Canadian Royal Marriage Questions, please help.

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?
 
Best as I can tell, none of the three houses had a female offspring of marriageable age until the 1870-80's (Amelie of Orleans). She was 2 in 1867.
 
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?

Another question to consider is:
Who would be acceptable to Queen Victoria?

Also, what do you mean by chosen by the Canadians? Is the bride going to be selected by parliament or national referendum? Must the king's choice be approved by parliament or by a vote of the people?
 
Another question to consider is:
Who would be acceptable to Queen Victoria?

Also, what do you mean by chosen by the Canadians? Is the bride going to be selected by parliament or national referendum? Must the king's choice be approved by parliament or by a vote of the people?

to be honest I was thinking Parliament would vote on it. Not like will really say no.... More of a democratic formality showing the will of the people is above the king.



Its a long while before I get there, so plenty of time to think about it.

And does what Victoria think really matter? I mean, Im sure it matters, is it a deal maker opinion?
 
Buuuuuuuuuuuuger.....

is 20 and 35 to big of an age gap for a royal marriage in the 1880s?

What do you mean by that? That TTL king Arthur of Canada is 20 or 35 years older than his bride to be?
When King William (Willem) III of the Netherlands (not to be confused with his distant relative King-Stadtholder William III) was in need of a heir he in 1879 married a princess 41 years his junior.

In short any adult princess of the childbearing age would be acceptable for a new king in need of a heir.
 
What do you mean by that? That TTL king Arthur of Canada is 20 or 35 years older than his bride to be?
When King William (Willem) III of the Netherlands (not to be confused with his distant relative King-Stadtholder William III) was in need of a heir he in 1879 married a princess 41 years his junior.

In short any adult princess of the childbearing age would be acceptable for a new king in need of a heir.

awesome. Got a plan then, thank you.
 
I came across Princess Marguerite Adélaïde of Orléans by crawling around Wikipedia infoboxes. Her father was the second son of King Louis Philippe I. She's a couple years older than King Arthur of Canada. I bet you can find a couple more.

I don't know if Canadians (or British) would like Orleanists or not. I'm having trouble finding any women the right age in the Bourbon or Napoleon houses.
 
So, would this version of Canada have dropped the OTL British ban on the monarch & heirs marrying (or becoming) Roman Catholics, or would a French wife be expected to convert?
 
So, would this version of Canada have dropped the OTL British ban on the monarch & heirs marrying (or becoming) Roman Catholics, or would a French wife be expected to convert?

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The problem for a Canadian King is that the ban on Roman Catholicism and the monarchy would go against the alliance you're trying to establish in the first place.
 
So, would this version of Canada have dropped the OTL British ban on the monarch & heirs marrying (or becoming) Roman Catholics, or would a French wife be expected to convert?

Well, he's suggesting a seperate monarchy, so King William and Parliament here can probably change the laws of succession as they see fit.
 
Of course the new Canadian government could establish its own rules relating to the succession and the requirement for a royal marriage.
However it might end up with the same problem that applied in Britain (which became very apparent when Edward VIII wanted to marry in 1936)
The British rules only related to an heir to the throne not to the monarch once they had assumed the throne.
Also does Arthur give up or is removed from his British rights on his assumption of the new Canadian throne (because that in itself has proved controversial throughout history) because any Catholic marriage (without the bride's conversion) is going to exclude him automatically.
I would think it likely that he himself will favour a wife of a protestant flavour as will his mother who is unlikely to let his new status prevent her interferring in his personal life.

Another point Arthur in otl was pretty determined to remain a British Prince - he and his OTL son went to extreme lengths to avoid getting lumbered with Saxe Coburg Gotha when his elder brother died for example but sure you could butterfly that.
 
Of course the new Canadian government could establish its own rules relating to the succession and the requirement for a royal marriage.
However it might end up with the same problem that applied in Britain (which became very apparent when Edward VIII wanted to marry in 1936)
The British rules only related to an heir to the throne not to the monarch once they had assumed the throne.
Also does Arthur give up or is removed from his British rights on his assumption of the new Canadian throne (because that in itself has proved controversial throughout history) because any Catholic marriage (without the bride's conversion) is going to exclude him automatically.
I would think it likely that he himself will favour a wife of a protestant flavour as will his mother who is unlikely to let his new status prevent her interferring in his personal life.

Another point Arthur in otl was pretty determined to remain a British Prince - he and his OTL son went to extreme lengths to avoid getting lumbered with Saxe Coburg Gotha when his elder brother died for example but sure you could butterfly that.

This is all things I need to consider. I wasn't aware he was so determined to remain a British Prince, from the things I had read he seemed... at least OK with becoming the Canadian King. But I guess different historians approach things from ever so slightly different angles. Well, I will go with what you said and just claim it as a butterfly.
 
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?

No. French Canadians don't give a damn about France. They were majorly unenthused about fighting in WW I on the side of France.
 
No. French Canadians don't give a damn about France. They were majorly unenthused about fighting in WW I on the side of France.

True, true.

However the powers that be might think it a lovely solution... and be quite taken aback when it's greeted with 'meh, whatever dude' or period equivalent.

Ot3h, british aristocracy in general and the royals in particular, tend to have a decent command of (parisian) French. If Connaught did, and i dont know pro or con, that might help there.
 
True, true.

However the powers that be might think it a lovely solution... and be quite taken aback when it's greeted with 'meh, whatever dude' or period equivalent.

Ot3h, british aristocracy in general and the royals in particular, tend to have a decent command of (parisian) French. If Connaught did, and i dont know pro or con, that might help there.

this is mostly what I was thinking. Ottawa would think it brilliant. But the population may not care as much, if at all really.
 
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