Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Princess Maud get married

Imagining the following scenario =
In 1894 Franz Ferdinand visited the English court. Some time ago I read that Maud was thought to be a suitable candidate for him.
If Franz Ferdinand married Maud in 1894, and shortly thereafter inherited the throne (1896?), How would that be good for relations between Austria-Hungary and England?
I remember reading that he did not support the war, we would have peace in Europe?
 
You may have a problem with the faiths involved. Austria-Hungary was rather heavily Catholic, and the Habsburgs themselves were Catholic. On the other hand, Maud surely would have been High Church of England. So...someone--and I doubt Franz Ferdinand--would have to convert, and that may be a roadblock.
 
You may have a problem with the faiths involved. Austria-Hungary was rather heavily Catholic, and the Habsburgs themselves were Catholic. On the other hand, Maud surely would have been High Church of England. So...someone--and I doubt Franz Ferdinand--would have to convert, and that may be a roadblock.
This would certainly be an obstacle, but in any way as I said in another topic Maud would marry a Catholic house and her mother would not have prevented it. And there were rumors in 1898 that the newspapers of that time would have reported a marriage between the sister of Maud (Victoria) and Ferdinand, to know what people thought of a union between the Heir to the throne and an English Princess
 
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