Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

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So, here is an wikipedia page version of my absolutist!Queen Victoria (I'm thinking about later on posting the boxes of her children and pages for her descendants)
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The Empress Victoria (called in Albion “Victoria, the Princess Royal” to not confuse her with her mother) was Victoria of Albion’s first child and daughter, and while considered by many as her mother’s least “interesting” child, the German Empress was still a remarkable woman in her own right among the colorful array that were her siblings, being known for her involvement in Prussian (and later German) politics and in shaping her children’s ideologies and personality. Raised in the political Frankenstein that was her mother’s court, Victoria grew up a staunchly conservative individual[1] and during her time as Crown Princess became known for her close friendship with Otto von Bismarck[2]. A believer in “the natural amity between Germany and Albion”, during her entire adult life she lobbied for the alliance between the two empires, which would culminate in the Great Coalition during the First World War.

A prolific writer, although she is remembered mostly for the novels of her widowhood[3], the empress also published under a pseudonym dozens of essays and pamphlets on politics and social theory[4], through which she also developed a long-standing enmity with Karl Marx[5]. Interested in architecture and art, after her husband’s death less than a year into his reign she retired from public life, living in a palace she ordered built on Kronberg in Taunus[6] and mostly only interacting with her children, of which Wolfgang[7], Eric[8], Sigismund[9] and Victoria[10] were the most important
1] Believing that only a strong hereditary monarch could maintain any form of government from devolving into some sort of mob-rule or be completely useless due to party-based instability, she was, however, a fervent suffragette, and basically used her tuberculosis to shame the government into giving women the vote in 1905, with it being passed literally the day of her death

[2] Whom she declared “that man knows what I am saying, if only he’d stop allying with the anti-Semites…”

[3] A total of 38, most of them steamy romances using her husband and herself as the basis for the bodies, they were all the rage in Europe during the turn of the century and retain a niche following to this day. She used the pseudonyms “Erika Lonergan” or “Michela Jürstein”

[4] Under the pseudonym “Albert Heinlein”, she published 1 manifesto and over 150 essays and pamphlets on her political opinions her social theory around monarchy and its importance to society at large

[5] As their beliefs were almost the complete antithesis of each other, and through the 1860s all the way to his death the two had a highly publicized and infamously violent enmity through words (they never met), either through letters or through critiques and jabs at each other’s beliefs

[6] Schloss Friedrichshof ended up becoming the traditional residence of German Empress dowagers or mothers

[7] Her undisputed favorite (even though he was born with a withered left arm), Victoria groomed him in politics together with Bismarck and was responsible for naming him that way (she loved Mozart, and strong-armed her husband into not naming him Wilhelm)

[8] Who was made the “Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg” by his grandfather in 1876 after winning it on a poker match

[9] Who disliked his parents, skedaddled to Albion at age 14 after a fight with his parents and entered the Navy under a false name, he was discovered only a decade later when he became a commodore at age 22, two years later he was made King of the Bahamas by his grandmother

[10] Called “the most vivacious princess of Europe”, who declared at age 11 she “wanted to be a boy so she could enter the army”, walked more in breeches than in a dress, and when she was 21 eloped with the son of Bismarck’s greatest rival and forced her father to make him a prince
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Empress Elizabeth, Victoria’s third child and the first of her brood to marry outside of the traditional protestant matches, as she was married in 1860 to the recently widowed[1] Kaiser Franz Joseph I of Austria, it was, while not one without its hiccups[2], a close and dedicated union, and the two of them were each other’s lovers, closest friends and confidants, and she served as his councilor and second-in-command.

Cunning and extremely intelligent, Elizabeth spent her tenure as empress first pestering and manipulating into, and later actually helping, her husband deal with the instabilities of the Austrian Empire, being one of the leaders of the proposal for the creation of a “United Hapsburg Empire”[3] and responsible for convincing the Austrian government to separate Venetia-Lombardy[4] after the War of 1866[5], besides helping with the creation of the Bosnian Kingdom[6] and gaining the throne of Cyprus[7] to one of her sons[8]. Although many times using of her husband’s semi-autocratic powers to get her way, Elizabeth was, in fact, a liberal, and supported the idea of an “executive-monarchy” in which the monarch retains the position of head of government and has powers similar to that of a president. Elizabeth was also something of a icon in the empire’s high society, and made kiwis a fashionable pet for the aristocratic woman[9]

A carrier of hemophilia, four of Elizabeth’s sons[10] and two of her daughters[11] would suffer or carry the disease
1] His first wife (and maternal first cousin), Duchess Elizabeth of Bavaria, died giving birth to their only son, Crown Prince Rudolph (1858-1889), from what is theorized to have been eclampsia

[2] The hemophilia was a source of grief, and she was constantly at odds with his mother

[3] A federalized empire made of “member-states” united under the common banner of imperial authority, it was a complicated and arduous process for it to be developed, and the territories of Galicia and the Dobruja still ended up seceding from it (even if both remained under Hapsburg rule in a way)

[4] Renamed after Lombardy was retaken in the Third Italian War, it was given to her eldest surviving son, Joseph (more commonly known as “Giuseppe” in his kingdom)

[5] One of the most humiliating moments in imperial history, but a necessary one in the long run, the War of 1866 (also known as the Austro-Prussian War) represented the end of Austria’s membership of the German Confederation and any larger German entity, and the only reason why Italy didn’t get it was due to sheer dumb luck

[6] Originally a “Condominium” under Austrian/Hapsburg rule, when the Balkan War started in 1908 they finally annexed it, but, understanding that it would be better if the empire didn’t add another multiethnic region to its territory, Elizabeth served as the head of the faction in the government who saw that an independent Bosnia was easier to administrate in general, which resulted in the Kingdom of Bosnia being created in 1909, ruled by one of the sons of Queen Valkyrie of Serbia, who was living in exile in Vienna since her husband’s assassination in 1903

[7] In the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War of 1878, Albion ended up acquiring Cyprus as a new territory but didn’t really desire to rule it outside of the useful naval bases it had, and so in 1880 it was decided that the island would become a kingdom within the empire

[8] Originally Empress Victoria was looking to make one of her male-line grandchildren the rulers of Cyprus, but Elizabeth sweet-talked her mother into giving the throne to the then 12-year-old Alexander, who would move to the island shortly after his enthronement to be groomed into the position

[9] Elizabeth gained a small nest of kiwis during the Imperial Tour’s stop at New Zealand, and ended up popularizing them as pets after bringing them with her to Austria (her mother and sisters did the same in Albion)

[10] Franz, Alexander, Fritz and Wadislaw, the first died young after bumping his head on a door, the second lived his entire life wearing a padded jacket, the third had mental health problems and killed himself at age 15 and the fourth wore a padded jacket to protect himself and died while sleeping with his lover at age 27 (he also went a wee-bit mad and though drinking human blood would cure him, although he had the decency of using people on the death row)

