Albion, where the Sun never set

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The Empresses and Emperors of Albion from 1878 to the present
There have been a total of 13 Albish monarchs since the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland on May 1st, 1707, England and Scotland had been under personal union since March 24th, 1603. In January 1801, the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland merged, which resulted on the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. On May 1st, 1878, the United Kingdom and her colonies and territories were reorganized into the Empire of Albion, and the main title of the monarch was amended to the “Emperor of the Isles of Albion and Her Lands Beyond the Sea”, most commonly known as “Emperor of Albion”, although the original title of “King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland” remains as a subsidiary of it in light of the federative nature of the empire.

Empress Victoria had ruled the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland since June 20th, 1837. She became the Empress of Albion after the reorganization of the empire on May 1st, 1878. Her total reign lasted for a total of 70 years and 270 days, being the longest reign of an Albish monarch in history in this case, but being the second longest of the empire proper.

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The Monarchs of Brazil – House of Braganza (1822-present)
1822 to 1831: Pedro I (1798-1834), founder of the nation
1831 to 1892: Pedro II (1825-1892), son of the previous
1892 to 1920: Afonso I (1845-1920), son of the previous
1920 to 1961: Victoria (1874-1961), daughter of the previous
1961: Afonso II (1901-1961), son of the previous, male-line great-grandson of Pedro II
1961 to 1963: Pedro III (1904-1963), brother of the previous
1963 to present: Isabel (1930), daughter of the previous
The heir presumptive and his contestants, showing also their relation to the Empress​
- Dom Pedro Maria, Duke of Salvador (1962), nephew through Dona Maria Carmelita (1931-1970) and adopted son​
- Dona Maria Josefa (1938), daughter of Pedro III, and her son, King José II of Paraguay (1971)​
- Queen Isabel Amália of Uruguay (1964), niece through Dona Antônia (1929-2016)​
- Dona Luisa Carla, Duchess of Porto Seguro (1969), niece through Dona Maria Joaquina (1941-2000)​
- Dom Carlos Luís of Bolivia (2002), great-grandnephew through Dona Maria Leocádia (1944-2014)​
The Monarchs of (modern) Japan – Yamato Dynasty (1867-present)
1867 to 1909: Meiji/Mutsuhito (1852-1909), first emperor with real political power in centuries
1909 to 1928: Taisho/Yoshihito (1879-1928), son of the previous
1928 to 1960: Showa/Hirohito (1906-1960), son of the previous
1960 to 1968: Ikibo/Matsuhito (1929-1968), son of the previous
1968 to 2012: Heisei/Naohito (1935), brother of the previous, abdicated and is now known as “Emperor Emeritus”
2012 to 2018: Reiwa/Hisahito (1960-2018), son of the previous
2018 to present: Keiun/Ashikaga (1997), daughter of the previous, married to an Arisugawa-no-Miya cousin
As the emperor is pregnant at the moment but hasn’t yet given birth, her sister her children are the heirs​
- Maiko, Crown Princess Taifu of Japan (1999), married to a Fushimi-no-Miya cousin​
- Katsuhito, Prince Mori (2019), son of the above​
- Kimihito, Prince Tsugu (2019), brother of the above​
The Monarchs of (modern) Egypt – House of Muhammad Ali (1805-present)
1805 to 1848: Muhammad Ali (1769-1849), established the dynasty, Wali of Egypt and Sudan, abdicated
1848: Ibrahim (1789-1848), presumed son of the previous
1848 to 1854: Abbas Helmi I (1812-1854), half-nephew of the previous
1854 to 1863: Sa’id (1822-1863), son of Muhammad Ali
1863 to 1879: Isma’il I (1830-1895), son of Ibrahim, Khedive of Egypt and Sudan from 1867 onward, deposed
1879 to 1902: Tewfik (1852-1902), son of the previous
1902 to 1905: Abbas Helmi II (1874-1905), son of the previous, deposed
1905 to 1947: Isma’il II (1892-1945), half-brother of the previous, Emperor/Sultan of Egypt from 1929 onward
1947 to 1949: Fuad I (1895-1949), brother of the previous
1949 to 1996: Hussein (1912-1996), son of the previous
1996 to present: Fuad II (1940), son of the previous
- Isma’il, Crown Prince of Egypt (1968), son of the above​
- Prince Abbas of Egypt (1992), son of the above​
- Prince Farouk of Egypt (2014), son of the above​
The Monarchs of the Nordic Federation – House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1927-present)
1927 to 1976: Margrethe II (1899-1976), King of Denmark from 1916
1927 to 1972: Magnus VIII (1897-1972), King of Norway from 1924
1976 to 1981: Christian XI (1922-1981), son of both, also King of Denmark
1981 to present
: Margrethe III (1948), daughter of the previous, also Queen of Denmark
- Eric Christian, Crown Prince of the North and Denmark and Prince of Thurn und Taxis (1976)​
- Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Thurn und Taxis (2003)​
The (modern) Monarchs of Portugal – House of Braganza-etc. (1816-present)
1816 to 1826: João VI (1767-1826), Prince Regent since 1799, King of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves until 1825
1826: Pedro IV (1798-1834), son of the previous, also Emperor of Brazil, abdicated
1826 to 1828: Maria II (1819-1853), daughter of the previous, usurped (first reign)
1828 to 1834: Miguel I (1802-1866), son of João VI and fiancée and usurper of Maria II, deposed
1834 to 1853: Maria II (1819-1853), reinstate to the throne (second reign)[1]
1853 to 1865: Pedro V (1837-1865), son of the previous
1865 to 1909: Carlota I (1863-1909), daughter of the previous
1909 to 1923: Cedrico I (1853-1924), husband and co-ruler of Carlota I since 1887, abdicated
1923 to 1928: Pedro VI (1905-1928), grandson of the previous, nominal co-ruler of Cedrico I since 1909
1928: Pedro VII (1906-1953), brother of the previous, abdicated to enter the church
1928 to 1970: Manuel II (1908-1970), brother of the previous
1970 to present: Pedro VIII (1944), son of the previous
- Infante Manuel, Prince Royal of Portugal (1986), son of the above​
- Infante João, Prince of Beira (2004), son of the above​
[1] Maria II’s husband, Fernando II (1816-1885), also was her co-monarch after 1837, abdicating in 1853 upon her death
The Monarchs of Mexico – Houses of Iturbide (1822-23), Hapsburg (1864-1988) and Hapsburg-Iturbide (1988-present)
1822 to 1823: Augustín I (1783-1824), founder and sole ruler of the First Mexican Empire
The First Interregnum, 1823 to 1864
1864 to 1891: Maximilian I (1832-1891), given the throne of Mexico, married the half-sister of Pedro II of Brazil
1891 to 1892: Maximilian II (1853-1892), son of the previous, married a French princess
1892 to 1925: Maria Amália (1869-1925), daughter of the previous, married a son of Emperor Arthur of Albion
1925 to 1933: Augustín II (1898-1949), son of the previous, deposed
The Second Interregnum (also known as “The Times of Shame”), 1933 to 1959
1959 to 1961: Augustín III (1919-1961), son of the previous, assassinated by a republican revolutionary
The Third Civil War, 1961 to 1970
1961 to 1988: Maria Josepha (1940-1988), daughter of the previous, married Salvador Alonzo de Iturbide
1988 to 1995: Maximilian III (1960-1995), son of the previous, assassinated by cartels
1995: Joaquín (1987), son of the previous, abdicated in name of his mother-in-law and aunt
1995 to present: Maria Antônia (1961), daughter of Maria Josepha, ended the cartel problem, permanently
- Maria Carmelita, Grand Princess of Maya (1983-2007), married her first cousin and retired emperor, Joaquin​
- Augustín Maximilian, Grand Prince of Maya (2007)​
The Monarchs of France d’Outre-mer and the Mali – House of Bonaparte (1871-present)
1871 to 1873: Napoleon III (1808-1873), Emperor of the French (in Europe) since 1852
1873 to 1904: Napoleon IV (1856-1904), son of the previous
1904 to 1929: Napoleon V (1883-1929), son of the previous
1929 to 1966: Napoleon VI (1912-1966), son of the previous, Caliph of Mali from 1948 onward
The War of the Malian Succession, 1966 to 1975, which saw Napoleons VII to X rule
1966 to 1979: Napoleon XI (1930-1979), son of the previous, won the civil war, usurped
1979 to present: Napoleon XII (1934), brother of the previous, committed a coup d’état
- Louis Napoléon, Prince Imperial of the Mali (1954), son of the above​
- François Napoléon, Prince of Niani (1975), son of the above​
- Prince Marcel Napoléon, Duke of Timbuktu (1998), son of the above​
- Princess Marceline of Timbuktu (2020), daughter of the above​
The Monarchs of Germany – House of Hohenzollern (1871-present)
1871 to 1888: Wilhelm I (1797-1888), King of Prussia since 1861
1888: Friedrich I (1831-1888), son of the previous
1888 to 1944: Wolfgang I (1859-1944), son of the previous
1944 to 1948: Friedrich II (1882-1948), son of the previous
1948 to 1952: Wolfgang II (1906-1952), son of the previous
1952 to 1955: Friedrich III (1928-1955), son of the previous
1955 to 1956: Wilhelm II (1950-1956), son of the previous
1956 to 1990: Friederike IV (1944-1990), sister of the previous, officially a male
1990 to present: Wolfgang III (1980), son of the previous
- Friedrich, Crown Prince of Prussia (2000), son of the above​
- Prince Heinrich of Germany (2000), twin brother of the above​
The Monarchs of (modern) Russia – House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov/Romanov (1796-present)
1796 to 1801: Paul I (1754-1801), son of Catherine II and Peter III of Russia, assassinated
1801 to 1825: Alexander I (1777-1825), son of the previous
December 1825: Konstantin (1779-1831), brother of the previous, uncrowned, abdicated the throne
1825 to 1855: Nicholas I (1796-1855), younger brother of the two previous
1855 to 1881: Alexander II (1818-1881), son of the previous
1881 to 1901: Alexander III (1845-1901), son of the previous
1901 to 1922: Nicholas II (1866-1938), son of the previous, abdicated
1922 to 1942: Ivan VII (1895-1942), son of the previous, Ruler of Muscovy mostly)
1942 to 1985: Fyodor II (1914-1985), son of the previous, Ruler of Russia from 1959 onward
1985 to present: Vasily V (1938), son of the previous
- Grand Duke Vladimir, Tsesarevich of Russia (1962), son of the above​
- Grand Duchess Ekaterina, Grand Princess of the Rus’ (1985), daughter of the above​
- Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia and Bulgaria (2008), son of the above​
The Monarchs of (modern) Ethiopia – Solomonid Dynasty, Shewa branch (1889-present)
1889 to 1913: Menelik II (1844-1913), male-line Solomonid, usurped Yohannes IV, King of Shewa from 1866
1912 to 1952: Salomon IV (1891-1952), son of the previous, grandson-in-law of Yohannes IV
1952 to 1978: Yohannes V (1905-1978), son of the previous
1978 to 1995: Dawit IV (1948-1995), grandson of the previous
1995 to 2009: Salomon V (1974-2009), son of the previous
2009 to present: Menelik III (1995), son of the previous
- Princess Judith (2011), daughter of the above. Queen of Shewa since June 2020​
The Monarchs of the Hapsburg Imperium – House of Hapsburg (1887-present)
1887 to 1915: Franz Joseph I (1830-1915), Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary since 1848
1915 to 1927: Ludwig I (1866-1927), son of the previous
1927 to 1932: Maximilian I (1890-1932), son of the previous
1932 to 1935: Ludwig II Franz (1930-1925), son of the previous
1935 to 1966: Franz Joseph II (1894-1966), uncle of the previous
1966 to 2002: Maximilian II (1921-2002), son of the previous
2002 to 2005: Franz Joseph III (1963-2005), grandson of the previous
2005 to 2011: Karl I (1984-2008), son of the previous
2011 to present: Viktor (1985), brother of the previous
- Archduke Franz Ludwig, Imperial Crown Prince (2006)​
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The Theaters and Fronts of the First World War, Europe and North America
So, I finally realized just how astonishingly large I made this conflict be, so here are the fronts that occurred in Europe and North America, which, in light of the sheer size of this thing and my own status as not being that well versed on OTL WWI, will be the only ones to be posted until second notice. Details of the fronts can be asked, but I won't promised a version like this one for the others unless I'm really into it and inspired

