In my The Maple Leaf Forever TL Canada gets its own Monarch rather than becoming a Dominion.
The King of Canada is Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, third son of Queen Victoria. The Time Line starts in 1867 and the new King is 18 and unwed.
I have been toying with who I can marry him off to when the time comes to insure an hear. My ideas until today have ranged from his OTL wife Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, to Danish, Austrian Houses or simply another British royal house.
Then it hit me at work today.
There are still French Royal Houses... they may not be in power, but they are there. And it would seem logical, to me anyhow, to merge a British Royal House, and a French Royal house as a symbol of Canadian Unity under our new crown.
My questions are these...
1) Is this logical? Can you see it happening?
2) What House is most likely to be chosen by the Canadians?
3) Dose anyone know the name of a female member of said house from the 1860s around the same age as Arthur?
The King of Canada is Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, third son of Queen Victoria. The Time Line starts in 1867 and the new King is 18 and unwed.
I have been toying with who I can marry him off to when the time comes to insure an hear. My ideas until today have ranged from his OTL wife Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, to Danish, Austrian Houses or simply another British royal house.
Then it hit me at work today.
There are still French Royal Houses... they may not be in power, but they are there. And it would seem logical, to me anyhow, to merge a British Royal House, and a French Royal house as a symbol of Canadian Unity under our new crown.
My questions are these...
1) Is this logical? Can you see it happening?
2) What House is most likely to be chosen by the Canadians?
3) Dose anyone know the name of a female member of said house from the 1860s around the same age as Arthur?