AHC: Wittelsbach King of Britain

Under what circumstances might it be possible for a member of the Wittelsbach Dynasty to become King of England or Great Britain?
 
In the civil war Rupert's brother Charles Louis was pro-parliamentary and spent time in the capital - if by some method the rest of the direct royal line couldnt take the throne or parliament post war wanted a king they might appoint him. For that matter Rupert himself is possible if they didnt have an heir.
 

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Alternatively, ensure James II keeps the throne, and let the Jacobite Succession go like OTL, you'll have a Wittelsbach King of England, Scotland and Ireland by 1918, simple.
 
Have Charles I die before having a child. His sister Elizabeth and her husband Frederick V of the Palatine become the new monarchs.
 
Have Charles I die before having a child. His sister Elizabeth and her husband Frederick V of the Palatine become the new monarchs.

Hmm, I wonder what effects this might have on the latter part of the 30 years war? Quick wiki check says that Charles I didn't even become king until after Frederick had been deprived of the Palatinate-but if Frederick becomes King of England in, say, the late 1620's, I can definately see him wholeheartedly allying with Gustavus Adolphus if the latter promises to support Frederick's claims to the Palatinate and Bohemia. Fun to imagine Frederick marching back into Germany alongside the Swedes, at the head of an English army. But, how much help could he be to Gustavus, and how would all this go down back in England?
 
Alternatively, ensure James II keeps the throne, and let the Jacobite Succession go like OTL, you'll have a Wittelsbach King of England, Scotland and Ireland by 1918, simple.

Butterflies, my friend, butterflies. James II remaining on the Anglo-Scots thrones means a different wife for his son, TTL's James III and everyone descended from him, who will all be different from his OTL descendants.
 
If you want the Sophia and the Jacobite succession to merge you have to marry Queen Elisabeth II to Francis of Bavaria, the Jacobite heir, I think the marriage is possible only if Francis of Bavaria agrees to convert from the Catholic church to the Anglican Church.
 
If you want the Sophia and the Jacobite succession to merge you have to marry Queen Elisabeth II to Francis of Bavaria, the Jacobite heir, I think the marriage is possible only if Francis of Bavaria agrees to convert from the Catholic church to the Anglican Church.

Duke Franz of Bavaria is openly gay.

There is always Franz's younger brother Max, although having been born in 1937, he is 11 years Elizabeth II's junior.

Max has 5 daughters, the eldest Sophie, will inherit the Jacobite claim in due course. Sophie is the wife of the Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein, she was born in 1967 but could have been by a long stretch a candidate for the Prince of Wales, she is only 6 years younger than the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

Sophie's son will one day be the ruling Prince, meaning for the first time since 1918, the Jacobite claimant to the British throne will also be part of a ruling royal dynasty.
 
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