[11] Maria Antonia had a son who lived just long enough to have children, and Valkyrie had two sons, both who had the disease, living the same life as their uncle Alexander always fearful of dying from bumping into anything
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Princess Alice, who while completely uninterested in politics became famous (and infamous) for her quite unique for her personal life instead.
Married firstly to the Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine[1], it was during her years in Germany that she developed a deep interest in nursing, in special after hearing tales of intrepid nurses on the Crimea, and during it was during this marriage that she devoted her time to either her family or in managing hospitals[2] or actively nursing the sick. After an outbreak of diphtheria in 1878 which put most of her family to bed, Alice nearly died of a mix of exhaustion and the disease after nursing them for over a month without much rest. She would live on Hesse until 1886, having ruled as regent for her son for four years after her husband died of tuberculosis.
After ending her regency, Alice decided to return to Albion[3], and in 1888 decided to seek a career instead of continuing to be supported by the Civil List or the Crown Estates and enrolled in secret on the London School of Medicine for Women[4], being the first member of the royal family to have an occupation outside of the military or traditional royal duties and graduating with a degree of Master of Surgery[5].
Besides the scandal of her career, Alice was soon thereafter also involved in another when she remarried in 30 July 1830 to Lord Victor Cavendish[6], who was half her age, in a small ceremony on a civil parish in Woolwich, with her daughter[7] and his brother serving as the testimonies and the only attendees besides her son, her maid and his valet. A scandal for a multitude of reasons, during the first decade or so of the relationship the two ended up as the butt of jokes and caricatures[8] through the empire, and only gained some sense of respectability after the birth of their first son, which would be the first of five children[9].
A hemophilia carrier, of her many children, five of her daughters[10] were carries and two of her sons[11] had the disease
1] Originally the two were deeply in love with each other, but their relationship degenerated over the years to the point of barely being a friendship, and only recovered relatively when he was wasting away
[2] Field hospitals during the War of 1866, which consequentially basically ruined her relationship with her older sister Victoria
[3] Living in a rather low-profile house Piccadilly on a middle-class neighborhood, most people didn’t even know she was a princess until she moved in 1908, being known until then as “the widow Mrs. Lewis, who lives with her son Freddie and married a man half her age”
[4] Founded in 1874, it was the first medical school in Albion to train women as doctor (its entirely OTL, BTW)
[5] Although her mother was initially adamantly against it, Empress Victoria ended up mellowing down after a screaming match or two, and even was present during the graduation ceremony
[6] Who would end up becoming the 9th Duke of Devonshire in 1908, the two met while in a party hosted by his grandfather, the 8th Duke, in 1890, and the rest is history
[7] A colorful character by herself, having married her aunt’s brother-in-law (although she was rather close in age to Prince Louis, having been born in 1862 and he in 1854), she entered politics in 1895 after having herself naturalized as Albish and served as a MP from 1895 until her retirement in the 50s. Made Duchess of Halifax in 1945, she became known for being the Parliamentary Secretary for the Board of Trade from 1910 to 1916 and for passing the Bill of Parliamentary Garbs, which has meant that for the past century members of both Houses can only wear the type of clothing worn during the late 19th century, an unique quirk that has remained in place for the sake of tradition
[8] Who liked to show her as being an elderly seductress obsessed on conquering young men and him as a dumb fool who preferred sleeping with older women
[9] Of whom the most memorable have most certainly been Maud of Malta and Lady Isobel, the former was the first woman to reach the position of Admiral of the Fleet in the Imperial Navy (and was made “Princess of Malta” for it) while the latter is considered one of the world’s greatest chemists
[10] The Princesses Irene, Alix and Ludwiga of Hesse and by Rhine, Lady Isobel and Queen Blanche of Albania, all of whom had sons or female-line grandsons with the disease
[11] The Duke of Orkney and the Marquess of Aberdaugleddau and Gelliswick (sometimes called Marquess of Milford Haven and Gelliswick), both of whom would not live to the age of 50 but not live uneventful lives, as Frederick (who accompanied his mother) somehow entered the navy and managed not to die while serving on it, being made duke after his marriage to Princess Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont at age 25 (she was considered a spinster), and served during the First Great War during the Siege of Jamaica, while Charles entered politics as an MP for Flinsbury, being made a marquess while in a coma after hitting his head in a doorframe (which would result in his death at age 48
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King George I of Bengal, originally title the “Duke of York” before he was made one of the first kings of the empire in 1880, during his time as a duke he developed a reputation as a roughish playboy, being infamously fond of luxury and a wee bit hedonism[1], which was said to have only developed after his enthronement, as the Victoria Palace[2] became famous for its lavish court with balls and parties periodically, and the “harem” that George was said to have[3] was the victim of constant caricatures on the press, in special after he drastically expanded it[4].

A liberal man, who during his reign gave Bengal a parliament[5], helped the economy[6] and supported local artists, intellectuals and craftsmen[7]. Although never converting to Hinduism, he is recorded as having become and Indo-Anglican[8] by the time of his death, and asked to follow more Hindu burial traditions when he died[9].
1] To the point of being considered “special clientele” by high class brothels in Albion and France, one of which made him a special chair just so he would have an easier time “coupling” with the workers

[2] OTL Government House in Kolkata, was the residence of the Governor-General of India from 1858 to 1931

[3] Although would like to say it was simple caricatures of the king, he did in fact had over 15 mistresses during his time in Bengal, of which only 2 weren’t of Indian origins, and had for most of it more than a single one at a time. With them he had nine children besides his legitimate ones

[4] Already a large palace when he took it, by the time of George’s death it was a lavish complex in par with the one of the great princes and kings of the subcontinent, it cost a large penny and his grandson was the one to finish paying the bill

[5] Established in 1895, the Bengali Parliament is based on the Westminster System, originally with a House of Lords made of 224 members and a House of Commons made of 670 of them (nowadays it’s over thrice that size), of all those peers, most where local Bengalis of Anglo-Indians (and many who were already local nobility and were simply made part of the peerage), of them there were 15 dukes, 24 marquesses, 97 earl, 13 viscounts and the rest an amalgamation of barons and lords

[6] George believed the best way to enrich Bengal was to industrialize, and by the time of his death Calcutta was in route to being a “London of the East”, as an Albish journalist once said, although the pollution of the Ganges would take nearly 2 decades to be solved because of it

[7] As he was known for having fallen in love with the culture

[8] He quite certainly was reaching the point of believing that all Hindu gods were aspects of God

[9] He asked that his body be cremated in a pyre floating down the Ganges
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Empress Margaret of Brazil, the second among her siblings to marry a catholic, having married Dom Afonso of Brazil after years of a letter-based courtship[1], she is also infamous among them for being the only one of her sisters to never visit Albion after her marriage, and only leaving Brazil once after it[2].

Remarkably shy and known for her deep love of tea[3] and literature[4], Margaret became famous in Brazil for her expansion of the tea industry[5] and support of local writers and artists[6] during her time as Princess Imperial, which have been for decades only overshadowed by her dedication and championing of industrialization[7] and abolitionism, going so far as to free all slaves owned by the Crown during her husband’s second regency[8].

Originally content with pushing for reforms but not actively antagonizing the landowning elites of the empire, her life and opinions would be drastically changed by 1889, when a failed coup against her father-in-law[9] started a 16-year-long civil war that would mark her time as empress[10], radicalize the imperial couple[11] and completely upend Brazilian society[12].

After the war ended with an imperial victory, her life would never be the same, and she would become known for taking a variety of causes, from land distribution[13], to women’s rights[14], to helping the poor[15] to natural preservation[16], and later created a government-run orphanage system to deal with the large amount of orphans of the First Great War[17], which she would run intermittently throughout her widowhood[18]

Margaret was the last of her siblings to pass way, dying at age 105 from breast cancer after years suffering from Alzheimer[19], and was buried in the Imperial Pantheon of the Braganzas, in Petrópolis[20]
1] The two of them met during the Royal Family’s stop in Brazil during the Imperial Tour, and struck a friendship during the near month they stayed there, exchanging letters for the next decade before being officially betrothed

[2] Margaret made a short visit to Argentina in the 1930s, reportedly to spit on the grave of her husband’s murder

[3] Margaret loved growing, brewing and drinking tea, and even had a small farm of it near the Petrópolis Imperial Palace

[4] She loved reading, and even dabbled on writing in her later years when she wrote her memories in 1940s

[5] Although coffee remains the most consumed infusion in the country, tea is also a common beverage, in special the cold variations or the mate in the south

[6] A liker of Brazilian Realism, Margaret helped create the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL) in 1877 and was an admirer of Machado de Assis, whom her husband granted an earldom in 1897 by her insistence

[7] Believing that the way for a nation to grow was the industrial development seen in Albion, Margaret strongly defended that Brazil develop beyond exporting cash crops, and went as far as to actively establish factories and even bail out the Viscount of Maua, which was Brazil’s greatest industrial but nearly went bankrupt in the 1870s

[8] This put her and her similarly-minded husband at odds with the large slave-owning aristocracy of the South and Southwest, although even with her staunch abolitionism Margaret believed that the empire would need to give monetary compensation to the slave owners like Britain had done, calling it “a necessary evil”

