The idea is weird, but hopefully not ASB. Find a PoD that makes Queen Victoria not only Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India but alos (ruling) Empress of Germany, thus uniting Great Britain and Germany.
Who and the what now? Hadn't heard of that before.- Hanover becoming the leading state in the Unification of Germany (that's simple: she was asked by a delegation from Frankfurt to become Empress of the Germans in 1849 and accepts).
That did only happen in TTL. In oTL they asked the King of Prussia who did not like their proposition.Who and the what now? Hadn't heard of that before.
You are assuming that this will be the same German Empire as the one of OTL, but it is not.How come everyone is forgetting that Parliament and even the Reichstag would have a say in this union. I could see the British wouldn't want a Prussian ruler and may dissolve the union in favor of Edward.
And here you made the mistake assuming that two heirs would marry. If Victoria became heiress of the United Kingdom, the German Empire, Hanover and Brunswick she would have not been allowed to marry the heir to the throne of another German state.Let's suppose that Victoria was miffed at 'losing' the Hanover throne and subsequently persuaded the UK goverment to change the succession rules, giving equal rights to women.
Assuming that death dates remain the same in this ATL, there would have been a Victoria II on the throne from 22 January to 5 August 1901. Kaiser Bill would then ascend to to throne, very probably as William V.
So there could have been -
1901 Victoria II
1901-1941 William V
1941-1951 Frederick I (Freidrich Wilhelm) (or 'William VI')
1951-1994 Louis I (Louis Ferdinand) (more likely 'William VII' or 'William VI')
1994- Mary III (Marie Cecile).
Another assumption is that by 1994 the rules of succesion for Germany would have been as in the UK, hence 'Mary III' would also be Empress Marie of Germany.
And here you made the mistake assuming that two heirs would marry. If Victoria became heiress of the United Kingdom, the German Empire, Hanover and Brunswick she would have not been allowed to marry the heir to the throne of another German state.
You are assuming that this will be the same German Empire as the one of OTL, but it is not.
Really?
The ywill be similiar in TTl, but the German Empire will be different, because it will not be created by Bismarck and dominated by Prussia.Thus one may say that the German States - and the UK - are not the same as those of OTL and thus might not have the same rules remaining on the statute books.
My 'Really?" comment was not doubting what the situation was in OTL, just that things might well be different in an ATL.Yes. Take a look at the female monarchs in OTL. Most either did not marry or married a noble who had to chance to become a ruling monarch himself.
I understand. And that's the reason I believe that in TTL a marriage between Victoria and Frederick William will never happenMy 'Really?" comment was not doubting what the situation was in OTL, just that things might well be different in an ATL.