EUROPE
The Western Front
Started on the 2nd of May 1910, the Western Front went through three phases during the war:
The initial advance by France, who managed to get Germany by surprise by invading in a two-pronged attack through Alsace-Lorraine and the Low Countries, during the first week of the advance Belgium and Luxembourg fell to the French, their governments, leaded by Queen Stéphanie[1] and Grand Duke Guillaume[2], fleeing to Germany; and in the following months (as the advance continued in some way until October) the French managed to take control of most of the lands west of the Rhine, together with managing to cross into southern Baden before their advance was stopped at the battles of Mainz, Bonn and the Black Forest, stabilizing the front.
Following the initial advance, what followed was the time of the trenches, which lasted from late 1910 all the way to 1919, during it the war was one of attrition as the frontlines rarely changed positions. It was also during it that some of the most brutal and devastating battles in the war occurred, with the most memorable one being the Battle of the Rhine (technically the third or second one, but is mostly remembered by that name), which was a weeks-long orgy of mindless suffering and destruction around the western banks of the Rhine from Dusseldorf to Coblenz, and saw during it the single most deadly day in the Western Front[3].
The final phase was the German retaliation that started in mid-to-late 1919, when, after an uprising in Belgium forced to French to divert troops, the Germans took the opportunity to break the lines to the north, starting a slow but sure advance that lasted for the remainder of the war, retaking most of the northern Rhineland as well as Belgium[4] and by the time of the armistice having already reached the border. It was also during it that most of the aerial fighting of the front was seen as airplanes were introduced to the battlefield, with the Battle of Antwerp in April of 1920 being remarked on the fighting in the sky[5].
During the final phase, there was also a short comeback by the French during the 100 Days Offensive, which saw them managing to regain large swathes of land in Belgium (as well as some in Southern Germany) in what was a hollow victory, as most of those territories taken were not strategically important and caused the tiring army to finally be depleted of reserves.
Besides the land, the front also saw fighting on the see as the French and the Albish battled for the control of the Channel[6] in a three-years-long battle which involved the widespread use of naval mines and torpedoes, sinking hundreds of ships before Albion rose victorious, cementing her control over the Channel and taking control of both Dunkirk and Calais[7].
[1] Daughter-in-law of Emperor Franz Ferdinand, having been married to Crown Prince Rudolph before his suicide, Stéphanie I of Belgium was originally a minor Belgian princess until 1905, when her uncle, Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, died without male heirs, causing the Belgian Succession Crisis as, with his death, the last salic descendant of Leopold I outside of the king died, which, seeing as the monarchy barred female heirs until then, meant that the throne was heirless. Chosen over her older sister, Louise (and her children), as the Belgian heir (in light of her familial connections to most of the states around her and the major states of Europe), Stéphanie I ascended to the throne in 1907 with her father’s unexpected death, and would later be succeed by her daughter, Stéphanie II
[2] Dying in exile in 1912 (and being posthumously buried in Luxembourg), Guillaume was, besides being the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, also Prince-Elector William II of Nassau in the German Empire (originally a Duchy, elevated when his family gained the Grand Ducal throne), and, upon his death, the two thrones, per the 1906 Moresnet Agreement, were divided between his children, with his eldest daughter, Marie-Adélaïde, inheriting Nassau while his second, Charlotte, inherited Luxembourg
[3] July 8th, 1916, it saw the deaths of around 65 thousand people
[4] The Belgian Government returned to Brussels on the Christmas of 1920, having beforehand stayed in Aachen and Frankfurt
[5] The aerial battles of the front were marked by the actions of Freiherr Manfred von Richthofen (also known as “Manfred, Duke of Kleinburg and Everett” following his marriage), who became known for his incredible and deadly talent as a fighter pilot (having a kill-count on the hundreds) as much as for the garish purple color of his aeroplane
[6] Lasting from 1912 to 1915, the Battle of the Channel was a front all on itself almost, and saw naval and amphibian battles both on the sea as well as on the shorelines of England, Normandy, the Channel Island and Brittany; many people credit the length of the battle as beign both due to Albion’s other matters outside of the Channel and that from 1911 to 1914 the battle was made of smaller naval skirmishes following the brutal encounter of All Hallows’ Eve. It is quite interesting, but the war did not, as both the French and Albish expect, damage the Albish’s access to the world, as the larger Atlantic was mostly under their and the German’s control, with Albion controlling the above water with their navy while the Germans held the rule of submarine (the saying “When you see His Majesty’s Ship’s, you’ll not ever see the Kaiser’s fleet” begun among the members of the Navy during the war)
[7] Both cities became basically two small frontlines, as they were surrounded by trenches dug up by the French in their retreat

The Eastern Front
Fought mainly between Russia and Germany[1], the East, unlike the West, saw a much greater change and fluidity on the lines as the front was constantly changing due to the variable competency of its leaders and the general lack of trenches as the main way of fighting[2].
Not marked by any specific phase, as both sides tended to change fortunes on a dime, the eastern front is more often remembered by the fact that it saw the most changes in territory, the use of revolutionaries and nationalists to stir up trouble[2], and the fact that half of the major military leaders on it were royalty and/or cousins, with both the Crown Prince of Prussia[3], the Queen of Romania[4], the Russian Tsesarevich[5] and the future monarchs of Poland, Livonia and Ukraine[6] all being directly involved on the commands of the front, causing it to be often known as “The Cousin’s War”.
The Eastern Front also ended much earlier than the West, as after a failed revolution/coup led by Alexander Kerensky[7] in February of 1920, the Russians, which had been fighting for nearly a decade without a break, finally reaching their breaking point, and as Petrograd suffered through political turmoil[8] the Romanov’s empire, including areas ruled by its princes, started to break apart.
By October of 1920 Russia had all but pulled out of the war to focus inward and the front ended.​

[1] The Hapsburgs, while involved, also diverted much of their focus to Italy and the Balkans, and mostly acted as Germany’s flank
[2] Both sides mastered the use of nationalist extremists and revolutionaries on their favor, the result: a mess of political and ethnical unrest across Eastern Europe and such a confusing mess of successor states that some mapmakers gave up and just wrote “chaos” on the region when having to map Europe for the following decades. One of those examples was the “Popular Byelorussian Vanguard”, which ended up as one of the most disgusting nations in the world in their mixing of socialism with eugenicist levels of nationalism; accidentally created by the Germans, this beast of state lasted for over 2 decades before finally dying in the 1940s
[3] Known for the fact that he spent most of his time commanding sipping tea in between his orders
[4] Maria I of Romania (the daughter of Carol I who survived ITTL and inherited his throne, marrying one of her noblemen), who became infamous for the fact that, after years of military defeats under a string of incompetent commanders, deposed her own military high command and took the reins of the army, surprising everyone by going from the amiable, mother-like figure she had beforehand into a harsh general who retook Moldova and conquered Bessarabia in the span of a year
[5] Known as “Ivan the Boneless” due to his brittle-bone disease and deformed legs, he commanded the Russian Army from his wheelchair between 1918 and 1920 and was considered a majorly capable military leader who brought renewed victories to the Russians, only having to abandon it to deal with growing unrest at home
[6] All of whom were generals or military leaders of some sort on either side, with Oleg leading the Russian forces in Ukraine as a general, Viktoria de facto ruling over Livonia well before she became its ruler and Kazimierz being the German-Hapsburg backed leader of an independent Poland (and their first cousin/brother-in-law)
[7] With the support of one of the Emperor’s cousin’s, Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich (who was a political liberal who veered towards what he called “authoritarian republicanism”), he and his supporters tried to create a “revolution” (more of a coup) using of the popular protests that were happening in Petrograd due to the rise in the price of food. The revolution died after it failed to gain enough popular support (most the population were on the belief that the Emperor’s “evil ministers” were bringing the rise in prices, and even the communists were divided on the matter due to the rising Leninist ideologies among their ranks). In the end, Kerensky and his supporters ended up being routed out and killed when Tsesarevich Ivan ordered the Taurida Palace (the seat of the Imperial Duma), taken over by the revolutionaries, shelled into rubble
[8] Following the February Revolution, Russia’s government and military were a mess as the empire started to collapse, with Tsesarevich Ivan enacting a palace coup in March against his father and becoming Tsarevich Regent (a position he would hold for less than two years until his father abdicated, although he is mostly known as the “Tsar of Muscovy” instead of Emperor of All Russia) in an attempt to save the empire, as he saw his father as not being the type of ruler the empire needed at the moment, he both failed and succeeded on it
Italy
A somewhat confusing front of the war, in part due to the fact that it had an incredible variety in the way and the terrain it was fought, the Italian Front was, for the lack of a better term, a dumpsterfire, as during it the nations of the peninsula fought from the Alps all their all to Sicily, with Italy and the Hapsburgs going from closed fighting and ambushes on the Alps[1] to the network of trenches of the Po Valley, while to the South Italy and the Two Sicilies did the same, with the conflict looking almost like a rehearsal of the War of 1860 in its brutality, as both sides committed atrocities left-right-and-center in their fight by every tooth and nail, like the Tragedy at San Marino[2] or the Battle of Pontecorvo[3].
Exhaustive to the max, Italy was the second of the fronts to end in Europe, as the Italians, exhausted by fighting a three way-battle and having lost their funding from the French, surrender on the 1st of January, 1921.
In an interesting note, Monaco could be considered as the nation that gained the most from the front[4]​

[1] Like, for example, that time in 1914 when an entire battalion was buried when two Tyrolese men used dynamite to blow up the side of a mountain and close one of the mountain passes leading to Innsbruck
[2] Where a quarter of San Marino’s entire population died after the Imperial used the mountainous republic as a stronghold (as besides being put in the crossfire, the republic was devastated when, during the Siege of San Marino, an Italian charge hit the imperial storage of gunpowder and explosives, creating a 1-megaton explosion
[3] Which saw the ancient city be razed almost to the ground over the course of the fighting
[4] Although surrounded by the French at the start of the war, the Treaty of Zarzuela, which decided Italy’s post-war borders, not only returned Savoy and Nice to Italy (while taking much more than that from them), but also returned the territories of Menton and Roquebrune to Monaco, meaning that the country grew by about 20 times in size