[9] Led by the Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca (believed nowadays to have been a useful scapegoat), the Coup of 15 November 1889 had the objective of establishing a republic in Brazil by deposing the emperor and his cabinet, it was supported by large republican factions in the military and aristocracy, and had an unspoken support of the Church, who had been at odds with Dom Pedro II for years

[10] The Brazilian Civil War (which also involved the Anglo-La Platan War when La Plata tried to intervene after Albion also intervened on the conflict), it was a make-it-or-break-it in the empire’s history and killed around 50.000 people across Brazil, seeing battles in the Southwest, Northwest and even in the Amazon, on one side were the Republicans, supported by the republican and slave-owning factions of the aristocracy (after slavery was abolished in 1888) and having around 50% of the original military, and the Imperials, supported by the poor, middle-class and freed slaves, together with backing from Albion. It lasted until 1905 and was more than once a near-victory for the republicans, who controlled major centers of power and population for years

[11] Originally the two were fine with reaching a compromise with the republicans, by the end, the only thing they didn’t do was say that “no quarter is to be given” in relation to them, and were rather vindictive in the punishment of the rebels

[12] The war, most of all, broke the pre-existing social norms in the empire, as its aftermath saw the ruin of most of the old landowning aristocracy of the Southwest and South, which majorly supported the republicans and saw their lands either taken or were fined so heavily they had to use them as payment, the end of the agrarian economy of Brazil, as the monarchy pursued as heavy development of state-run industry during and after the war, and the enfranchisement of the poor and most of the black and mulatto population, who had made most of the early supporters of the imperials and basically sustained the imperial army through the conflict

[13] Which would happen through the 1910s and 20s by granting of lands in the Middle-West to freed slaves and immigrants, most of the old great farms taken from the old aristocracy became (and many times remain) state-run affairs

[14] Which culminated with women gaining the right to vote in 1910 and Empress Victoria being passed over her brothers to the throne

[15] She gave many donations to poor relief, and is credited as one of the inspirations for the “Bolsa Familia”

[16] While her mother defended animal protection, Margaret was more focused on nature, and at the same time that she proposed the industrialization of Brazil she also defended that the nature within its border be protected and that it have an equilibrium in cities, defending the city-planning that is now standard in Brazil of mixing the urban sprawl with large green pockets (the most famous example being the network of parks around the shores of the rivers of São Paulo City)

[17] The conflict and the Swiss Flu are estimated to have orphaned over half a million of children in Brazil alone

[18] Mostly from her residence in the Petrópolis Imperial Palace, more commonly know as the “Dowager’s House”

[19] Starting to show symptoms in the 1940s while writing her memories, by 1951 the empress was constantly accompanied by a nurse and a maid, and had become so senile she could rarely remember even her own name and barely spoke, ad her family seems to have been relieved of not having to see her suffer anymore from it

[20] The Imperial Pantheon, which was founded in 1910 to bury the Empress Theresa Christina, is the traditional burial grounds of the Brazilian Imperial Family located on far east of Petrópolis, unlike most cemeteries (and the Royal Pantheon in Portugal, which is a mausoleum), it is more akin to an open field, as the graves are dug near trees, and has the unique quirk that all dead are buried in shrouds without embalming; Margaret herself was buried beside her husband under a willow the two had planted there in 1898 (it originally was a personal retreat of theirs)
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Princess Ophelia, more commonly known as “Empress Eudoxia Antonova” outside of Albion and the one among her siblings to marry into Russian Orthodoxy. During her youth the most active and “unruly” amongst the children of Empress Victoria, known for having a feisty personality and love of the thrill of life[1] and being considered quite the antithesis of what a “respectable woman” of the time would be, Ophelia became rather infamous across Europe in 1865, when during Grand Duke Alexander of Russia’s visit to Albion[2] she eloped with the royal[3] and the two were hastily married soon after[4].

A sharer of Alexander’s beliefs on government[5] but quite fond of ethnic minorities[6], during her time as empress consort Ophelia focused most of her efforts in either raising her children[7] or nurturing the damaged image of the Romanov Dynasty[8], and while dowager she had to work twice as hard so her children didn’t do any damage[9], by any means necessary[10]. Her main enforcer was the Baron Lenin[11].

Losing many of her siblings on the 1910s and 20s and many relatives in the First Great War, Empress Eudoxia died a melancholic woman, whose grandson ruled only part of a Russia who was only in the start of a long era of conflict, and whose dreams of an united Russian Empire were crushed by a conflict too large even for it
1] Normally spending her days either escaping tutors, on a shooting range, playing pranks or riding across the royal estates

[2] Who was doing the traditional “tour” of a young male aristocrat

[3] Having become acquaintances during his time there, the two actually hated each other for around the first year of their relationship, but still couldn’t stay out of each-other’s clothes, hate-powered sex devolved into toleration and culminated in a actually loving relationship

[4] When his brother died in late 1865, it was expected that Alexander, now Tsarevich, would marry Dagmar of Denmark (as the late Nicholas had wished his brother to marry his bride), but, against those plans, Princess Ophelia ended up getting pregnant from their escapades, and they were married in quite a hurry, with the future Nicholas II being born in May 1866, 4 months after their ceremony

[5] Ophelia once said to her husband “your father’s greatest decision was the end serfdom, but even then that fool managed to screw up”, although she also understood that an autocrat should know to delegate, which caused a great number of discussions among her family due to her son’s literal-mindedness

[6] In her late years, she characterized it in a quite interesting way “humanity is like a banquet, and peoples are the dishes. Now tell me, would you like if all banquets only had a single one?”

[7] A protective helicopter parent, Ophelia disliked having her children out of her sight and after Alexander II’s assassination ordered that they be at all places with at least a guard and learn how to defend themselves, which proved to be quite the genius when Nicholas II killed a man trying to assassinate him in 1897

[8] The russification and genocides, besides the lackluster works of Alexander II in relation to the poor and other social classes, really took a tool in the prestige of the Imperial Family, and at the same time that she mellowed her husband’s views (Alexander took over a decade in the throne to stop thinking some sense of ethnic homogeneity was needed in Russia) Ophelia worked to present the Imperial Family as symbol of unity for the gigantic empire (she also supported the mass-migration of Old Believers to Alyeska, later ruled by one of her sons (who himself became an Old Believer), but no-one likes to mention it)

[9] Nicholas II’s literal-mindedness in government and his family problems (having his three sons be all hemophiliacs) almost ruined the family, as did some of her other children’s scandals

[10] Ophelia was famously fond of gardening, and the gardens of her palace at Tsarskoye Selo remain charming even a hundred years after she created them

[11] Originally only known for being a university professor and journalist who created the theory for social-monarchism, documents released in the 1990s revealed his position as the head of the empress’ secret police
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A misanthropic, anxious and chronically depressed woman who also had selective mutism[2], Georgiana’s life has been historically characterized by her marriage, which was promised in 1871 after Albion helped prop-up France d’Outre-mer[3] but took an entire decade to come into fruition[4], during which time she served as lady-in-waiting to Empress Eugénie at the imperial court in Dakar[5]; after finally marrying at age 33 when her husband finally took a break on his wars[6] life didn’t get any easier, as Georgiana became responsible for controlling the court and serving as the host of all foreign and domestic dignitaries[7]. Only after entering widowhood that her life became more easier, retiring to her beloved Millefleur[8] where she would live for the remainder of her days[9].

