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hey, all. before i go to sleep, an idea has been bouncing around in my head recently. this stemmed from an idea about Arthur Wellesley becoming Governor of India following a failure at Waterloo, but that itself is beside the point

suppose that a dynastic house arises in British India, a prince (or patriarch) of which eventually marries into royalty and becomes the King of England. first and foremost, what does everyone think is the plausibility of this in and of itself?

secondly, what if this jure uxoris king had a good degree of Indian heritage both in his ethnicity and in his lifestyle (perhaps preferring to call England a raj rather than a kingdom for instance) and physically reflected that? (the men of his family would have started as Englishmen but intermarried with local nobility as political marriages and continued on with that to this one's generation) whatever needs to be done in order for his heritage to be overlooked in a (potentially) less-tolerant world is done. ideally, this would take place during the Victorian Era and the marriage would more be one of convenience, or just for the added status since said prince/patriarch would probably be fabulously wealthy
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