The Balkans
The shortest of the European fronts but also one of the most emotional due to the deep-seated enmities and rivalries of the region, the Balkans Campaign was basically one long dogpiling on Serbia, started by the Hapsburgs invading her in 1910, that saw the kingdom under Peter I hold out for 5 years[1], mostly using of the Ottoman[2] and Bulgarian neutralities as her lifeline, until the latter entered the war in 1915, with the last remnants of the Serbian military being defeated in January 1917 while the Karadjordjevics escaped to Ottoman Macedonia[3].
[1] Although from around 1911 to 1915 Serbia and the Hapsburgs were in a species of stalemate while the latter focused on other parts of the conflict, in special the heating state of affairs in Italy, and her colonial empire’s war with France
[2] Following the First Balkan War (in which the Ottomans still held onto Thrace and Macedonia), the Ottoman Empire was a decrepit sleepy lion, and although her government may have been interested in entering the war in hopes of regaining some of her old territory, neither the military nor the people were in a state capable of entering
[3] Where they would stay low for some years, until rising again as the rulers of Paeonia when the Ottomans finally exploded

NORTH AMERICA
The Northeastern Front
Although started by the Albish with the invasion of Main on the 26th of April, 1910[1], the front was, through its run, almost evenly matched between both sides, who had some of the best military commanders of the era, like: Prince-Marshal John[2], General Roosevelt[3], Black Jack Pershing[4] Admiral Sims[5], Cold-Hearted Currie[6] and the future emperor Henry[7]; and saw a highly mobile warfare for most of its run, with fighting occurring from Acadia all the way to Minnesota.
The front was also in par with Western Europe on the sheer scale of death and destruction it had, as both sides were brutal in their march for victory and, in total, are believed to have represented about a quarter of all deaths in the War[8]. A long conflict, with only 1916 being considered as a decisive year on the war, the front’s timeline can be divided between:
1910 to 1912: when there was Albion’s initial advance into New England, although the Americans managed to hold their line at the Niagara[9], with the Albish Army under then Prince-General John reaching as far south as the outskirts of Boston. In the west the Great Lakes saw the Albish and Americans fighting in the waters and land, with the Battle by Isle Royal[10] and the Siege of Detroit[11] being the most well-known confrontations of it, although it stayed mostly stable overall.
1912 to 1914: there was a lull in the war as trench warfare became more common while both sides focused on other regions of the conflict, in the Great Lakes Albion saw clear victories as the then Prince-Admiral Henry managed to establish control over the Huron and the entrance of the Michigan following the Battle of the Mackinac[12]
The turn of 1914 to 1916: it saw the Americans manage to make a large comeback under the command of General Roosevelt, who, after managing to force the Albish into a full retreat on New England, broke their defenses in the Niagara Peninsula[13], entering Ontario and threatening Toronto. While to the west Albion made major gains, taking over most of the Upper Peninsula, the Americans continued to advance into the heartlands of Canada through 1915 and 1916, which culminated in the Burning of Toronto[14]. In retaliation, the Prince-Admiral enacted the Razing of Chicago[15], which was of an equally vile pedigree, before being forced to return to the Home Islands[16].
In the aftermath of the two most brutal moments of the war, both war crimes by modern standards, the war saw an era of frenzy that lasted to the end of 1917, as the Albish, under the command of General Currie, continued to advance through the Midwest, taking large swathes of land and advancing into Pennsylvania[17], where their stem was stopped at the First Battle of Pittsburg. The Americans, in other hand, managed to take much of the Maritimes and of Quebec, as well as northern Ontario, forcing the Canadian Viceroyal Government to flee to Winnipeg after the Siege of Ottawa[18], while the Americans established two puppet governments over the region[19].
1918 to 1919: there was a return to the trench warfare that existed in the past, with both sides playing the long game in their fight against each other; this period saw the Albish holding their ground while the internal situation of the US became worse and worse, with the November Coup in 1919 marking a turn of tides as Currie took the opportunity and ran with it, crossing the Roosevelt Line[20] less than a week later.
The last year of the front, 1920, saw the American government, who recalled Roosevelt in December[21], try to salvage the situation while stubbornly remaining on the war even in light of their massive losses[22], only worsening their standing until they were overthrown by the February Revolution[23].
The war front officially ended on May 21st, 1920, when both sides signed the Treaty of Cleveland[24]. After that, North America’s conflict would be the American’s civil war.​

[1] With a two-pronged advance made by an amphibian invasion of Bay Harbor and the crossing of the St. Croix River at Lubec
[2] A bachelor his entire life (John was pretty openly gay and had a series of same-sex relationships during his life, he never married in part due to his lack of a desire for making himself and another person miserable for the sake of appearances), John also served as Canada’s Viceroy before the start of the war (abdicating in the name of his sister Margaret when it started), and to this day is remembered in the country’s history due to his love for Canada and his establishment of important social works like the Public Health Service and the Free Schooling Act. John is in special beloved by the Mormon-Canadian population (mostly followers of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which considers their Utah cousins wankers) as he was responsible for lifting the laws that made them de facto second-class citizens in Canada, as well as being responsible for permitting their conscientious objection to fighting, establishing the modern system where drafted objectors are instead used as support workers
[3] Cousin and nephew-in-law to President Theodore Roosevelt (somewhat different from OTL), Franklin Delano Roosevelt was considered by the Prince-Marshal as being his “only equal” and is to this day remembered as one of the greatest military leaders in the First World War. Also serving in the Second, this time he was a part of the Canadian divisions of the Albish Army, seeing as during the Second American Civil War he took control over much of northern New England and formally changed sides by asking Canada to annex his territory, becoming afterwards the main leader of the expatriates and a respected political and military figure
[4] The leader of the american forces in the Great Lakes for many years, died in the Razing of Chicago when a building fell on him
[5] The leader of the american navy in the East Coast and Commander in Chief of the U.S, Atlantic Fleet, during the second half of the front, who had beforehand been quite content with his work mostly as a trainer on the naval reserves, he fought bravely and is today remembered as one of the country’s greatest naval commanders; during the American Civil War he allied with Roosevelt and later served in the Royal Navy as an instructor and professor for new cadets
[6] Sir Arthur William Currie, a born and bred Irish-Canadian, whose parents had come as children from Ireland during the Great Famine, he has the distinction of not only starting his military career at the very bottom of the ladder but also for completely revitalizing the Canadian war effort following the fall of Ottawa. Before rising to the command of the Canadian forces, he had served as the Prince-Marshal’s second-in-command
[7] Who some considered a madman, outside of his talent as a commander, he is remembered in the front for the fact that even during it his wife stayed mostly with him (Mary of Teck took a ship through the Arctic Circle to evade the Americans following the birth of their last son, and stayed with him at his flagship even in battle, where she learned the radar) and for actually loving the Great Lake’s absurd weather, considered their temperament and rough climate as being “invigorating”
[8] Much of the Ontario Peninsula and the shores of the Great Lakes were depopulated by the war, as people fled or died, and it would take years for the millions who had been forced to migrate to return, even then, the populations of the regions were still visibly smaller than before the war
[9] Albish tried crossing it over ten times, being stopped by the Americans at every turn while bombs and gunfire ran from both sides, and by 1913 the entire isthmus had become a marshy wasteland (even the famous Falls didn’t come from it intact, as a shell that had somehow lost its route ended up blasting a hole in one of them, which has become a strange memorial for the war)
[10] Occurring on November 7, 1911, the Battle of Isle Royal was one of the most impressive naval battles of the war, being fought between 12 American and 8 Albish ships under the leadership of Prince-Admiral Henry (who was a known frontline commander) and Admiral Hugo Osterhaus; it is known for not only giving the Albish control of Lake Superior but also for the fact it was fought in the middle of one of the lake’s infamous storms, which by itself resulted in six ships capsizing (reason why many joke that it was a melee of three, the Albish, the Yankees and the Superior)
[11] Lasting from June 18th to July 5th, 1910, the Siege of Detroit was the first major battle seen on the Great Lakes, being a mix of trench, naval and urban warfare as both sides started on the lands and waters around it before the battle moved onto Detroit on herself, seeing fighting on parks, streets and buildings alike
[12] Fought this time between the Prince-Admiral and Admiral Sims, the battle over the Strait of Mackinac lasted three days in November of 1914 and saw fierce naval and amphibious fighting on the strait, its islands, and its shores
[13] In a battle that saw the deaths of around 10.000 combatants and the flooding of some trenches
[14] Under the leadership of Colonel Jesse James Jr., the American forces besieging Toronto finally managed to break into the city on the 8th of April of 1916 and proceeded to pull a Sherman in burning and pillaging it while the American army looked away, resulting in over 90% of the city being burned to the ground by the end of it. Prince-Marshal John, who had been stuck on the city since the beginning of the siege in January (having mostly commanded his other forces through radio or by placing his trust on his second-in-command), died in a last stand at the Third Government House. Following his death, John’s body was desecrated and, later, when he was himself killed in action, Colonel James was found with the prince’s scalp still on his possession, having been preserved and kept as a trophy
[15] Under the leadership of Prince-Admiral Henry, the Albish forces in Lake Michigan enacted a massive amphibian and naval assault on the city of Chicago (who had been serving as the center for the Americans in the western great lakes) and proceeded to do wholesale slaughter and wanton destruction onto the city and her inhabitants. After 4 days of fighting and pillaging, as well as some light shelling (which ended up killing General Pershing), the Albish left the city, but not before shelling it by land and sea, leaving a burned and poisoned husk that would take decades to rebuild
[16] His father, Emperor Arthur, died only three days after the razing when he heard the news of Toronto’s sacking, he never heard of Henry’s own retaliatory actions, although the Empress Mother Alexandra, when asked about it, did say that he would have probably cheered their son if he heard, after all, she did
[17] The Albish advance through the Midwest (which saw them taking control over much of Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana) was also marked by a massive forced migration, as Currie (under the command, it seems, of the Prince-Admiral, possibly predicting the effects of the war on Canada’s population) often times took stranded populations (mostly poor and immigrant) and forced them north to Canada, which (as the region was heavily settled by German immigrants and Afro-Americans, which had both been under discrimination by the US for some time already) resulted on much the country’s modern Germanic and Afro-Descend minorities (as most of them do not identify with the American Expatriates, either by the war having bolstered their previous identity or due to the government beating it out of them through education programs)
[18] Which had the lasting effect (together with the devastation brought to Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes) of bringing more importance to the Prairie Provinces of Canada, as they had been, in general, unaffected by the conflict (or even helped due to the population boom from people fleeing the front). Following the end of the war Winnipeg remained the political center and capital of Canada, a position it holds to this day even while the population center remains the St Lawrence Basin
[19] The Republic of Canada and the Free State of Quebec, two collaborator states that would see themselves end with the collapse of the US; most of their leaders were either executed as traitors or exiled to the District of Franklin in the Arctic Islands (most of them would die from the region’s cold
[20] The TL’s equivalent to the Hindenburg Line, it went from the Ohio River all the way to Buffalo, mostly following the continental divide before cutting through Upstate New York
[21] No-one is certain of why, although many believe it was due to the new governments fears in relation to Roosevelt’s loyalties as he was registered Democrat and had enough political clout that they feared he may do a coup against them, but, nonetheless, it was undoubtedly the nail in the US’ coffin
[22] The Albish had not only broken the Roosevelt Line, but the Royal Navy now also did amphibian attacks on New Orleans, the major cities of the Southeast, and had landed in Long Island, advancing to New York City
[23] Led by Eugene V. Debs, who had been beforehand a Senator and had run as a socialist for the Presidency in 1914, the revolution established the People’s Government (who later became the United Socialist States of America) under Debs’ rule as a temporary acting president
[24] In which (besides other losses that will be commented in relation to Mexico) the United States had to officially give up all of her overseas possessions (by then already lost to the Imperial Powers) as well as large swathes of land in the West and the Great Plains, including a chunk of the Michigan Peninsula. On the northeast, the US also had to give Maine to Canada (which later, with *the civil war, extended to much of New England) and, possibly the most humiliating of all the punishments, they also had to give up to the Albish both the Long Island Archipelago and New York City