Although a caring mother, Georgiana was rather hands-off in raising her children, who grew up mostly surrounded by local tutors and servants[10]. She would not live to see their empire crumble[11]
1] Incapable of walking without a special brace sustaining her left side, Georgiana would live with a constant literal pain on the leg and in her later years be forced to use a wheelchair to move due to her muscles and bones not managing to do the work in giving a foundation to the brace

[2] Georgiana disliked staying around other people and had as her closest friend her dogs and flowers, who would be largely the only things she would utter words to, and was known to be always in some state of melancholy or sadness

[3] Technically still the Second French Empire, France d’Outre-mer was a state born of the Franco-Prussian War of 1871, when in its aftermath Napoleon III was deposed in Metropolitan France but managed to hold the allegiance of some colonies in West Africa and the Pacific, while also being supported by Albion (who was basically the empire’s lifeline before Napoleon IV’s conquests)

[4] Firstly her husband was fourteen when they were betrothed and after reaching his majority he stalled the marriage constantly, as he didn’t actually want to marry her (some joked he was hoping she would die of some tropical disease if he waited long enough. She managed to beat Malaria )

[5] An agitated and lively court, she was miserable in there

[6] During his reign Napoleon IV fought over 10 wars against either France (who only recognized his empire in 1884) or West African native kingdoms (whom he subjugated in what has been called “The Second Continental System”), besides even having an expedition to establish control over French Polynesia. His dream of conquering Algeria, though, was never realized

[7] She was so overwhelmed by it that a courtesan once wrote “the empress is the living embodiment of pitifulness”

[8] Built by her orders between 1890 and 1896 on the outskirts of Dakar, the Millefleur Palace (named after the gigantic garden complex around it) has been called “The Versailles of Africa”, being the most opulent and exuberant building made during the empire’s lifetime

[9] With a workforce made mostly of semi-nude manservants

[10] And absorbed some local customs and even language, with Princess Eugénie, for example, speaking her nanny’s Wolof better than French and Princess Esmé talking in a creole mix so thick her husband didn’t understand her words during their marriage, while Napoleon V was almost averse to European-style clothing, and preferred a variety of tunics

[11] Already mostly a federation of various native kingdoms under the rule of the Emperor from Dakar, the empire ended up crumbling after the death of Napoleon V in 1929 as the southern kingdoms broke away while the crownlands were held onto by his children together with the northern vassals, establishing the Second Mali Empire in 1948
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King Victor I of Bombay, originally the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn before gaining the throne in 1880, he was one of the three children of Empress Victoria to look for a career on the military, entering the Army at age 16 and serving on it for 12 years before retiring upon his enthronement, having been deployed for most of that time on India, where he became the head of the Bombay Army[1].

A serious and pragmatic person[2] who when not with family spent most of his time either working or on some sort of public event[3], Victor’s rule over Bombay was one marked by being based on him as the center of the machine of bureaucracy, and it was only in 1928 that he gave the kingdom a parliament[4] as he believed he didn’t need one to do his job well[5].

An Indo-Anglican like his older brother and his wife[6] but much less interested in the arts than him[7], Victor dedicated himself on supporting education, which was made compulsory to all children between the ages of 8 and 14 in 1903.
1] Ever since the Imperial Tour Victor had become infatuated with the subcontinent, and during his time as a soldier he spent almost a decade in India, serving as the commander of the Bombay Army from 1878 to 1880 before it was disbanded into the Royal Army of Bombay in 1880

[2] Disliking small-talk and having piano and dactylography as his main hobbies, Victor’s nickname in the press and even with his servants was “the Cold One” due to his tendency to almost never show any emotion (the only recorded time he smiled was in the birth of his first child, a nurse fainted after looking at him)

[3] His wife was enraged once when he started doing paperwork at their son’s 15th anniversary

[4] Based off Westminster, initially with 180 lords and 240 commons, most of them Indians or Anglo-Indians

[5] It was a mix of age knocking at the door and his son’s more liberal leanings that convinced Victor to do it, together with start delegating more after years of having the smallest personal staff possible

[6] The Princess Louise of Prussia, who married Victor exactly a year before his enthronement, she openly stated to praying both to God and a myriad of Hindu deities and asked to be cremated after her death, Victor was of a similar leaning to her, and their urns are together within the Royal Catacombs of Bombay

[7] Victor called his brother’s support of artists and craftsmen (together with his buildings) an “overt spending” and that the money could be “used on something other than frivolities” in a letter to his sister Beatrice, in 1905
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King Cedric I of Portugal[1], the last of his siblings to marry a catholic.

A lover of the sea since childhood and entering the navy at age 14[2], Cedric’s youth was one marked by sailing through the Mediterranean and being considered as a contender for various thrones, first as a husband to the Queen of the Hellenes[3], then as the heir of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha[4] and lastly as his wife’s husband[5], whom he married in 1885 with great fanfare.

Although originally a king in name only[6], focusing his time in developing the Portuguese Navy[7] or in easing up relations between Portugal and Albion[8] or with Portugal’s vassals[9], Cedric’s involvement in governance would change drastically in 1908, when his wife and eldest son where assassinated[10] and he was forced to take control, dealing with not only the fallout of the assassination but also having to fight a republican uprising[11] and stabilize the country while his grandson grew up[12].

Ruling as an undisputed absolute monarch[13], Cedric abdicated in 1923 after his grandson reached majority, and died a year later of tuberculosis, leaving behind a large collection of glass and ceramic wares
1] Made king together with his wife, Carlota, as Portuguese law says that the consort of a female monarch is also a king by law (he was also the only Cedric to ever rule Portugal)

[2] Cedric would serve on it for 20 years, and reach the position of Rear-Admiral before retiring when his wife became regent of Portugal during her father’s last years

[3] Irene of the Hellenes, who was born in 1846 and was considered as one of the most eligible bachelorettes on Europe (her father, Otto, died in 1863 under suspicious circumstances). In the end she married the Prince William of Denmark in 1865, with him taking the name George upon his conversion to Greek Orthodoxy. Cedric and Irene actually met in the 1870s, and became friends for a lifetime

[4] His paternal uncle, Ernst II, was childless until age 66, when in 1884 he had a son with his second wife, Grand Duchess Maria of Russia (his first wife, the dutiful Alexandrine of Baden, died in a carriage accident in 1883. Like with her, he constantly flaunted mistress in front of Maria, who many joked had murdered him)

[5] Like Irene, Carlota was considered one of the most sought-after brides in Europe, seeing as she and her sister were literally the only candidates to the Portuguese Throne due to two branches being ineligible to it

[6] As was the tradition for king consorts of Portugal

[7] Cedric was given command of the Navy in 1888, and worked tirelessly to bring it to par with the Royal Navy

[8] Being responsible for proposing the compromise between them (basically Albion agreed to give Portugal the right to use the region to connect Angola and Mozambique while Portugal agreed to recognize Albion’s de facto control over the territory)

[9] In special the Kingdom of Kongo, who was promised to have its independence guaranteed by Portugal and even had a royal marriage thrown in the mix, with Cedric’s youngest daughter marrying King Manuel III in 1914

[10] The infamous Lisbon Regicide, it occurred in February 1st, 1908, when two assailants, Manuel Buíça and Alfredo Luís da Costa, attacked the royal carriage while the entire royal family was returning from their country retreat, managing to kill both the Queen and the Prince Royal and injure all other members of the family, on its aftermath Cedric took over as regent, and had the assassins, who had died in the crossfire, be cremated as a post-mortem punishment

[11] Basically a coup mixed with barricades in Portugal’s major cities, caused in part by the republican factions of the Portuguese government feeling emboldened by the assassination

[12] King Pedro VI was the son of Luís, Prince Royal, with his mistress, and later morganatic wife, Joana dos Santos Marrocos, having been made legitimate when his grandmother forced the two of them to marry in 1905 a month after his birth

[13] After the uprising Cedric used his leverage in the Navy to take full dictatorial powers, his grandson would be the one responsible for returning Portugal to some sense of democracy
 
(Had to divide the post in two)
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King Leonard of Madras, who has been consistently counted as one of the most colorful and interesting characters of the Victorian Era, he was never a man interested in politics or the military like most of his brothers, and, instead, became known on his youth for being a “hooligan”[1] and having a bohemian and hedonistic lifestyle[2] that shocked even the more liberals on society, although his children managed to outshine him on that matter[3]

Raised to the position of king almost against his will[4] and mostly delegating government to his main secretary[5] and parliament[6], Leonard’s reign, which basically started with his “local marriage”[7], was one marked by his popularity among his subjects[8] and his constant travels through the subcontinent[9], which served as a source of constant inspiration for his paintings[10], besides the fact that he was the only one of his siblings to “convert” to Hinduism[11].​

