British Succession.

Towards the end of hugely successful reign of Queen Victoria the UK government decides to change the rules of succession to allow absolute primogenture (rather than male primogenture).

Royal Princess Victoria becomes the Queen of England and Empress of Germany. World War I looks very different, undefeated Germany doesn't give rise to Hitler the decline of the British Empire becomes perhaps more orderly or even reversed.

A Europe united under a Anglo-German hegemony nearing it's 100 year anniversary; how else is the world different?

British Overseas territory controls most of the Middle East Oil, most Diamond and Gold production of Africa.
British Empire emboldend to snuff out the communist uprising in China.
What happens to India? Violent revolution or slow devolution?
 
I see no reason that this would happen, and if it did... I don't see the Brits being all hot for having a wife and mother of German Emperors being the next in line to the throne, and her heir (than the heir) being a foreign Prince, after all by the time Victoria was Queen the UK was too nationalistic to put up with a foreigner as King/Queen they strongly disliked having a foreign Prince as Consort,

any ways I don't see a way to have a married Princess Victoria as her mother's heir, Parliament wouldn't change things, Victoria even with her distaste for Prince Edward never tried to remove him in favor of her more liked children, and you'd have to kill off all her brothers to have a married Princess Royal become heir, and likely some settlement would be reached where one of her son's gets Germany one the UK
 
I agree with the above. Parliament won't pass a law making the Emperor of Germany heir apparent apparent.
 
really the best time for absolute primogeniture, before right now of course, would be 1688, as a booster to Queen Mary II's claim over her father and little brother.
 
Basically, this isn't going to happen when the children have already been married off and had children of their own based on the previous line of succession.

At best, they'll make it applicative to Edward VII's children onwards, but even then I think George V's children onwards is more likely.
 
At best, they'll make it applicative to Edward VII's children onwards, but even then I think George V's children onwards is more likely.

I doubt that 1900s Britain would place woman on equal footing with men in this highly public way for no reason but the goodness of their hearts
 
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