The Western Front
Often called the “Italy of North America”, the Western Front (sometimes known as Northwestern) was, for the lack of a better term, a raging dumpsterfire, as it was divided into three different pseudo-fronts and saw a wide array of fighting. It was also mostly fought by the Kingdom of Oregon by herself[1] against the United States and Russian America[2].
To the southwest, along the coast, there was the American advance, which managed to go as far north as Newport before being bogged down by trench warfare and a vicious guerilla campaign; it also saw a great deal of colorful characters, like the Earl of Corvallis, who only spoke through a parakeet[3] and led the Oregonians on the front, or Princess Mary, who was the mistress of the airs of Oregon[4], The sea was also home to an incredibly messy fight, as the American Pacific Fleet tried to take control of strategic positions in the coast only to be met with fierce resistance[5], culminating in the Battle of Juan de Fuca, where Queen Emma herself[6] led the navy in an ambush that managed to route and destroy the American fleet[7].
To the east, there was the insanity, as at the same time that Samuel Donner[8] led an invasion of Utah[9] and stirred up the Great Basin Uprising[10], the Americans, also through Utah, invaded eastern Oregon, taking most of the Snake River Plain before being stopped on their tracks by Princess Alice[11] at Fort Briggs[12], who broke all 15 American charges against her defenses and later would retake the entire plain in a spring[13].
And, to the north, there was the snowy relentless fighting against the Russians of Alyeska, who under the command of the Grand Duke Alexander[14] fought for an excruciating decade in frozen trenches while their meager navy fought for her life in the meandering coastlands[15].
In the end, the front ended in two sets, the first with the Treaty of Cleveland[16] and the second when Tsar Alexander[17] sued for peace on June 19th, 1920[18].​

[1] Showing her first major moves to becoming an independent member of the Commonwealth instead of an imperial kingdom, a status that was only officially changed in the 60s but that had already become the norm for the previous decades
[2] Who was also mostly on her own due to the Royal Navy’s control of the Northern Pacific
[3] Damien Mackenzie-Arminger (whose grandparents had been American Pioneers who sided with the Albish during the Willamette) had lost his tongue from an infection at age 15 and somehow trained a parakeet named Geneva (who when in battle wore a literal armor) to not only known what he wanted to say but actually be capable of stringing the words together for him
[4] Called “The Silver Devil”, Princess Mary (who received her nickname both from her albinism and for her silver-and-blue aeroplane), became known for having the highest known kill-count of the war (the Oregonian pilots keeping a tally on each other due to their historical custom of competing with each other for kills), as she not only was a bloody psychopath on the sky, killing at least fifteen people a day when she was on it, but also one of the world’s first bombers, being responsible for commanding the kingdom’s chemical and explosive aerial attacks
[5] Including the case of a town whose only pub was used by the Americans, and whose cook used the opportunity to poison
[6] A lover of the sea and a military genius, Queen Emma I was the first woman to ever serve in the Royal Navy, entering it when she was only 15 in 1898 and rising to the rank of Rear-Admiral by the age of 21, when her mother finally passed the reins of the kingdom to her
[7] In the night of June 1st, 1915, Queen Emma used her nigh supernatural intuition and the fog of the strait to, using the entire royal navy of Oregon (which was made of 5 ships only), ambush the incoming American fleet (in route to Victoria) less than fifteen miles from the capital. She didn’t lose a ship, the Americans only had 1 when it ended
[8] A survivor of the infamous Donner Party (he was 1 when they left west from independence in 1846) who at age 14 moved to Oregon and made a career for himself in the army, he was known for having a talent in mountain warfare, liking to smoke a mix of tobacco and cannabis from a clay pipe, having lost an eye fighting a mountain lion (who he took as a pet), and maybe having murdered and eaten his wife's lover
[9] At the time a still rather complicated territory of the US, as the Mormons had the tendency to stir up trouble every decade or so (not due to a want for independence, like under Oregon, per se, but in special due to wishing for both their religious customs to be permitted (as a major source of contempt was the fact that the Utah Mormons had, over the years, become more firm and radicalized in their beliefs, with polygamy being the norm to many) on the region and for the army to leave their damn lands)
[10] Mostly made of the various native peoples of the region, who, armed by the Oregonians, rose up in 1915
[11] Known as the “Iron Lady”, she became infamous both for her capacity as a commander and the brutality dealt on her enemies
[12] Sometimes known as the “Gate to Oregon”, the Fort Briggs (located around the same location as Huntington, Oregon), is a towering fortress, controlling the main entrance to the Columbia River Valley through the East, built between 1902 and 1910 and renovated in the 50s and 90s. It has never been taken by either treachery or frontal assaults
[13] In part with the help of guerilla groups
[14] Younger brother to Tsar Nicholas II and a first cousin to Queen Emma, he had been living in Alyaska for almost 15 years by that point, and had gone so acclimated to the region that he had become a member of the Russian Orthodox Old Believers, which had been move en masse to the colony
[15] Although since the Oregonians were also not a great navy this meant that they mostly had a battle a year, maybe two
[16] Which saw Oregon annexing much of the Great Basin region, much of the lands west of the Colorado, and northern California
[17] After Outer Manchuria broke away in May 1920, becoming the Socialist Republic of Eastern Russia, Alyaska’s connection to St. Petersburg, already flimsy at best due to the Royal Navy’s control of the Northern Pacific, was permanently lost, and by that point Alexander had already understood that trying to remain fighting was a moot point, so he unilaterally separated the colony from Russia and declared himself the first ruler of an independent Alyaska (with massive popular support)
[18] The Peace of Vancouver saw the newly founded "Tsardom of Alyeska" (or, at the time, "Alyaska" locally) become an Albish protectorate, and remains to this day a member of the Commonwealth

The Southern Front
The absolute first conflict of the war, having started the entire conflict with the Shelling of Brownsville on April 25th, 1910[1], the Southern Front]2] was, of the ones in North America, the most marked by trench warfare, as outside of the Latino Uprisings[3] and the Zapatista Rebellion[4] the conflict was entirely made on the patchwork of trenches stretching from Corpus Christi to Guadalajara[5].
Brutal and bloody as a side-effect of the deep seethed and old animosity between both sides, the front saw a wide array of war crimes and massacres as both Mexicans and Americans committed themselves to devastating the regions of what is now Northern Mexico[6].
Won less by the capacity of the Mexicans, who while masterfully holding their ground were woefully unprepared to fight the Americans[7], and more from the fact that the US had to focus on a variety of fronts at the same time, the Southern Front ended, together with most others in North America, with the Treaty of Cleveland, and saw one of the most massive changes of territory and population caused by the war[8].
[1] Sometimes known as the “Second Battle of Palo-Alto” (in reference to the historic battle during the Mexican-American War), at the start of 1910 it had a population of almost eleven thousand people, but nowadays it is a ghost town, its crumbling ruins a grim memorial for the death and suffering that occurred in the First and Second World Wars
[2] It has also been called the “Second Mexican-American War” by some
[3] A series of low-key ethnic uprisings that occurred in the American southwest during the conflict, backed by Mexico and motivated by the treatment of most Latin-Americans as second-class citizens and the forced expulsions done in the late 19th century (which saw most of the local Latino and Native American population of the region to either move out of the US by declaring them illegal immigrants or be confined to reservations), of whom the one leaded by Francisco “Pancho” Villa (born in Durango) is the most known, as his forces managed to hold much of northern Chihuahua for years
[4] Named after its leader, Emiliano Zapata, the Zapatista Rebellion was a republican left-wing rebellion that controlled the state of Morelos for various years during the war, being supported in part by the Americans
[5] Although the Mexicans managed to make an advance into Texas, reaching into the middle of Corpus Christi (which was heavily damaged by the fighting as trenches sometimes gave way to buildings), the Americans (we must remember that at the time the states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua and Sinaloa were all territories of the US) managed to make a large advance into Mexico, reaching as far south as the River Ameca
[6] To this day the region is littered with the bones of the dead, ruined and abandoned settlements, and the deep gashes made onto the literal land by the war
[7] Although there had been some modernization with help of the Albish during the previous decades, the Mexican Army had not fought a war since the establishment of the Empire in the 1860s, and so was almost completely unprepared to modern war in comparison to their enemy
[8] The Treaty of Cleveland saw much of the territories annexed by the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo being returned to Mexico (who promptly changed the territories of Lincoln, Jefferson and Washington back to their original names of Sonora, Chihuahua and Sinaloa, while Texas was returned to the Spanish pronunciation) and in the following years the country enacted a massive expulsion of their Anglican (a name used by the Mexicans to refer to American Settlers) population (who either fled north or settled in Tejas, which had a too-large population for Mexico to be bothered with), settling in their place Mexicans and the odd native american. Of their pre-war Anglican population, only around 30% remains (having been even more depopulated during the 40s and 50s), mostly inhabiting Baja California and Tejas, and to this day the effects of the migrations can still be felt on the region through its society, economy, and ethnic makeup

The Great Plains
Traditionally considered the most unremarkable of the fronts and sometimes not even counted as one, most of the fighting was based on skirmishes between armed farmers and the odd cavalry union, with some raids made by the Cree and Metis Regiments​
 
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Emperor Leonard of Albion
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Leonard (Leonard Leopold Albert Victor Alexander David Charles; 21 June 1895 – 10 December 1954), most commonly known as Leonard the Grim (or Leonard the Bastion), was the Emperor of Albion and her Dominions from 25 September 1943 until his death in 1954.

Known as “Leo” among his friends and family, Leonard was born during the reign of his great-grandmother, Empress Victoria, and originally named after his uncle, Prince Leonard of Teck, to whom his mother was close. As the eldest son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, he was from birth expected to inherit the throne, and spent his early life mostly in the company of his great-grandmother, to whom he was close to, and surrounded by her court. Educated firstly with his siblings by a battalion of tutors and governesses, he attended naval college as a teenager, and served in the Royal Navy during the First World War, fighting in the wars of the South China Sea, where after being near and explosion in the Battle of Manilla he lost most of his right leg and ear, as well as having the movement on his right arm impaired by permanent never damage.