1] Leonard loved pranking peole and causing mischef (together with “loving a good brawl”)

[2] His residence, Clarence House, was called a “den of vice and sin” by high society, as it was said that he never held a single ball within it, but still had many guests almost every evening…

[3] Sonamoni married a first cousin after they slept together at his brother’s wedding, Rajna married a washerwoman, Benedict het 3 wives who were all sisters, Vincent was married at age 5 to the Queen of Burma (whose father had started the Third Anglo-Burmese war and lost, badly), Catherine most certainly slept more with her sister-in-law than with her husband, and Frederick had 65 wives

[4] Leonard was perfectly fine in living a life of luxury as a prince, which was rather against the empress’ wishes

[5] The position of Private Secretary of the King has been Madras’ equivalent of a Prime Minister ever since

[6] Westminster style, with intially 100 lords and 300 commons

[7] He was married to one of the daughters of the Maharaja Krishnaraja III of Mysore only a month after being made king

[8] One thing Leonard was good at was charming people

[9] Of his reign’s 34 years, around 6 were spent in total doing some sort of traveling

[10] Leonard was a talented painter of scenes and portraits, with his over three hundred works being mostly shown in the Royal Gallery of Madras, among them are included the portraits of every member of his family

[11] Although George and Victor openly believed on the Hindu gods, Leonard was the only one to openly identify himself as not being Christian (although not officially), although he still ate fish, poultry and goat meat (his son, Frederick, remained an Indo-Anglican, as do most of his descendants)
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Princess Beatrice, the Duchess of Albany, the child to whom Victoria was the closest[1], although most unremarkable in her personality and rather shy demeanor, during her lifetime Beatrice reached levels of power only matched by her brother Arthur during their mother’s reign, serving as her Private Secretary from 1876 until her death[2] and using it on her favor[3]

Believed for a time to be in route to becoming a spinster, Beatrice ended up falling in love and marrying Prince Henry of Battenberg in 1880[4], and, unlike her sisters and most women of the era, having him marry into the royal family instead of the opposite[5], receiving her noble title in the process[6].

After her mother’s death, Beatrice served as the executor of her will, being responsible for sealing her complete diaries in a century-old vault[7] and publish an edited version that took 30 years to complete[8] and marked most of her elderly years, only sharing time with serving as a main retainer on the imperial court of her brother and nephew and visiting the empire[9], finally dying at age 93 at her personal residence, Peacock Park[10]

A carrier of hemophilia, her only daughter and two of her sons had the disease[11], and in her later years Beatrice had to contend with the fact that she outlived all her children[12]
[1] Only her younger brother Michael could rival Beatrice’s position on that regard (until he moved to Oregon)

[2] Beatrice’s position made her the person needed for anyone outside of the cabinet to enter contact with the empress, and the princess used that position to gain favors across the political classes of the empire and Europe, with her nephew Henry once joking that she had half of Albion in her debt (many believe that the building of her seaside manor on Cornwall and the Peacock Palace were paid by those favors)

[3] The main residences of the Duke of Albany, Peacock Palace in Chelsea and the Chesrie Manor in seaside Cornwall were mostly paid by Beatrice using her favors to take “monetary gifts” from her various rich indebted, including Albion’s main industrials and nobles

[4] The morganatic relative of the Grand Dukes of Hesse and by Rhine (and whose brother was Beatrice’s nephew by law), the two of them met while his family was visiting the Albish court in the 1870s and fell in love, with Beatrice convincing her mother to permit the union after she promised to remain her secretary, having taken the position after the Prince Consort’s death in 1876

[5] Although not in the sense of taking the name, Henry’s life after the marriage was much more akin to him marrying into the House of Windsor than the opposite, which has since been their modus operanti when daughters marry untitled men

[6] Beatrice was made Duchess of Albany upon her marriage in 15 July, 1880, and following the laws on styles of children of royal princesses, all her offspring were considered princes and princesses of the empire, instead of inheriting only their father’s styles

[7] Empress Victoria, knowing that many of the people spoken on her diaries were still alive, ordered her daughter to edit them into a version that could be published, while also taking the originals and locking them in a safe to be open a century later, in 2008

[8] After it Beatrice also ventured in writing a biography of the Duchess of Kent, her grandmother, and Duchess Augusta of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

[9] Beatrice loved traveling, and had a special care for New Zealand ever since the Imperial Tour, even having as her favorite pet she found during a visit there in 1898, in a later visit the pet, which was female, ended up pregnant, and is the progenitor the famous “Duke of Albany Sea Lions”

[10] Built by Beatrice mostly out of money that she collected from favor between 1905 and 1909, serving as the seat of the Dukes of Albany to this day, Peacock Park is a tall neoclassical building occupying a block in the district of Twickenham in Kingston-upon-Thames, famous for being taller than it is wider (with 8 stories and a tower to the side) and for being mostly painted in a warry of colors similar to a peacock

[11] Maurice, who married his first cousin Wilhelmina (and who had a daughter, Caroline, who was hemophiliac and died during her first period at age 16) and died at age 25, Victoria, whose eldest and youngest sons had the disease, and Thomas, who died at age 35 during a knee surgery

[12] Victoria Eugenie died on the Regicide of Barcelona in 1943, Alexander died of the Swiss Flu in 1922 and Leopold died of wounds from action during the First Great War
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Princess Emma, who was also Princess Dowager of Orange and ruled as regent of the Netherlands during her daughter’s minority.

A charming and dutiful woman, her marriage to Prince Alexander of the Netherlands (heir from 1879 to his death) was frankly miserable, as he was mentally ill[1] after his mother’s death and left her to basically do her best to deal with their relationship, which ended with his death from typhus. After it, many say that Emma became quite close to her father-in-law, King William III, and there were even whispers that they were having an affair[2].

Made regent to the king when he became bedridden in 1887, she continued to hold the position after his death in 1889, and ruled as her daughter’s regent until Wilhelmina reached majority in 1900, being known for taking her position extremely seriously, going as far as meeting every government minister at least once every two weeks and strictly adhering to the rules of the constitutional monarchy. In addition to that, she also paid great attention to her daughter’s upbringing[3].

A carrier of hemophilia, every ruling queen of the Netherlands would inherit it from her[4]
[1] Most agree he suffered from some sort of depression

[2] Emma’s diaries show that they were simply friends, united because her daughter was his only living legitimate descendant

[3] Emma dedicated herself tirelessly so that Wilhelmina would be the most capable to rule the Netherlands, with her tutors going from government to history, to culture to even how to speak with different accents depending on the region she was. After 1898, when she reached 16, Emma also added etiquette to her lessons

[4] From 1851 until 1988 no male was born in the House of Orange-Nassau, and somehow the hemophiliac gene was continuously passed down the line, with the three sons of Queen Emma (daughter of Queen Beatrix and grand-daughter of Queen Juliana, daughter of Queen Wilhelmina), William, Prince of Orange, Louis and Constantin, having the disease
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Princess Guinevere, more commonly known as “Empress Miriam” after her conversion to Ethiopian Orthodoxy[1].

Born during the Imperial Tour[2], Guinevere was a woman known less for her personality, which was considered by many as being “rather bland”[3], and more for her marriage, as in 1890 she was married to Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia to seal a treaty between his country and Albion[4] and ended up securing the Ethiopian line of succession[5] when she gave birth to a son a year into their marriage[6], although his difficult birth left her barren.

