Bourbon Romania

I was bored so I wrote something about this. If there's any interest in it, I could make a proper timeline out of it, but I doubt that any non-romanian would be interested in this scenario. Anyway, here it is :

The massive, beautifully carved, wooden door of the Prince’s bedchamber, opens violently, being slammed against the wall. It is four o’clock on the morning of February 22, 1866. The room soon fills with Palace Guards, followed by the conspirators, dressed in elegant sack coats after the latest fashions in Paris. The Prince sleeps deeply, and he’s not waked up by all the fuss around him, but his mistress, very summary dressed, wakes up, and scared by the unusual company screams and tries to cover up her nakedness with the blanket which kept her and the Prince warm over the night. The Prince’s naked back reveals itself after his mistress pulled the blanket, and the conspirators begin mumbling and giggling. The scandal around the Prince’s mistress was fresh and the hypocrite politicians exploited this situation as much as they could. Finally the Prince wakes up and quickly understands the situation. Ashamed by the indignity of being found almost completely naked in bed with his mistress, the Prince tries to reach for his mistress’ dress and for his own clothes, but one conspirator approaches him with a pen and a paper in his hands. The conspirator is none other than Ion Bratianu, the leader of the “Monstrous Coalition” formed with the single goal of deposing Cuza. After Bratianu other conspirators follow hesitantly. Among them are Lascar Catargiu, General Nicolae Golescu and Colonel Nicolae Haralambie. The Prince stares enraged at Bratianu, and starts shouting at him that this masquerade was not needed, as the Prince himself, during a speech, announced that he is willing to give up the throne in favor of a foreign prince. Bratianu pretends he didn’t hear Cuza’s outburst and informs him politely that he is to be deposed and asks him to sign his abdication, offering his pen to the Prince. After a minute of hesitation Cuza takes the pen, signs the paper and then asks the Palace Guards and the conspirators to leave his bedroom. Pleased of the outcome, Bratianu complies, wishing the Prince and his mistress to “have a good day” in French, with an arrogant tone.

The next day Alexander John Cuza is escorted to the border. He leaves Romania and heads for Paris. He will spend the rest of his life in Paris, Vienna and Wiesbaden. Back in Bukarest, the conspirators assume the power, forming a Princely Lieutenancy on the 11 of February 1866. The members were Lascar Catargiu, General Nicolae Golescu and Colonel Nicolae Haralambie. During the Lieutenancy a provisional government was constituted, led by Ion Ghica. The main concern of the Lieutenancy, will be the installation of a foreign Prince on the Romanian throne. In the very first day of the new government (11 February) the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate assemble under the Presidency of the Metropolitan Bishop Nifon, and they elect “His Royal Highness Phillip Eugene Ferdinand Maria Clement Baldwin Leopold George” Count of Flanders and Duke of Saxony as Prince of the United Romanian Principalities. The Belgian Prince refuses and the Romanian Government, rushed by the imminent Ottoman Invasion offers the throne to Karl Ludwig of Hohenzollern. The Turks had stationed their armies on the Danube, as the Sultan only recognized the union of Wallachia and Moldavia under Alexander John Cuza. Bringing a foreign Prince was vital for the Romanian state. The undecided Prince Karl refuses at first, then he accepts, but finally he refuses again, as the Romanians could not ensure him safe passage through Austro-Hungary (this is the POD, it happened in OTL but Karl accepted to travel incognito through Austro-Hungary). As if they didn’t had enough problems, the Romanian Government receives another blow. On April 15 1866 Moldavian separatists organize a revolt on the streets of Iasi, the former Moldavian capital. After several hours, the 500 demonstrators are defeated by the soldiers sent to crush the rebellion. Casualties are taken by both sides.

In despair, the Romanian Government appeals to the House of Bourbon for a new King. Robert I, the Duke of Parma is the first Bourbon to be offered the throne, but he refuses hoping that he would regain his Duchy, recently annexed by the Kingdom of Italy. Time was passing and the Romanian Union was in great danger. In a final attempt to bring a foreign Prince on the throne, Ion Bratianu and C.A. Rosetti, secretely travel to London. On 20 May 1866, the two arrived at the Orleans House in Twickenham, London. A strong but sad looking man greeted them in the beautiful garden of the residence. After exchanging pleasantries the three men entered the house. The rooms felt empty and sad. Soon the Duke of Aumale explained the reason for this. His wife, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies was in Sydney with his first son, Louis Philippe who was suffering of typhoid fever. The two Romanians explained their proposition, but Prince Henri refused, saying he was too old and tired to embark in such a journey. The Romanians didn’t insisted and returned disconcerted to their rooms.

From this point, I have two options of how to continue. In the first one Prince Henri accepts and becomes the Prince of Romania. In the second one Henri refuses, but he recomends his nephew, Prince Robert, for the job.
 
My best guess would be prince Robert, duke of Chartres, but that would at least require consent of Russia and Austria.
 
In 1866 the only consent he needs is Ottoman as Romania was still a vassal state.

Well the Ottoman Empire too, but Russia and Austria were the Great Powers with an special interest in the Balkan region. So they will want a say in this too, well at least they will be able to veto certain candidates.
 
Well the Ottoman Empire too, but Russia and Austria were the Great Powers with an special interest in the Balkan region. So they will want a say in this too, well at least they will be able to veto certain candidates.

I really doubt it. The best proof is the OTL Carol I. He was made Prince of Romania when Prussia was at war with Austria. About Russia, I think they would salute any foreign Prince of Romania, because in the case of a new Russo-Turkish war, it's better to have a French Prince than an Ottoman puppet.
 
There is a way to lead into this - see this link, about 2/3 of the way down the page. The "Duchess of Parma" is actually Louise Marie Therese, regent of Parma for her son, so I'm not sure how exactly that would work out. The proposal probably didn't have any chance to receive the approval of the Congress of Paris given the likely Austrian response, but it could be brought up again, most likely in the context of a major shook-up of the Italian political situation. If we go by relative size, the exchange would be Parma-Wallachia and Modena-Moldavia. This would give us a Bourbon Wallachia, at which point it becomes an issue of expanding the dynasty to Moldavia.
 
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