Married in 1922 to Lady Olivia Spencer-Churchill, after a five-years-long courtship started when they met at a naval ball in Singapore (her father was then a Rear-Admiral in the Eastern Fleet), Leonard was made Commander-in-Chief of the Australia Station of the Royal Navy that same year, and worked in the position until retiring in 1925, being involved during that time in the Second American Civil War and the Hawaiian Civil War, giving support to Albion’s chosen side on them. After that, Leonard returned to the Home Islands, where her worked as the Imperial Minister of Transport, being a supporter of public transportations and the expansion of trams and the underground, and later served as de facto regent as the emperor’s health started to decline.

Ascending to the throne in 1943 during the lowest point of the Great Depression, Leonard’s reign was marked by the enacting of austerity measures in response to the economic woes across the empire, which were not helped by the extreme political ideologies of the era and the Second Mutiny in the late 1940s. In July 1951, Leonard oversaw the empire’s declaration of war on Militant France. War with the Kingdom of Spain, the Chinese Republic and the State of Aztlan followed in 1952 and 53. Leonard’s already present popularity soared as the war effort inadvertently reignited the slowly recovering economy, while his periodic speeches through the wireless and his past as a war hero made the emperor gain the image of sharing the hardship of the common people and helped sustain morale over the empire.

More than once advised by the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, his subjects and even his mother to at least leave London if he was so adamant in staying in the Isles (most defended that he command from South Africa, Australia, Canada or even India), he refused to do so at every turn, which, sadly, would result on his death. On 8 December 1954 Buckingham herself was bombed during the Battle for Albion (which would result in over 90% of London being damaged during its course), and the emperor was found a day later mortally injured under the rubble, dying from his injuries at the Imperial London Hospital.

Buried almost a month later with Lucas the tiger, Leonard was succeeded by his eldest daughter, Jessamine, who had been made the Princess of Wales after her brother, the Duke of Yeovil, was disowned through the Succession Act of 1951.

Made the martyrized symbol of the empire with his death, Leonard is considered to this day a symbol and embodiment of Albish determination and endurance during the Great Depression and the War. One of the empire’s most revered figures, hundreds of memorials, hospitals, schools and monuments, as well as three cities, have been name or renamed after him since 1954.
 
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Olivia Spencer-Churchill, the Empress Grandmother
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Olivia Spencer-Churchill (Olivia Consuelo Charlotte Magdalene Victoria Mary; 28 April 1900) is the widow of Emperor Leonard of Albion and mother of Empress Jessamine. She was Empress consort of Albion and her dominions from her husband’s ascension in 1943 until his death in 1954, being known afterwards as Empress Olivia, the Empress Mother, and as Empress Olivia, the Empress Grandmother, since the death of her daughter in 2015.

Born the only daughter of the 9th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Consuelo Vanderbilt, Olivia was raised both in the Home Islands and in Southeast Asia and Australia, where her father served as a commanding officer on the Eastern Fleet. A volunteer during the war, she served as a part of His Majesty’s Telegraph Operators from 1916 until 1922, when she came to prominence upon marrying the then Prince of Wales, Leonard, theirs being the first royal wedding to be ever recorded in film. The couple and their children embodied traditional ideas of family and public services, and Olivia took a variety of public engagements and became known for her consistent cheerfulness and charming intelligence.

Becoming empress consort in 1943 when her father-in-law died from a stroke, Olivia accompanied her husband during their Imperial Tour from 1945 to 1946 and on diplomatic trips to Germany, Brazil and Japan before the start of the Second World War. During the war, her continuously high spirit provided moral support to the Albish public just as much as her husband’s stoic image, and Olivia continued with it even after the emperor’s death in 1954, only taking a two month hiatus before her return to the public.

After the stepping down of Empress Mary in 1958, Olivia was viewed as the matriarch of the Imperial Family and brought one of their greatest scandals when she secretly married her private secretary, Callum Williams, in 1972, as many flinched at the idea of a remarried empress mother. Out of the public eye for a few years, Olivia resumed her duties in 1975 and continued with an active public life until the Earl of Aberfan’s death in 2001, after which she entered a period of mourning that lasted to 2003, formally stepping down from active duty in 2004 after a back surgery. In 2005 Olivia married a third time to Eric Lloyd Right, 3rd Baronet, whom she met during their grandsons’ marriage in 2002.

Currently living a semi-secluded lifestyle in her personal country resident, Goldleaf Park, near Aberfan, with her husband, Empress Olivia is the oldest member of the Imperial Family (as well as the second oldest royal in the world after Princess Tokiko of Japan), the 5th oldest person in the planet, and the oldest person in the empire, with her 120th birthday being made into a national holiday.
 
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The Battle of Battenberg Island
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Possibly the weirdest and also most disturbing anecdote of the entire war, occurring during the months of mid and late 1915, the conflict in Patagonia managed to extend itself to Antarctica, when, during the Third Battle of Cape Horn, two ships, AUP Cervantes and HMS Jane Austen (where Prince Leopold of Battenberg and Albany was serving as a midshipman), ended up being blasted of course, and somehow got stranded on Pourquoi Pas Island (now known as Battenberg Island), located near the coast of Graham Land.

The battle was from its beginning a death sentence, as the survivors on both ships tried to continue fighting in the middle of the polar winter (injuries in the corpses found, as well as damages to the ships and crude battlements on the island itself show to that), using their stranded vessels as fortresses while they were killed by each other, their injuries and the bitter cold, which only got worse as the days went on as it was at the time winter in the South Hemisphere. By June 7th, over a month into the battle, the ship members still alive also had to deal with the polar twilight, as for nearly a month the Sun would not truly rise on the horizon.

It is not certain when the last combatant died, probably from the bitter cold, without any hope of rescue (some historians believe the captains decided to continue fighting in part as so their crews would not be condemned to die from cold and hunger, instead of it being due to some shortsighted ambition for glory) in the icy island, but when they did, probably around September, the battle ended with them.

The fate of the two ships would not be known until nearly two decades later, when an arctic expedition leaded by John Rymill would find the Austen’s wreckage in 1934 on the coast of Battenberg Island, laying on its side entirely on land, inside there were 8 bodies, 3 huddled together as if trying to stay warm and the other 5 visibly cannibalized, one barely anything more than a skeleton. Among them was Prince Leopold, clutching a rosary and a pocket watch with a photo of his mother and siblings.

Cervantes would be found in 1958 by a Chilean scientific expedition, who saw it around 150 meters from the Austen, possibly sunken by an explosion of its engine room, as there was a gigantic hole to the side of the ship (no bodies were found, and are believed to have been ravaged by the seals and whales).​
 
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The House of Tokugawa
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The House of Tokugawa (徳川氏、德川氏, Tokugawa-shi or Tokugawa-uji) is a dynasty of Japanese origins whose members, now mostly centered on the Americas, hold or have held positions of power in Japan, the Americas, Europe and China. The family has its beginnings in 1567 when Matsudaira Motonobu, more commonly known as Tokugawa Ieyasu, changed his family’s name to Tokugawa. Through the Matsudaira the house is nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850-880) and are a branch of the Minamoto Clan (Seiwa Genji) through the Nitte Clan, although their early history remains a mystery.

Originally a minor daimyo clan from the Province of Mikawa, Japan, the Tokugawa rose to power in the early 17th century when Tokugawa Ieyasu took over the country during the aftermath of the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, becoming Shogun in 1603. Ruling over Japan as de facto monarchs from 1603 until the Boshin War in 1868, the Tokugawa, in the aftermath of the conflict that saw the shogunate’s end and the return of power to the Emperor, were exiled on their entirety, together with many of their retainers and vassals, to Albion, who had at the time already been hosting the deposed Shogun Iemochi and had been responsible for convincing the Japanese government to opt for banishment instead of mass executions.

A homeless dynasty living on the favor of the Albish, the Tokugawa’s clan came again in 1874 when, after much consideration among the government, Empress Victoria issued a royal charter to the dynasty, collectively granting to them large swathes of almost uninhabited lands on the north of Columbia. After receiving their new lands, most of the clan’s family moved there, establishing over the next two decades more than 50 separate feudal domains in a manner not dissimilar from their past lands in Japan, setting them in part with their retinues, in part with immigrants, and in part by making treaties with local peoples.

Following the grant, the House of Tokugawa’s center became and remains the northern parts of Oregon, a nation where they serve as a cornerstone of government and administration holding various government positions and being deeply intertwined with the House of Montival, with whom they have intermarried profusely over the past century. As the premier lord of the realm, the Shogun of Edo, directly descended from Shogun Iemochi, is also the hereditary Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Oregon and is generally considered their second-in-command.

Outside of Oregon, the House of Tokugawa’s presence extends through the Americas and to the Pacific and Eurasia, as various marriages during the 20th century have made them closely related to the ruling houses of Peru and Hawaii, while branches of the clan rule over El Salvador and Macau.

A large dynasty, whose recognized and certified members amounted to 3.101 in 2018 (but whose real numbers are probably in the tens of thousands), the Tokugawa have their kin spread across a large number of nations, who are not only among the ranks of nobility (there are over 400 peerages held by some member of the other of the family, and they amount to around a tenth of all Peruvian nobles) but also of the political and business classes, with four companies in the Global 5000 being founded and run by members of the family. The total net worth of the Tokugawa is estimated to be around 416 billion pounds.

