AHC\WI: Portuguese Stuarts

Challenge: With a POD after January 1st, 1689, have the Stuarts become monarchs of Portugal.

What happens?

Next to impossible really. Portugal was dependent on British support, so to gain a Stuart monarch we would have to have a heiress of Portugal marry one of the exiled Jacobites. Again practically impossible. Your best bet is to have Catherine of Braganza had children, while her brother only has his unhealthy daughter survive. She dies childless and Catherine becomes Queen, with her son as the heir. So we either have a personal union or a second son inherits Portugal and the older Britain.
 
Next to impossible really. Portugal was dependent on British support, so to gain a Stuart monarch we would have to have a heiress of Portugal marry one of the exiled Jacobites. Again practically impossible. Your best bet is to have Catherine of Braganza had children, while her brother only has his unhealthy daughter survive. She dies childless and Catherine becomes Queen, with her son as the heir. So we either have a personal union or a second son inherits Portugal and the older Britain.

It's a marriage down - but maybe marry La Sempre Noïva (Isabel Luiza of Beira) to the duke of Berwick. It precludes a union between Portugal and England. And then make Pedro II die without a son. ASB I know, but unless Bonnie Prince CHarlie marries Maria I of Portugal, I'm not sure how else to get a Stuart king in Lisbon.
 
Wasn't Berwick's son from his first marriage married to a member of the Portuguese royal family - I can't remember if it was a bastard branch or if it was too far down that the chances of them ever inheriting the throne was so small.
 
Wasn't Berwick's son from his first marriage married to a member of the Portuguese royal family - I can't remember if it was a bastard branch or if it was too far down that the chances of them ever inheriting the throne was so small.

Not as far as I can tell. The second Duke married a Spanish Dowager.
 
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