Never involved in the politics of the empire, Guinevere mostly left the affairs of court to her husband’s previous wife[7], and after his death lived a secluded life in the Gebi[8] until her death from what was probably a brain tumor
[1] Miriam being a rough translation of her first name, Mary”

[2] Born during a tropical storm in the Seychelles, the fort were Empress Victoria gave birth was named after her in 1862

[3] Guinevere is theorized to have suffered from autism and when not interested in something (loved dresses) she tended to simply shut down

[4] Basically an agreement that in exchange for Ethiopia allying herself to Albion the empire would swear to guarantee the country’s independence

[5] Menelik only had two daughters, Shoaregga and Zewditu, and there were fears that their gender would give opportunity to usurpers or disputes over who had the right over the throne

[6] Born Kifle Yaqob in 1891 and taking the name “Salomon IV” upon his ascension to the throne, his reign was rather peaceful, outside of the civil war when his cousin, Haile Selassie, tried to take the throne with the backing of the French

[7] The formidable Taytu Betul, she was the one in fact responsible for proposing that he marry Princess Guinevere (Taytu was barren and thought it would be a good bet, seeing as one of Guinevere’s sisters was married to the Sultan of Egypt) and remained in a “common law” marriage to Menelik until his death, besides being a close friend to Guinevere, who saw her as a mentor

[8] The palace complex that serves as the official residence of the emperor
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King Michael I of Oregon (also Grand Duke of Columbia), who was born prematurely during the Imperial Tour[1] and suffered from hemophilia[2].

Called “the baby” among his relatives due to his frail health and body[3], Michael was an incredibly intelligent man who, during his time before becoming king, became known for being a dedicated student and intellectual, which left Oxford with a honorary doctorate in civil law.

Made king of Oregon[4] in 1880 after a year discussing it with his mother[5], and moving there in 1882 after his marriage[6], Michael’s reign, marked by his popularity with the common folk[7] and nobility[8], was a successful one, being marked by the development of industry and by a growth in population[9] although the kingdom lacked a Parliament until 1924[10]

Dying due to his disease in 1891[11], although Michael has bene a memorable figure, his children have undoubtedly outshined him[12]
[1] The fleet had sailed out of Edo just 3 days before his birth

[2] Michael was discovered to have the disease before the turn of 1859 (the crossing of Cape Horn involved him being placed inside a padded box held onto by his mother)

[3] Born with weak lungs due to his premature delivery, Michael had chronic asthma and nearly died of some sort of cold over 15 times during his lifetime

[4] Although originally the territory was called Columbia (after the British managed to snatch the entire region from the Americans by helping over 40.000 Irish move there during the Great Famine, completely overpopulating the American pioneers, who were mostly expelled after their failed Uprising in the 1870s), the name the Americans had given to the region, Oregon, managed to gain some following after 1840, and in 1875 the region was renamed (Columbia is nowadays more of a name for the lands held by the king in direct rule)

[5] Victoria originally didn’t plan on having her son become a king, since his health always worried her, but Michael over time convinced her to grant him Oregon, which had been good for his health during the Imperial Tour

[6] Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, who was, in fact, the sister of one of his nieces-in-law (and served as regent for their daughter)

[7] The royal couple enacted many social works to help the poor and became known for their good looks and charm, which helped with their popularity

[8] Michael’s influence over the nobility was especially necessary, since, unlike his brother’s kingdoms and most Albish colonies, Oregon was basically a feudal nation outside of the regions around the Salish Sea, as settlement (outside of the Irish settlement and the Tokugawa Land Grant) of the entire kingdom was basically left to the settlers (which was helped by the fact that Oregon never entered the Canadian Confederacy), which over the course of 40 years basically developed into a North American version of Middle Ages Europe. One of Michael’s jobs was, in fact, granting titles to those unofficial “lords” and to the many native chiefs who also ruled over parts of the kingdom

[9] Mostly due to the mass expulsion of Native Americans and Mexicans from the American West (due to the loss of Oregon, the US ended up annexing more of Mexico, taking Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahua)

[10] When Emma I created a Tudor-style Parliament to gain more control over the nobility, who new had to follow the laws established by the parliament (although they still remain their domain’s executive heads to this day, and have the right to contest laws made by the House), the monarch of Oregon remains one of the most powerful within the kingdoms

[11] While visiting a friend of his, Duke Anthony McCarthy, Michael tripped and bashed his head in a table, dying of a brain hemorrhage two days later

[12] Although Albert died at age 7 from polio, Emma I was compared to Catherine the Great in her handling of the nation and made Oregon an industrial powerhouse, Alice, who married the Duke Tokugawa Iemori of Edo, was responsible for building Fort Briggs and breaking all the 15 charges made by the Americans against the eastern border, and Mary was comparable to her husband, Manfred, in her dominion over the skies of the Northwestern American Front in the First Great War
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Prince Henry, more commonly known as Henry, Prince Consort, in relation to Madagascar, he was the last son of Empress Victoria and the second son to marry a reigning monarch.

A melancholic man, known for his tendency to spend most of his time either alone reading or playing with his dogs[1], in 1892 he was married to Queen Ranavalona III of Madagascar in a completely unexpected move, as it was completely against the political basis of her kingdom[2] and was basically the Prime Minister’s last bid to save Malagasy independence[3], who was from them onwards guaranteed by the Albish[4].

Serving as consort to a figurehead monarch, Henry spent his days mostly by himself and rarely interacting with the Queen after they had their twin daughters[5], and he constantly traveled outside of Madagascar, dying shortly after returning from a year-long-visit to Albion from malaria
[1] He shared his mother’s love of Pomeranians

[2] The custom of the time was that the ruling queen of Madagascar would be married to her prime minister as an way of cementing the political arrangement between the nobility and freemen that had ruled the kingdom since the aristocratic revolution of 1863 (in which King Radama II was deposed by his prime minister, Rainilaiarivony’s older brother, and his wife, Rasoherina, put in the throne as a figurehead)

[3] Although Rainilaiarivony had managed to for year use his diplomatic skills and political acumen to protect the kingdom’s independence, the French started becoming more bold in the 1890s, and he feared that without a strong alliance to the Albish soon the kingdom would fall to them

[4] Which it did; when the last Franco-Hova War occurred in 1895, the army was made more of Albish soldiers than native malagasy

[5] Ranavalona IV was basically Madagascar’s version of OTL Queen Victoria
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Princess Charlotte, who was the last of her siblings to marry[1]

Known in her youth for being quite “strange”[2] and feared to end up becoming a spinster, Charlotte, nonetheless, met and fell in love with Prince Christian of Denmark[3], then second-in-line to the Danish throne, and after a short engagement[4] married, living in Amalienborg.

Becoming Queen of Denmark with King Frederick’s sudden death in 1907 and then Queen Regent after her husband’s assassination in 1916[5], outside of her fight for the inheritance[6], Charlotte’s later years were marked by a long melancholy and grief, with her last public appearance being her daughter’s marriage[7].

A carrier of hemophilia, her two sons died in childhood from the disease
[1] In fact, her niece’s, Maud, sister-in-law, as they had a double marriage with the brothers Christian and Karl of Denmark, due to the long span of time that her mother had children, Charlotte was only 7 years older than Maud

[2] Think of her a black-haired Luna Lovegood

[3] He had come to Albion due to the plans for his brother to marry Princess Maud of Wales, but during that time he and Charlotte (who was a close friend of her niece) ended up becoming close to each other while chaperoning to the two, by the time the date of the marriage was set the two were in love, and Christian ended up asking for her hand in marriage on the last day of the visit

[4] It lasted less than half a year, as they decided to do a double marriage with Karl and Maud

[5] From a Danish anarchist

[6] At the time of Christian’s assassination Danish succession followed a strick Salic Law, but while dying from his wounds the king left in his will the wish that the throne be passed to his daughter, Brunhilde, changing the succession of a male-preference primogeniture. Because of that, there was a 3-months-long interregnum while Prince Harald and the Queen Dowager fought each other in a succession dispute that ended with Brunhilde being legally declared a man (reason why her marriage accidentally made same-sex marriages legal in Denmark)

[7] Queen Brunhilde I of Denmark ended up marrying her first cousin and first cousin once removed, Magnus VIII of Norway, creating a union of crowns between Denmark and Norway that would later on end up creating the modern Nordic Empire, an federative entity made of five separate kingdoms ruled by the branches made by their children that is united in an economic and diplomatic sense but entirely federated in government
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Princess Euphemia, the only one among her siblings to marry outside of Christendom[1]

Called “completely unremarkable” in childhood[2], Euphemia became known in part due to her marriage, as she was the first European royal to marry an Islamic ruler in centuries when she was practically forced into a marriage[3] to the Khedive of Egypt, Tewfik Pasha[4], to whom she would be dedicated to[5].