Although both intermingled on numerous occasions in the past and are related through the female line by marriages, the House of Tokugawa remains completely barred from entering Japan, and any of their members who do so are to be detained and deported at the earliest convenience (until 1960 the punishment was under the pain of death before Emperor Hirohito made some changes to his grandfather’s decree)

The Branches of the Tokugawa (a short run-down)

The Main/Edo Branch
Descending directly from Shogun Iemochi and holding the main titles of "Duke and Shogun of Edo, Great Overlord of the North, High Lord of Whulj Sound, Master of the Order of Greenleaves and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Oregon", the main branch holds the status of being of a higher rank than any other member of the clan, with even their princely styles being of higher class than their relatives, while their patriarch is the head of all the Tokugawa, and has a say in matters occurring on all domains of the family within Oregon even if he has never set foot on them (besides holding hereditary positions in the Oregonian government)
The Royal House of El Salvador
Established in 1933 when President Fernando Tokugawa (a nephew of Yoshinobu, last Shogun of Japan) was made “King of El Salvador” after having taking power beforehand in a coup. They are the family’s most isolated branch (and technically are not official members of the clan) ever since, as besides being under Brazil’s influence their rank and traditionally frigid relationship with the Edo have made any possible rekindling of relations an impossibility, with them normally being considered a separate dynasty than symply a branch of the house
The Princely House of Macau
The most recent official branch of the family to be born, as although already a part of the Tokumono beforehand they only entered the ranks of royalty with the marriage of Afonso José Tokugawa to Princess Maria of Portugal, who in 1974 became the ruling princess of Macau. Although marking their beginning as being when Macau became an autonomous principality within Portugal, the family has only by blood come to power in 2018, when Princess Maria died and her son, an agnatic Tokugawa, became the Prince of Macau
The Gosanke (The Noble Three)
The most ancient branches of the Tokugawa, descending from Ieyasu’s younger sons, in the past they were allowed to provide a shogun for Japan in case of the main line’s failure, with the Edo Branch descending from the Kishū on the male line originally, although as the tradition has not been mantained following their move to Edo they are currently mostly known for being the only branches outside of the Hainain-ka to hold the courtesy title of "Prince"
The Gosankyō ("The Three Lords")
The three branches descending from Shogun Yoshimune of Japan (who himself was born a member of the Kishū branch) and who have the dubious honor of having produced Japan’s last Shogun. Their main feature (besides being the origins for the Royal House of El Salvador) is the fact that their heads serve as a triumvirate of rulers for Minami, the clan’s southernmost domain
The Hainain-ka ("The High Nine")
The original nine branches descending from Shogun Iemochi who were granted the title of Dukes by Michael I and the courtesy of princes by his daughter. They, after the Main Branch, are the highest lines of the family, being known for their power, autonomy, and tendency for periodical infighting (the Hikuni and Uzushio branches being infamous for their rivalry).
Since 2017 the Hainain-ka have been reduced to eight, as with the death of Duke Anthony from meningitis the infamously short in heirs Hayakawa Branch became extinct by name, their titles and being absorbed back to the Crown
The Shitakatei ("The Many")
The various minor branches of the Tokugawa in Oregon (not just landed but also simply aristocratic) that comprehend the bulk of the family overall, as of all clan members over 80% are of this group
The Tokumono ("The Faraways")
The branches of the family who are not rulers on their own right and live mostly outside of Oregon. Technically identifiable as a part of the Shitakatei, they comprehend some 56 odd groupings (most Tokumono don’t really care for continuing to be a recognized member of the family) who mainly live in Albion and Peru​
 
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Some interesting, diverse and creepy stories on here, very good.

As it is quite hard to keep track of who's ruling what, could we have a dynastic map, or otherwise a world map showing who runs what (rather than just an outright political map)

Best of luck with this rollercoaster of an AH,
From ML8991
 
Some interesting, diverse and creepy stories on here, very good.

As it is quite hard to keep track of who's ruling what, could we have a dynastic map, or otherwise a world map showing who runs what (rather than just an outright political map)

Best of luck with this rollercoaster of an AH,
From ML8991
Thanks for the comment! But yeah, even for me it gets a bit too confusing who rulers where at times, in special on the smaller countries. Now that you gave me the idea, I think I'm going to do a dynastic map now (although I will probably be extremely confusing, since there are so many dynasties spread across the globe), also showing the government of non-monarchies.

I'll also use it to show the major international blocks, since I completely forgot to show them on the first one and since there is a cold war on the setting it would probably be useful to show it
 
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(Extra THICC might help, it has a bunch of dynasties on it)
I'm currently in the process of labeling the colors (it was quick and not as large as I expected because it only shows the 2 major international organizations and the far third (but I think it will help to convey the geopolitics of the world at least a bit) and leaves behind most dynasties that rule a single country)
 
The Dynasties and Governments of the World in 2020 (WORK IN PROGRESS, ADVISED USE OF HEAD PROTECTION)
The Dynasties and Governments of the World at the end of 2020
And so here we have the forms of government/administration and the ruling dynasties (many thanks to @ML8991 for giving the idea of making this map), shown in a collection of maps to make it less confusing of a sight (I originally made a single map, and it was confusing as all heck due to both too-much and too-little information)
*-NOTE (27/5/2022): The collection is a work in progress, and maps will be added as they are finished-*

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The House of Windsor (Founded in 1878 by Empress Victoria of Albion, Queen of the UK of Great Britain and Ireland, etc.)
As a general rule of thumb, the genealogy of the branches of the House of Windsor is an utter confusion, in great part due to the fact that it was founded by a female member of the House of Hanover whose husband was from the Ernestine Side of the House of Wettin and was from the beginning blasé in caring if the lineage came through the mother or the father when counting its members
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(Map I - World | Map II - Member States/Subnational Monarchies)
In Mona Lisa Pink is the Senior Imperial Line of the Windsors (also called the Main Line), the line of the Emperors of Albion and as such the one from which all other branches of the House of Windsor sprouted - The line is currently of agnatic Hapsburg-Lorraine stock, to become Stuart (through an illegitimate line) following that
In
Medium-Red Violet is the Junior Imperial Line, said name doesn't have much relation to genealogical positions, and is in reference to the fact that it is the other branch of the House of Windsor to hold an Imperial title
In
Dark Red are the Agnatic Royal Branches, being the branches that rule over Imperial Kingdoms that have retained a male-line descent from Albish Monarchs
In
Valencia Red are the Enatic Royal Branches, which have either been inherited solely through the female line, have been founded by female members, or are agnatic branches with a female current monarch
In Terracota and Tonys Pink are the Minor Branches, agnatic and enatic ones respectively, being minor legitimate branches of the House of Windsor mainly following the same basis of the royal branches for their categorization (and in some situations houses which connected themselves to the Windsors through the female line)
In Two Shades of Fuchsia are the Bastard Branches, which are generally minor branches of the House of Windsor descending from illegitimate children (and separated by the sex of their founders in this case)
In Tacha we have the Agnatic Female-Line Lines, an unique and confusingly-named category reserved for houses that are connected to the House of Windsor through a male line but practice some form of matrilineal succession
In Cabaret Red are Other Houses, which are a variety of generally-minor houses that for some reason or another are considered as de facto parts of the House of Windsor (most commonly through marrying one and being absorbed into it)
In
Emerald and Algae Green is the House of Montival, one of the main lines branched from the Windsors. Agnatically Tokugawa mostly, the house's branches aren't categorized by sex, and instead the lighter coloring refers to branches originated out of wedlock
In
Bouquet Purple is the House of Battenberg, a morganatic branch of the House of Württenberg that was de facto assimilated into the House of Windsor in the late 19th century. In Cold Turkey Purple are the house's minor branches
And in Conifer and Primrose Green are the branches descending from British House of Hanover (both legitimate or illegitimate), with the latter color in specific referring to those descended from the Hanoverian Dukes of Cambridge (including through the female line)

