Carlota of Belgium had recently died at the trip to Mexico, and Maximilian was childless, congress also decide to marry him to the recently made duchess of Virginia, Eleanor Lee (1841), daughter of the confederate general and national hero Robert E. Lee, and great granddaughter of George Washington himself.
Maximilian and Eleanor would have many children, such as princess Mary, future Queen of Belgium, and prince August, the future Emperor Augustus I of America (1869)..
After the civil war that ended the CEA in 1882, the boy emperor Augustus I and his supporters would find refuge with his uncle Frazn Joseph I's court, in Vienna, where he married his cousin, the archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria. In 1899 August and Valerie would conceive archduchess Elizabeth Augusta. She was initially betroth to prince Edward of England, in a show of friendship betwen the two countries after the signing of the Treaty of Linz, that ensured mutual military defense in case of a european war. The marriage was , however, postponed by the war itself. Tragically, the prince would never see Elizabeth.
When Edward died in 1915, on the trenchs of France, Elizabeth was proposed to his brother, prince Albert (future King George VI of England). Their first child, John, born in 1919, died three years later of hemophilia. The death of the little prince shocked british society and put in doubt Elizabeth's abilty to bear healthy children, as some saw her as a inbred Habsburg descendent of an american rebel. It would be only in 1926 that their first daughter, named Elizabeth Alexandra, was born. Heir apparent, "Lilibet" would be crowned, in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
So, that's it. I would love to see more alternate ancestries!
As for any errors in spelling, english is not my first language, so I'm sorry
I chose Washington, Napoleon and Moctezuma for the title because all three of them sound like the crazy and improbable challenge I want, but feel free to choose another historical personality, like Cleopatra, Alexander, the Great, Julius Caesar, Mansa Musa, Peter II of Brazil, Genghis Khan, idk, anyone you think would be interesting as an ancestor, and then try to trace a line of descendence. Naturally, many POD's may be needed.
I'll try to exemplify it with George Washington:
First, Washington had no sons, so we'll have to change it. Of course, he was probably sterile, but let's say...
Lawrence Washington was born in 1784 (this year is commonly attributed to the birth of West Ford, an enslaved man speculated to be Washington's son)
Lawrance's daughter with Mary Fitzhugh, Anne Washington, born in 1810, would marry general Robert E. Lee in 1832
After winning de War of Secession (1861 - 1863), the Confederate States of America starts an expasionist agenda, annexing Cuba and intervening in Mexico's own Civil War. To appease to the mexican nationalists (at least some of them), a confederate congressman proposes an unusual plan: to make Maximilian I of Mexico the emperor of the Confederate Empire of America (don't ask questions, let's just go with it). The plan succeeds, and the empire shall still have a president, as the emperor has just a symbolic importance. Anyway, many american and mexican aristocrats receive nobility titles. As empress Carlota of Belgium had recently died at the trip to Mexico, and Maximilian was childless, congress also decide to marry him to the recently made duchess of Virginia, Eleanor Lee (1841), daughter of the confederate general and national hero Robert E. Lee, and great granddaughter of George Washington himself.
Maximilian and Eleanor would have many children, such as princess Mary, future Queen of Belgium, and prince August, the future Emperor Augustus I of America (1869)..
After the civil war that ended the CEA in 1882, the boy emperor Augustus I and his supporters would find refuge with his uncle Frazn Joseph I's court, in Vienna, where he married his cousin, the archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria. In 1899 August and Valerie would conceive archduchess Elizabeth Augusta. She was initially betroth to prince Edward of England, in a show of friendship betwen the two countries after the signing of the Treaty of Linz, that ensured mutual military defense in case of a european war. The marriage was , however, postponed by the war itself. Tragically, the prince would never see Elizabeth.
When Edward died in 1915, on the trenchs of France, Elizabeth was proposed to his brother, prince Albert (future King George VI of England). Their first child, John, born in 1919, died three years later of hemophilia. The death of the little prince shocked british society and put in doubt Elizabeth's abilty to bear healthy children, as some saw her as a inbred Habsburg descendent of an american rebel. It would be only in 1926 that their first daughter, named Elizabeth Alexandra, was born. Heir apparent, "Lilibet" would be crowned, in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
So, that's it. I would love to see more alternate ancestries!
As for any errors in spelling, english is not my first language, so I'm sorry