After Tewfik’s untimely death[6], Charlotte’s sole objective in life would be guaranteeing her sons’ throne[7], firstly by conspiring in the court of her stepson, Abbas II[8] and later by taking the throne with a coup in 1905[9], establishing herself as the regent to her eldest son, Ismail[10], and ruling over Egypt until he reached majority in 1912, during that time gaining infamy for her preference for poisoning or murder to deal with any enemies[11] and crushing a rebellion in Sudan. She died 2 years later under suspicious circumstances.

A carrier of hemophilia, one of her sons had the disease[12] and her daughters carried it[13]
[1] Although she for sure wasn’t a devout Muslim

[2] Outside of an interesting in animals that her nurse called “troubling”

[3] His first wife had died early that year from a miscarriage, and her mother and the Albish government saw it as the perfect opportunity to align Egypt closer to the empire

[4] Although her son, Ismail II, was the first ruler of an independent Egypt, he declared his father as the first Emperor/Sultan of Egypt posthumously, and his mother as his Empress consort, during their time marriage she held the title of “Khediva consort”

[5] Their first meeting was in their marriage ceremony, but the two of them ended up getting close to each other, as Tewfik was courteous and amiable and the two of them became friends after the initial discomfort

[6] He died suddenly at age 39, with even his eldest son being barely of age by Egyptian law

[7] Charlotte believed the only way of her children beign safe in their position was by them having the throne, as she had an terrible relationship with her stepson and they were considered as not being “entirely-Egyptian” by most of her in-laws

[8] Abbas and Charlotte had a hate-at-first-sight relationship, and she feared he would do with her sons what the Ottoman Sultans did with younger siblings (not entirely true, but she was rather paranoid over it)

[9] That saw Abbas and most of the adults in the House of Muhammad Ali either assassinated or imprisoned

[10] Who declared Egyptian independence when the Ottomans collapsed in the 1920, while his youngest brother ended up becoming the King of Jordan, one of the nine kingdoms (and two free cities) that make the Levantine Confederacy (established by the Albish)

[11] Including her closest friend in court, who was implied in a plot to depose her

[12] Prince Muhammad, who died at age 22 in a car accident

[13] Nazli did not have any children (she is believed to have fallen in love with her cousin, Prince Arthur, and decided to stay single after his disappearance) but showed signs of being a carrier, while Hanim married Abdullah of Hejaz and had ten children, including two sons who had the disease and three daughters who carried it and married the sultans of Cyrenaica and Oman and the Emir of Qatar
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Wait, I spent days (I started the doing images before my Queen Victoria post) doing these boxes and their info and in the end I ended up breaking the site's rules?

God f*cking dammit!

I wouldn't worry about it except going forward, it's something that's brought most of the time up in context of threads directed specifically at posting images in the off-topic sections, to try to avoid spamming them with stuff and straining the forum's server. I liked the presentation you used, but you can always decrease the number of images by collaging several boxes together into one.
 
Sweet lord of three images per day.
I wouldn't worry about it except going forward, it's something that's brought most of the time up in context of threads directed specifically at posting images in the off-topic sections, to try to avoid spamming them with stuff and straining the forum's server. I liked the presentation you used, but you can always decrease the number of images by collaging several boxes together into one.
I thought the rule was only 3 non-AH images per day. I've posted more than 3 images a day before and I was fine
 
I thought the rule was only 3 non-AH images per day. I've posted more than 3 images a day before and I was fine
The list of rules in the rules post says that. But I've seen the 3 images limit just applied to AH images too

A little while ago, I asked about that. You can see the exchange here, with some mod input (it's a couple different posts, it's all on that one page though)... https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-electoral-maps-iii.460973/page-60

Basically, the "general consensus and execution" of the rules is that the 3 images per day limit is applied to any images (with exception to if you make a personal thread for your stuff). It's also kind of a soft limit but it is a thing

Wait, I spent days (I started the doing images before my Queen Victoria post) doing these boxes and their info and in the end I ended up breaking the site's rules?



God f*cking dammit!


That was 17 images, which is kind of a lot. But it's also got some clear effort, so I'd imagine (and I'm in no way a mod or authority of any sort) that it wouldn't necessarily be interpreted as, like, intentional malicious spamming or anything. But for the future, considering the stuff that was said in the discussion I linked above, it could be a good idea to maybe just make your own thread for your own images in this "alternate history maps and graphics" forum, and then maybe, like, make a post in this thread with three images as a sort of excerpt from your bigger post, and also put a link in the post you make in this thread to your own thread with more images. Again, not a mod, but I imagine that doing something like that would be fine, considering what was said about this sort of thing
 
That was 17 images, which is kind of a lot. But it's also got some clear effort, so I'd imagine (and I'm in no way a mod or authority of any sort) that it wouldn't necessarily be interpreted as, like, intentional malicious spamming or anything. But for the future, considering the stuff that was said in the discussion I linked above, it could be a good idea to maybe just make your own thread for your own images in this "alternate history maps and graphics" forum, and then maybe, like, make a post in this thread with three images as a sort of excerpt from your bigger post, and also put a link in the post you make in this thread to your own thread with more images. Again, not a mod, but I imagine that doing something like that would be fine, considering what was said about this sort of thing
I admit that I really went overboard (discovered how to do infoboxes and all of a sudden I'm obsessed with them) with the 17 images (I should have noticed the warning that I couldn't place more than 10 images on a single post as the sign it was), and thanks for the advice (I'm probably (quite certainly) going to follow it make a thread to post the excess images and just link to them in my next addition)
 

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Wait, I spent days (I started the doing images before my Queen Victoria post) doing these boxes and their info and in the end I ended up breaking the site's rules?



God f*cking dammit!
You have transgressed.

The Great Ursine in the sky does, however, recognize your contrition.

Go forth, and sin no more.
 
(I was doing this while the 17-images kerffufle happened, posted on my infobox thread but though it would be good to post it here as a quote. Sorry for the trouble)
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Henry (Henry Maximilian; 8 December – 25 September 1943), most commonly known as Henry the Warrior, was Emperor of Albion and her Dominions from 18 April 1916 until his death in 1943.

Born during the reign of his grandmother, Victoria the Great, still during her time as queen, as the eldest son of Arthur the Old and Princess Alexandra of Denmark, Henry was second in the line of succession from birth, with his title during that period, Duke of Cambridge, becoming the now traditional title of the Prince of Wales's eldest child. Not talented in politics, during his grandmother and father's reign Henry tended to veer away from it, and during his own rule preferred to leave it to his son and heir, Leonard, serving as a diplomat and figurehead in matters that didn't involve the military, on which Henry was exceptionally versed.

Educated by tutors, Henry would enter the Navy in 1877 at age 12, and outside of a five-year-long leave to attend Trinity College, Cambridge, between 1883 and 1888, Henry would serve for nearly 4 decades on it, traveling across the empire and fighting on both the Anglo-La Platan War (nearly dying when his ship, HMS Cavalier, was sunk during the Battle of Cape Horn) and the Second Franco-Hova War before becoming Admiral of the Great Lakes Fleet in 1908, commanding it until his ascension to the throne in 1916, with his last battle being the Razing of Chicago in retaliation for the Burning of Toronto, which saw his brother killed in action. After it he also was the unofficial First Sea Lord of the empire for three more years before definitively stepping down and retiring from service.

Charming and good looking, Henry married in 1893 his second cousin once removed, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, whose father had become wealthy in a stroke of luck and would herself be considered one of the richest women in history due to a mix of inheritance, ingenuity and good investments. Smitten almost from day one (and made closer by his near death from pneumonia), the two would remain devoted for each other for all their lives and would stand together as bulwark on their worst moments, from his brother's assassination to the fire that killed her brother and nephews, and after Prince Arthur's disappearance. Mary would outlive Henry by 22 years, only wearing black after his death.

