Best butterfly would to have the King and the Kiser spend a lot of time together when they're younger.If they develop a good working relationship, England might side with Germany.It would help if Napoleon II did something stupid.
So, by that timeline should the French invade Belgium and fail and the British start turning on them, Russia and France's best bet at that point is to recognise they cannot win, make peace with Germany, then turn and with Germany and Italy, carve up the perfidious British, correct?
The very best butterfly, which is a virtual space bat, involves Queen Victoria being predeceased by both her remaining sons. Since one had a permanently reserved suite in a Parisian Brothel, why he didn't die young of a social disease is an almost act of ROB. Her other son was a veteran soldier, a stray round or tropical disease will suffice.Best butterfly would to have the King and the Kiser spend a lot of time together when they're younger.If they develop a good working relationship, England might side with Germany.It would help if Napoleon II did something stupid.
It more then that it would require all of her sons (all 4 not just the two who outlived her) plus all of there children as any of those children is ahead of the Empress( interestingly if Edward Prince of Whales died with no children Marie of Romania would have been queen on Victoria's death) I would also wonder if Parilment would accpect a situation which would lead to the German Emperor being king I would expect that by 1900 in would not be seen as a good move and an act would somehow bypass WilhelmThe very best butterfly, which is a virtual space bat, involves Queen Victoria being predeceased by both her remaining sons. Since one had a permanently reserved suite in a Parisian Brothel, why he didn't die young of a social disease is an almost act of ROB. Her other son was a veteran soldier, a stray round or tropical disease will suffice.
At which point the line of succession runs through her eldest daughter, and to her grandson Wilhelm II. With a personal union of the crowns it is hard to see Britain and Germany not on the same side in WW1.
Please excuse an American for using the wrong term.
Don't worry about it. As said above the British still call the Netherlands 'Holland' and the French also colloquially refer to anyone from the British Isles (including the Irish) as 'Anglais'. Mind you, woe betide you if you send a letter to the UK from France and don't address it to 'Royaume Uni'!I am sorry, I should of used the UK or British Empire. Please excuse an American for using the wrong term.
It more then that it would require all of her sons (all 4 not just the two who outlived her) plus all of there children as any of those children is ahead of the Empress( interestingly if Edward Prince of Whales died with no children Marie of Romania would have been queen on Victoria's death) I would also wonder if Parilment would accpect a situation which would lead to the German Emperor being king I would expect that by 1900 in would not be seen as a good move and an act would somehow bypass Wilhelm
It would have made sense in the original timeline to stop the war in the first place, it was massively expensive and destructive. France lost 1/10th of it's adult male population, French society never recovered for over half a century. The problem was that the leaders and nationalists irredentist forces demanding the war continue. In this timeline France would have fought to the end.
The entire British Empire goes with it, including the United Kingdoms of England, Scotland,Wales and Ireland, the colonies Canada, Australia, etc.
I am sorry, I should of used the UK or British Empire. Please excuse an American for using the wrong term.
But you didn't say "stop the war", as in Britain coming in with good faith and mediating a ceasefire on behalf of embattled France and Russia. You indicated British public opinion turns against France because the British prefer the French slaughtered in their millions along the common border just so that the sparsely populated Belgian Ardennes can remain quiet. Maybe the BEF goes to Germany to fight France, or maybe the French go into revolution as Paris falls in 1918. This is what you outlined. You're sure France and Russia are going to be all thankful about that? Because if they're not, what other game do they have but the Kaiser and his High Seas Fleet? And, on a related note, if the Russian and French fleet joined with the German fleet, could they blow the Grand Fleet out of the water? And if this came to pass, the British would get exactly what's coming to them, and would have no one to blame but themselves, correct?
It isn't that the British people can't excuse the French for attempting to pass through the Ardennes, it's that they'll have to occupy the entirety of Belgium to make the logistics of an invasion into Germany possible. Britain's treaty obligation and grand standing by newspapers will call for war against the French and it would be difficult for British leaders to justify the actions of the French and not greet them with outright hostility. Germany is going to desire a Brest Litovsk over Russia by any means, that was one of their motivation for getting involved in the war in the first place. They want to cast down Russia before they become too powerful. Theoretically they would be willing to come to an understanding with the French but how? The French people are going to be clamoring for war, the families of the hundreds of thousands of deceased will want vengeance. Kaiser Wilhelm preferred the English and there would be no reason for him to turn his back on their assistance especially when he would be slaughtering the Russians and easily achieving his war aims with them. Alsace Lorraine was too divisive.
There was never a United Kingdoms of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
In 1284 the Statute of Rhuddlan annexed the Principality of Wales into the Kingdom of England.
In 1603 the Scottish King took over the Kingdom of England's throne and demanded to be referred to as the King of Great Britain.
In 1707 the Acts of Union joined the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain.
In 1800 the Act of Union joined the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
In 1922 the Anglo-Irish Treaty resulted in the Republic of Ireland breaking off from the now named United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
You do recognise the potential for a total empire ending catastrophe for Britain in this course of action though, correct? You're saying the Germans won't do this and the French won't do that, but let's say they do? Can the Grand Fleet defeat the combined navies of the continental powers, yes or no?