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The House of Braganza (Founded in 1442 by Dom Afonso I de Bragança, 1st Duke of Braganza and 8th Count of Barcelos)
Founded by a bastard son of the first king of a illegitimate branch of the Portuguse House of Burgundy, and as such a distant branch of the French Capetian Dynasty, the House of Braganza is one with a genealogy that is, to put it plainly, complicated, being marked by having various illegitimate branches, a genelogical divide between a Senior and Junior branches whose thrones are the opposite of what many would expect, and a general tonne of branches descending from female members of the dynasty or houses who became a part of the dynasty's "sphere" due to marrying said female members
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In Spring Green is the Senior (and Imperial) Line of the Braganzas, the branch of the Emperors of Brazil descending from Pedro I & IV's only surviving legitimate son, Pedro, and the main branch of the dynasty to have remained one through the male line
In Fun Green is the Junior (and Royal) Line of the Braganzas, the branch of the Kings of Portugal descending from Pedro I & IV's eldest daughter, Maria, who was chosen to inherit Portugal over her brother so as to permanently sever the Portuguese and Brazilian thrones - With Maria, the branch stopped being agnatically Braganza, and has remained ever since of Wettin stock through some twists and turns[1]
In Screamin' Green are the Agnatic Imperial Branches, who were started by sons and male-line descendants of the Brazilian Monarchs
In Emerald Green are the Enatic Imperial Branches, who were started by daughters of Brazilian Monarchs or their children
In Ocean Green and Bermuda Green are the Recent Royal Branches, Agnatic and Enatic respectively, who are specifically the branches descending directly from Pedro VIII and his brothers
In Bright Sun Yellow are the Carolingian Branches, who are branches of the Junior Line who were started by or descend from the children of Carlota and Cedric I of Portugal (excluding the Prince Royal)
In Viking Blue are the Marian Branches, who are the branches of the Junior Line started by or descended from the younger sons of Maria II
In Conifer Green are the Legitimate Petrine Branches, who are the branches descending from the other legitimate daughters of Pedro I & IV
In Limeade Green and Pistachio Green are the Illegitimate Petrine Branches, the branch descending from one of his recognized illegitimate sons and the houses descending from some of his illegitimate daughters respectively
In Atlantis Green is the Miguelist House of Braganza, the branch descended from Pedro I & IV's younger brother whose dynastic status is complicated[2]
In Shadow Green is the Royal House of Malawi (also called the House of Kalonga), which is a matrilineal dynasty who due to marital diplomacy descends from a male-line descendant of Maria II
In Lime Green are Agnatically Descended Houses, houses who due to marriage are male-line descendants of either branches of the Braganzas
In
Heathered Gray are Related Houses, houses and dynasties on their own right who due to marriages and connections are considered as being de facto part of the larger Brigantine Dynasty
And in Horizon Blue are the Kongolese Royal Houses, the various branches of the Kilukeni Kanda who although a separate dynasty are closely-tied to the Brangazas through marriage and diplomacy​
[1] Maria II's husband was by birth Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Kóhary - a branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld founded by the older brother of Victoria, Duchess of Kent, and Leopold I of the Belgians (and younger brother of Ernest I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) - and as such their children were agnatically a part of the House of Wettin; then, Carlota I married Prince Cedric of Albion, who was Ferdinand's first-cousin once-removed, and as such ever since the members of the Portuguese House of Braganza are agnatically still a part of the House of Wettin, but now through the branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
[2] Although now reaccepted into the greater House of Braganza, the Miguelists were from their establishment until well into the 20th century considered as being non-dynastic or disinherited parts of the dynasty due to Miguel I's sheenanigans
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The House of Bourbon (Founded in 1272 by Robert, Count of Clermont)
Founded by the six son of King (and Saint) Louis the Ninth of France, who inherited the name in actuality from his wife, Beatrix of Burgundy, the House of Bourbon is also on itself the seniormost legitimate branch of the Capetian Dynasty, and much like its progenitor is incredibly prolific in the sheer number of branches it possesses; and known for the fact that said branches have often been in quarrel with eachother and in a musical chairs of seniority. Unlike the previous two houses, the Bourbon, much like the Capetians, normally don’t trace branches through the female line, although some exist[1].
For the ease of reckoning, some like to include the other surviving branches of the Third Race of Kings – by which the Capetians were sometimes called) – when counting the branches of the Bourbon, which will be mostly not done here, as most of those branches are part of some form of nobility, or are from the Braganzas.
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In Gigas Blue is the Senior Agnatic of the Bourbons, also called the Spanish Line, the lineage of the Spanish Monarchs. Said agnatic seniority is a bit funny in being held by them, since for over a century they weren’t even so among the Spanish branches of the dynasty.
In Lucky Point Blue is the Official Senior Branch, at times also called the Junior French Line, of the Bourbons, better known as the House of Orléans, and in modern time the line of the Kings of Champagne. Their status as the official senior branch is a bit interesting, and specific because there were some accords between branches for it to be so[2].
In Cerulean Blue is the Provençal Branch, also called the Bourbon-Grimaldi and the True Senior Line, as it is the direct line of the Bourbon Kings but is not so on the male line anymore, with the branch’s last male dying in the middle 20th century and it agnatically descending from the House of Grimaldi.
In Blue are the Spanish Branches of the dynasty, who descend from the many children of the Spanish Bourbons, who much like their Portuguese (distant) cousins were much more fertile in comparison to the French.
In Azure Radiance Blue are the Sicilian Branches, also called the House of Bourbon-Three Sicilies, who are nothing more than the branch of the Spanish Bourbons that sprung from a son that received half of Italy as a secundogeniture and didn’t end up getting the rest of the family inheritance, and the branches that sprung-off from his line.
In Ziggurat Blue are the Parmesan Branches, or the House of Bourbon-Parma, who was the first branch to spring from the Spanish Bourbons, descending from sixth son of their founder
In Neptune Blue are the Orleanist Branches, descending from Louis Philippe, King of the French
In Cornflower Blue are the Illegitimate Branches of the Bourbon, originating from any of the legitimate lines
In Brilliant Rose are the Disinherited Branches of the Bourbon, those lines who were for one reason or another declared non-dynastic, originating from any of the dynastic lines
In Cerulean is the House of Bourbon-Bhopal, also called the Bourbons of India, which appear even they are not in actuality the rulers of Bhopal, but serve as seconds-in-command to the Begums instead[3]. Non-dynastic, the family is believed to descend from the youngest son of Charles III, Duke de Bourbon[3], Constable of France, and was recognized as such in the early 20th century[5].
In Ship Cove Blue are the Noble Bourbons, the branches of the family that separated before it inherited the French Throne
In Crimson is the House of Henneberg, who, although not actually a part of the Capetian Dynasty, is of the same stock as them, as both houses descend from the sons of Robert I, Count of Hesbaye, and as such are both branches of the Robertian Dynasty[6].​
[1] most noticeably, the House of Bourbon-Grimaldi; in general terms, in recent generations branches of the family have been considered as continuing to exist even after a breaking of the male if either: they are tied to a specific title that goes through the female line; they still remained agnatically Bourbon through some cousin marriage; or they were more much recent and the subsequent groom was of a lower rank or eminence
[2] the older and junior French lines had a history of bad blood, only solved in more recent generations, and although the Spanish Bourbons were nominally disinherited (due to Philip V of Spain abandoning his rights to the French throne when he became King of Spain), it wasn’t certain if that actually was valid or would be recognized by the wider family; it was with a house-wide treaty that the Orléans were affirmed as the official heirs to the headship (with a variety of concessions to the future Bourbon-Grimaldis)
[3] the most influential and wealthiest family of Bhopal after the family of the Nawab Begums, the Bourbons of Bhopal were officially recognized as such during the reign of the Sixth Begum, married to one of them, who bestowed the family’s head at the time with the title of “Nawab of Jagadishpur”
[4] according to family legend, the Bourbons of Bhopal were started by Jean Philippe de Bourbon, the son of Charles III, Duke de Bourbon, either by a secret wife or by his known wife, Duchess Suzanne. Jean Philippe, as an adult, ended-up in the court of Emperor Akbar, and later married the sister of one of the Emperor’s wives or concubines, who was a Christian
[5] Salvadore III de Bourbon, future head of the family, became, during his time studying in Europe, a close friend of the future Louis IV/XX Alphonse, who convinced his father to recognize the Bhopal Bourbons as being a distant branch of the family. The recognition did come with some stipulations, however, as with it Salvadore agreed to recognize that Charles III de Bourbon’s treason made his offspring be considered disinherited and pseudo non-dynastic in relation to the French Throne.
[6] Unlike IOTL, where they became extinct in 1583, ITTL the Counts of Henneberg lived-on, although fragmentation, succession disputes, and morganatic marriages resulted on them losing the majority of their lands, before being mediatized to Saxony and the Ernestine Duchies
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The House of Hohenzollern (Founded before 1061 by, probably, Burkhard I, Lord of Zollern)
Founded in the first half of the 11th century, probably by a minor German nobleman of which so little is known about that the date of 1061 comes from him dying in that year, the House of Hohenzollern is, in general, one marked by having, similarly to their long-rivals the Hapsburgs, in a sense risen from the lower rungs of nobility all the way into imperial and royal might, starting as small lords of Swabia and rising gradually over the course of centuries; this "slow ascension" has the unique effect that, overall, most reigning branches of the Hohenzollerns are deceptively young compared to its' age, being more akin to the Windsors in that aspect by having nearly all of them come to be in the 19th and 20th centuries; compared to the previous house, the Bourbons, however, the Hohenzollerns are much less marked by quarrels and conflicts, at least in recent times, and similarly to the Braganzas, they also have dabbled in the art of musical chairs between its' senior and junior branches
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(Map I - World | Map II - Within Germany and part of its' member-states)
In Chathams Blue is the Senior Line of the Hohenzollerns, also known as the Imperial Hohenzollerns, the lineage of the Electors of Brandemburg, Kings of Prussia and, finally, German Emperors; said continued seniority, even with Kaiser Friederike, is a matter of some confusion, and only possible due to a family-wide agreement in the matter
In Muted Blue are the Sovereing Imperial Branches, who are the branches of the house descending from the German Emperors and whose domains, in specific, are independent sovereign states
In Faded Blue are the Member, or Non-Sovereign, Imperial Branches, who are the branches of the house descending from the German Emperors and whose domains, in specific, are member-states of Germany
In Regent Grey are the Pre-Imperial Branches, which are the branches of the house descending from the Electors of Brandenburg and the Kings of Prussia which came to be before they ascended into being German Emperors; a majority are part of the nobility of Germany and broader Eastern Europe
In Mountain Meadow are the Franconian Branches, which are the descendants of the theoretical "middle line" of the House of Hohenzollern, historically not that plentiful, they are considered semi-morganatic in modern times[1]
In Light Cornflower Blue are the Agnatic Swabian Branches, or, at least, the majority of them, being branches of the "Junior Line" of the House of Hohenzollern who remained as small princes in Swabia; unlike most of the house, they are primarily Catholic
In Robin Egg Blue are the branches of the House of Hohenzollern-Romanov, founded from Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen's marriage to Grand Duchess Viktoria of Russia, due to developments since, not all of them are agnatically Hohenzollern
In Brilliant Rose are the so-called "Other" Imperial Branches, the trio of dynasties whose actual descent from the House of Hohenzollern is at times a bit too complicate to explain here
In Columbia Blue is the House of Basarab, which is considered by the Hohenzollerns as an enatic branch of the Swabian Lines[2]
In Light Plum are the Close Houses, the number of German royal houses which although separate, or branches of other dynasties, overall act as de facto additional parts of the Hohenzollern Dynasty​
[1] the dynastic state of the Franconian Hohenzollerns is at times a matter of wild debates, as their near-extinct in the 18th century resulted on the braches all descending from Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and his second wife, an english noblewoman, meaning that they were, at the beggining of the 19th century, morganatic; their ascension to the throne of Neuchatel, and later reconciliation with the Prussian Hohenzollerns and ascension on Burgundy, however, places some confusion as to wether they should remain being considered morganatic, as while never offiicially declared as dynastic, they did regain properly royal status
[2] it is also seen as officially the only one of its' type in existence, as the Hohenzollerns of Moresnet have the unique status of having de facto switched from being agnatic brnaches of the Swabian to the Imperial line of the dynasty
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The House of Habsburg-Lorraine (Founded in 1736 by Maria Theresa of Austria[1] and Francis of Lorraine[2])
Sometimes known as the Younger House of Hapsburg, as the House of Austria, or simply as the House of Habsburg
Born from the marriage of the daughter and heir of Charles the Sixth of the Holy Roman Empire, Maria Theresa, to the then Francis the Third of Lorraine, who united into one their two houses, both of whom traced their founding to the turns of the 11th century[3], the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, which is often known simply as “Habsburg”, is an uniquely complicated dynasty, marked by conflicts, downs and lows, and which, much like its’ historical nemesis of the Capetians, has been quite prolific in its’ branches, embodying its’ most famous, if unofficial, motto[4]; although not practiced for most of their history, the practice of tracing branches on the female line has become more common in the house’s most recent eras.
For ease of reckoning, some like to also include houses particularly close to them when counting the branches of the Habsburgs, although the matter of which are such house has been debated at times, with them, in the case of this map, being primarily the houses of Liechtenstein, Wittelsbach, and Obrenović
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In Red Purple is the Imperial Line of the Habsburgs, the main and chief line of the dynasty and that from which all the others have, theoretically, come from, serving as the Emperors of the United Hapsburg Imperium, Kings of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, and others
In Folly is the House of Asburgo, commonly known as the Venetian Habsburgs, which is the Senior Agnatic Line of the dynasty, a status caused mainly by the confusing events surrounding Emperor Franz Joseph’s successors
In Fandango are the Agnatic Branches of the dynasty, which descend from the dynasty in legitimate male lines
In Hopbush are the Enatic Branches of the dynasty, which, unlike in some other houses, are nearly all of them branches that started as agnatic but stopped due to female inheritance[5]
In Twilight Lavender are the, rare, Non-Dynastic Branches[6], in the past known as Illegitimate Branches, which normally started as traditional agnatic branches but stopped being so due to either unequal marriages[7] or legitimization of bastards[8]
In Faded Red are the so-called (Female) Descended Houses, the small group of houses whose founders were married to Habsburg princesses, and who de facto (and, in ways, de jure as well) are branches of the dynasty
In Water Blue is the House of Austria-Berat, originally the senior line of the cadet House of Austria-Este, it is specified primarily due to its’ relative “uniqueness” compared to the rest of the dynasty
In Cadmium Yellow is the House of Albania, which due to a history of complicated inheritances, marriages and conversions is difficult to categorize, originally a junior branch of the Teschen Habsburgs
In ArtyClick Ultramarine is the House of Liechtenstein and its’ various branches, which has had an incredibly close relationship with the Habsburgs throughout its’ history and possibly an even closer one in the last two centuries
In Faded Purple is the House of Obrenović, which only isn’t classified as a “Descended House” due to its founding being decades before Archduchess Valkyria married Alexander I of Serbia
In Crystal and Columbia Blue is the House of Wittelsbach, which although not as tied with the Habsburgs as in the past, was close enough to warrant its’ appearance here; the difference of color signal wether it is a legitimate or illegitimate/morganatic branch
In Cold Purple is the House of Hapsburg-Sulz-Laufenburg, which, admittedly, technically is actually a branch of the Older House of Habsburg, descending from a branch so old it predates the house’s rule over Austria[9]
and In Light Carmine Pink are the Others, a handful of European houses of particularly-close ties to the Habsburgs
[1] later Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (and also over 30 other titles)
[2] then Duke of Lorraine and Bar, later Grand Duke of Tuscany and Holy Roman Emperor
[3] and which, quite interestingly, also traced their most ancient ancestry back to the same dynasty, founded in the second half of the 7th century by one Adalrich, Duke of Alsace; the House of Lorraine, however, has slightly foggier roots compared to the Older House of Habsburg, and although most historians agree with the theory of their shared ancestry (which became the main one only in the 18th century), it is not a unanimously recognized one, with the Dukes of Lorraine themselves, for a time (in the Renaissance) claiming to be of Carolingian ancestry (which has also been at times claimed for the Habsburgs, as an alternative theory to their genealogy)
[4] most commonly known as “Let others wage war, you, happy Austria, marry”, which can, due to the double meaning of its’ Latin version, also be translated as “Let others wage war, you, lucky Austria, shall marry”; a slightly-common addendum to the phrase is “because what Mars gives to others, Venus gives to you”
[5] interestingly enough, however, the Habsburgs’ still-occasional marriage between cousins is directly behind why these branches are rather rare even though female succession, among the dynasty, hasn’t been for nearly a century, as a branch remains being considered agnatic even if its’ original male line has stopped
[6] the name is rather misleading (something which its’ alternative also is), as the Habsburgs’ definition for the dynasticity of the children from morganatic marriages is slightly different from the historical norm
[7] unlike most other Germanic Royal and Imperial dynasties, the Habsburgs have retained the practice of “unequal marriages”, even though they are, as mentioned above, rather different from the norm in regard to it (which, in a way, is why these branches even exist)
[8] solely in the case of Morlachia
[9] in specific, the house, which serves as the titular Princes of Rapperswil in Switzerland, descends from the Habsburg-Laufenburg branch of the dynasty, which was founded in either 1249 or 1271 by Gottfried I, Count of Laufenburg, whose father, Count Rudolf III of Habsburg, was the uncle of Rudolf IV (I), King of Germany and first Habsburg Duke of Austria (a title which he gained in 1278, at that); for funsies, this would make Gottfried I the first cousin twice removed of John the Parricide, who foiled the first attempt of the Habsburgs at installing a hereditary monarchy in the Holy Roman Empire
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Empress Jessamine of Albion
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Jessamine (Jessamine Olivia Alberta Caroline; 27 November 1927 – 3 July 2015), most commonly known as Jessamine the Peacemaker, Jessamine the Ace or Jessamine the Great, was the Empress of Albion and her Dominions, Head of the Commonwealth and Queen of her Realms from 10 December 1954 until her death in 2015.