Ascending in the middle of the First Great War, Henry's reign saw the conflict's end, having already killed over 50 million people, and would continue to see many tragedies during its nearly 30 years on the throne, from the Swiss Flu, which killed around 8% of the population (around 150 million people, including 26 relatives of some closeness to him) in the course of 2 years; to the collapse of both the Ottoman Empire (from the failed genocides) and France d'Outre-mer (from the death of Napoleon V); the birth of the USSA, two thirds of the Russian Civil War and the First Chinese Civil War; during which the emperor tried his best to steer the empire away from the chaos that was the world around it with the rise in political extremism and fascism. Henry's reign also saw great economic growth in the empire which resulted in the catastrophic Black Monday and the start of the Great Depression.

Suffering from smoking-related health problems in his later years, Henry died an exhausted man in Caernarfon Castle, his favorite retreat outside of Sandringham, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Leonard, who had been serving as his stand-in for some years and would officially take the reins of power amidst the lowest point in the Great Depression.

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In OTL, one of the issues the Dems ran into after the 1936 elections was the court packing scheme, which ran into public opinion issues and also divided the Democratic Party, empowering not just the GOP but also driving a wedge between the more liberal and more moderate to conservative factions of the Democratic Party. This allowed for the "conservative coalition" between Republicans and the right of the Democrats to largely dominate after the 1938 midterms

Here, instead, FDR simply has no need to push for court packing. Without that causing to/adding to factional issues, the Dems would be able to remain more united and not face the backlash. Furthermore, with the nomination of Dickinson, a conservative, rather than a moderate like Landon who criticized FDR but supported various parts of the New Deal, the Democrats are able to do even better in the 1936 elections, getting more liberal Democrats elected in the north. These factors could lead to the Democrats being able to do more to expand the New Deal, as well as to present a stronger response to the 1937-1938 recession

The Republicans would likely still make some sizable gains in 1938 just because they had lost 4 elections in a row and had little direction possible but upwards at least to some extent, but the stronger performance by the Dems in 1936 as well a more united Democratic Party without the factional strife from court-packing could allow the Dems to limit their losses compared to OTL in 1936. There's also, perhaps, the possibility that the GOP being reduced to such numbers in 1936 could itself make it harder for them as an institution to bounce back, and FDR had considered some ideas to create some sort of liberal party by joining liberal Democrats and liberal Republicans, I don't know if simply having the Dems doing better in 1936 and letting them get more done after due to factors like the Supreme Court could break the GOP enough to let either of those things happen (1936 OTL was still a pretty crushing defeat for the GOP, being the 4th loss in a row) but maybe it could at least lead to those things being more likely down the line
Interesting premise, even more beautiful maps.

Here's something: a lot of people think the '38 recession was caused in large part by the austerity measures introduced by conservative democrats and Republicans immediately prior. ITTL, this would not happen, and the '38 recession would at least be less severe, leading to less Republican gains. I don't know if it's possible for the Republicans to stay down for good, but their return in the 40s might not be as strong. We could see an entirely new party arising to counter the Democrats.
 
I was bored so I came up with this.
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Liber was a politician and lawyer who reigned as the Emperor of America from 1850 to 1867. Growing up to a minor noble family in Indiana, he would join his father on business trips to the south throughout the early 1830s, witnessing the first hand atrocities and mistreatment of slaves along the Mississippi river. This would turn him to missionary work by the late 1830s, joining a caravan of the Sanctus novissimo die in 1836 as they attempted to reach Canaan in the far west, rumored to be "where a large lake is, surrounded by nothing but desert, for out of nothing, life grew." In 1837 disagreements in gospel forced him out, though he would remain a steadfast Snd member until his death.

Following his breif inclinations to get a degree in engineering, he opted for a political career, winning a ten year term as a Senator from Illinois officially as a nonpartisan, as many political offices were at the time in the Kingdom. Inspired by the horrific actions he saw during his time out for Canaan, where many members brought their property with them as they crossed deserts, he would become an abolitionist. Often keeping his opinions to himself, Liber was known by senate colleauges as a quiet but effective politician, soley concentrated on pleasing his constituents for the longest stretches. However, he was forced to divide his time as Senator with time as the Consort to the reigning monarch Lapsum, whom he had agreed to court. The two were married in a secret ceremony in 1837. There was a significant controversy surrounding the timing of his senate career and the worry of him being the power behind the throne once news was made public. so he agreed to a quiet divorce between him and Queen Lapsum.

With his senate career winding down, Liber would opt for an adventure, contracting a crew of the SS Paitentia and managed to circumnavigate the globe twice. Among the numerous dangers he encountered were cannibals on islands near the middle indies, pirate attacks in Joseon and fighting off scurvy and mosquitoes along the African and Central American jungles. He paid tribute to Julius Ceaser upon visiting Rome, with him being assigned the unofficial ambassador to the Roman Empire, meeting in person with the eccentric and often insane Emperor Tabernus. He visited the far east and claims in his book, A few remarks on exploring the globe, that he was the 'first foreigner to enter the forbidden city' though this is disputed by modern historians.
Upon returning to America, his popularity with the common people and the Senate grew more and more, and he found himself crowned Emperor upon the surprise death of Emperor Proditor in 1850. He worked with the Senate in several agreements with Carthage, the historic rival to the Roman Empire. Many pro-roman senators revolted at the idea of working with Carthage, so Liber was forced to twist their arms heavily in order to get them to at least pass watered down version of anti-carthage legislation. He personally opened the doors to the Imperial Palace, being one of the first Emperors to allow commoners (but not slaves) into the halls of the Palace for massed celebrations and parties. This boosted his popularity with the common people, but alienated him from royalist members of the aristocracy. The tensions between him and the aristocracy finally reached a fever-pitch when in 1860, a disgruntled military officer named Ecclesiastes led a raid to free slaves and spark a major uprising in the American South. While the revolt failed, it convinced Southerners that the northern states were untrustworthy and drastic action needed to happen in order to secure their property from such hostile actions.

Once emperor, he was forced to deal with stubbornness by Governor-General Tardius, who frequently clashed with Liber on domestic and foreign policy, especially on slavery. While he proclaimed he wouldn't touch slavery, many with several southern nobles declared their succession, officially forming the American Republic, headed by Prime Minister Proditor Davis, the first leader known by a full name rather than the rule name. When Liber offered Tardius a commission to Marshall in the Royal Army, he pressured him to take it, hoping he would go away and enable him to hire another more co-operative Governor-General. The Rebellion marshaled forces on the capital of Colombia, repelled by Tardius's army at the battle of Ox Stampede. However, Tardius cautiously moved slowly, squandering military initiative and frustrating Liber in hoping for a quick end to the war. In 1862 he fired Tardius and hired the more aggressive commander Fulgur. The bloody battles that occurred against Proditor Davis's armies brought nicknames such as "bloody Fulgur", though Liber refused to fire him, owing to his success on the battlefield in spite of the heavy casualties. The elderly and aggressive Governor-General Bellator II offered his services against the Republican forces, rampaging throughout the multa river and managing to capture the key city of Athens, cutting the Republic in two by 1865. Following a year more of fierce fighting, the Republican capital of Evangelli fell, with Proditor Davis officially ordering the surrender on November 1, 1866. With the retirement of Bellator II, Liber hired a foul mouthed but ardent backer of the monarchy from the south called Sartor, who had been assigned the pro-imperialist governor upon the reconquest of Sinuoso.

While Liber would hope to enjoy a lengthy reign in reconstructing the nation, this was cut short upon a visit to Vadum's Coliseum, with noted gladiator Sagum assassinating him in 1867 when watching a performance of his favorite play. Shortly afterwards, Governor-General Sartor hastily marshaled a coup against imperialist supporters, gaining the favor of several former republican members that had been pardoned by Liber after the war. Overall, Liber is considered to be one of the most famous Emperors of America, nearly rivaling the reign of Emperors Bellator and the controversial Emperor Alciati.
 
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