Born in Windlesham Moor, a cottage on the grounds of Windsor, as the eldest daughter and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later Emperor Leonard and Empress Olivia), Empress Jessamine was not set to become the ruler of Albion at the time of her birth, being fourth in line after her brothers and father and bumped down to 8th by 1943 when her father became emperor. Emperor Leonard’s favorite child, she entered the IAF at the age of 18, having been privately tutored until then, and served as a fighter pilot during the Second Mormon Uprising and the Second Mutiny. Following the start of the Second World War, Jessamine took command of the N.22 Group of the IAF, commanding the supply of qualified personnel to the IAF and training for all branches of the military, and was raised to the position of Assistant Chief of the Air Staff in May 1954, holding the position until January 1955.

Married in 1949 to Prince George of Cyprus, whom she had met during the Second Mormon Uprising after leading a rescue mission after he was kidnapped while working as a junior assistant to the imperial Representative in Oregon. In 1951 Jessamine’s life and career would change forevermore when, after months debating the situation both in the Cabinet and Parliament, her father passed the Imperial Succession Act of 1951, barring her eldest brother, Richard, from inheriting the throne and changing the succession to exceptional absolute primogeniture.

When her father died from his injuries in December 1954, Empress Jessamine assumed the throne of Albion and her empire during some of their darkest days, being in the middle of the Second World War. She reigned for the three remaining years of the conflict, following the emperor’s footsteps of remaining in the Home Isles no matter the threat posed at her. During her 60-year-long reign, the longest of an Albish emperor, Jessamine ruled through major political and societal changes in the empire, such as the separation of Bharat in 1959 and the development of the modern Commonwealth, the start of the Cold War, the Space Race and expansion, and the Second Era of Decolonization, which saw the empire federalize as her remaining colonies became Dominions, Imperial Kingdoms and Commonwealth Realms.

The face of the empire for over a century, with her last prime ministers being born after 1954, Empress Jessamine became known for her various international visits and meetings, including a state visit to the USSA, to the Mecca and to five popes. Significant events during her reign also included her coronation in 1960, the Moon Landing in 1961, the development of the Underground, the October Uprising and the celebrations of the Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees.

A heavy smoker since the age of 15, Empress Jessamine’s health began to fail her during the 2010s following a almost non-treated bladder cancer, and she passed away in her sleep at the age of 87 in 2015 from complications from her long-standing kidney failure, being mourned across the world. The empress was succeeded by her eldest daughter and child, Empress Eleanor
 
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Prince Arthur (1911-1934)
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Prince Arthur (Arthur Frederick Anthony Michael; 20 December 1911 - 1934), was a member of the Albish Imperial Family. He was the seventh child and youngest son of Emperor Henry and Empress Mary, and a granduncle of the current Albish Monarch, Empress Charlotte. Born during the early days of the First World War, he became known in 1924 when, after a visit of his Egyptian cousins, he declared his intention to convert to Islam at the age of 12, being the second and to this day last child of an Albish monarch to convert to Islam.

Zealous and eager in his new faith, he decided to perform the Hajj in 1926, where, two days after the end of the pilgrimage, he and his retinue disappeared as if from the face of the Earth in the way to Medina. Although searches were made across the Arabic Peninsula, none managed to find him, and he was declared dead in absentia in 1936.

Over forty years later, a dismembered skeleton was found during reforms in a family residence on the suburbs of Afif, on northwestern Najd, and after over two years of investigation and tests, it was discovered the body was of Prince Arthur, having died around the age of 22 from being dismembered with an axe. Following a repatriation process, he was buried in a small mausoleum in the City of the Dead in Cairo, near the Hosh al-Basha.​
 
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Empress Eleanor of Albion
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Eleanor (Mary Eleanor Constance Jane: 16 May 1950 – 10 October 2015), most commonly known as Eleanor the Brief or the ninety-nine days empress, was the Empress of Albion and her Dominions, Head of the Commonwealth and Queen of her Realms from 3 July 2015 until her death in October of that same year.

Born in Kew Palace, Richmond, the seven months into her parents’ marriage, as an originally minor royal who had a better shot to the throne of Cyprus than to Albion, the following year Empress Eleanor would become the second in line to the throne following the Imperial Succession Act of 1951. In 1954 she would become the Duchess of Cornwall and Rothesay upon the death of Emperor Leonard. In 1966 she was officially invested as Prince of Wales, being the first woman to be invested with the title (Empress Jessamine, although given the title, never went through an investiture).

Suffering from a severe scoliosis forcing her into back braces for most of her youth, Empress Eleanor was the first Albish monarch since Victoria the Great to not serve in the military, and instead became the first to ever hold a university degree, attending Trinity College, Cambridge, and Sommerville College, Oxford, as well as studying for a year at the University College of Dublin. From 1980 Empress Eleanor served as the Viceroy to South Africa and the Cape, and from 1995 to 2003 served as the Viceroy to Canada.

Married in 1974 to her first cousin, Prince Theodore August of Bharat, their marriage was marked by strife due to his homosexuality and her various affairs, causing the two to be permanently but not officially separate by 1990. Pregnant seven times, Empress Eleanor miscarried thrice and gave birth to two stillborn daughters, having only a single living child in 1977 with the birth of Prince Thomas. Born with a weak immune system and deaf after a battle with meningitis at th age of 3, the prince died in 1992 from pneumonia, making Eleanor the first Albish monarch since William IV to not be succeeded in a parent-to-child fashion.

Widowed in 2012 when the Duke of Cornwall was assassinated by Hindu Nationalists while in the Rajputana, where he served as Viceroy, Eleanor was known for her close relationship to her nephew, the current Prince of Wales, and was the godmother of the Duke of Cambridge. Succeeding to the throne in 2015 following her mother’s death, Empress Eleanor’s reign was a short one, as she was assassinated by the white supremacist terrorist group, GNP, while visiting South Africa, only 99 days into it. She was succeeded by her younger sister, Charlotte.
 
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Empress Charlotte of Albion
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Charlotte (Charlotte Tilda Marie Theresia; 16 April 1954), most commonly known as Empress Charlotte or The Astronaut, is the current monarch of Albion and her Dominions, the Head of the Commonwealth, and monarch of the Commonwealth Realms.

Born as the second daughter and third child of the Princess of Wales and the Duke of Cornwall (later Empress Jessamine and George the King Consort), only months before the death of Emperor Leonard in December of that year. Empress Charlotte was raised with her siblings at Windsor Castle until the age of 7, having stayed there for the remainder of the war and the rebuilding of Buckingham Palace. She was educated privately by tutors until the age of 9, before enrolling on Cheam Preparatory School in Berkshire, where she would stay for 3 years before being transferred to Gormenghast Institute, in Moray, studying there until 1972.

Attending Trinity College, Cambridge, and Aberystwyth University, Charlotte graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1976 before entering the Imperial Air Force, where she became known as a flying ace during the October Uprising, taking down over 20 IRA planes at Cork and leading the bombers division during the Red Monday. Moving to the Imperial Space Agency in 1984, Charlotte became the first member of the Imperial Family to be on orbit or space, staying for a total of 752 days outside of either the Earth or the Moon during her two decades as an astronaut, retiring in 2004 for medical reason with the rank of an Air Marshal.

Married to Prince Albert of Aotearoa, 17th Duke of St Albans, in 1980, having been in a relationship since a meeting at a New Year’s Ball in 1978, Charlotte was made Duchess of Norwich the week before the ceremony, declining an offer to be made the Queen of Quebec. An intermittent member of the House of the Lords for her first two decades there, being mostly known for her ardent and furious defense of ambientalist issues, loudly supporting the retaining of the highly controversial Preservation Laws of the 19th century. Following her retirement Charlotte served from 2005 to 2012 as Lord High Chancellor and Keeper of the Lords, stepping down after losing much of her vocal cords to throat cancer. From 2012 to 2014 she served as the Vicereine to Australia.

Second in line to the throne since her nephew’s death in 1992, Empress Charlotte became the heir presumptive in 2015 with her mother’s death, becoming a member of the Privy Council for the three months of her sister’s reign before succeeding Empress Eleanor upon her death. She is the fourth empress regnant of Albion, as well as the third empress to rule in 2015.

Her reign, although short at the moment, has been an eventful one, being marked by the harsh crackdown on white supremacist groups in South Africa in retaliation to Empress Eleanor’s assassination, the building of Victoria Tower in Hong Kong, the start of the Sokoto Civil War and the launching of the Ares IV mission to Mars. In 2019 the empress became the first Albish monarch since Victoria the Great to be predeceased by their consort when the Duke of St Albans died from the metastasized lung cancer he had been battling since 2014.

Upon her death the throne of Albion will be, for the first time since 1714, under the rule of a male-line descendant of the James VI & I, as the Duke of St Albans was a direct, if illegitimate, agnatic descendant of Charles II.
 
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