Charles XII of Sweden marries Louisa Maria Stuart - Personal union between Sweden and Britain?

The Professor

The Professor

The royal logistics may have to be looked at too:
How much time does the monarch spend in each part of the personal union? Great Britain, Sweden, AND Ireland too, since it's also in personal union rather than political even if it essentially functions as a protectorate.
Is royal deputation more pronounced and formalised legislatively?
Would we see the start of a council composed of the various cabinets for "personal union wide" issues and cooperation?
 
Sarthak

Sarthak

The Professor said:
The royal logistics may have to be looked at too:
How much time does the monarch spend in each part of the personal union? Great Britain, Sweden, AND Ireland too, since it's also in personal union rather than political even if it essentially functions as a protectorate.
Is royal deputation more pronounced and formalised legislatively?
Would we see the start of a council composed of the various cabinets for "personal union wide" issues and cooperation?
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True enough. The logistics of such a union would be interesting to see
 

Carter I'm Yog

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सार्थक (Sārthākā) said:
The Parliament of the Estates became one of the most corrupt bodies in Europe with the power of the monarch being stripped away. Oligarchs and Nobles basically ran a corrupt racket through the Riksdag
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Anything else? This sounds like something very difficult to evaluate and estimate. If it had more visible impacts on the army and social mores I'd be more able to understand.
 
Sarthak

Sarthak

Carter I'm Yog said:
Anything else? This sounds like something very difficult to evaluate and estimate. If it had more visible impacts on the army and social mores I'd be more able to understand.
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Their economic policies were destructive, with a 60,000,000 Kroner debt at the end of it, around 4-6 times the revenue, and the resulting mass printing of paper money basically created a proto-industrial hyperinflation crisis in 1765 that was not solved until 1774 when Gustav III conducted his first economic reforms. The Parliament, divided between the Hats and the Caps (proto-political parties essentially) forced Sweden into the Russo-Swedish War of 1741-43 which saw Finland ravaged and Karelia and Old Finland annexed into Russia. They also dragged Sweden into the Pomeranian War which basically resulted in Sweden being humiliated on the international stage. While the army did win several key battles in Pomerania, the orders arriving from Parliament was so conflicting that Sweden was unable to push their advantage and had to humiliatingly agree to a status quo ante bellum, even though the army did hold an advantage over Frederick the Great's own forces in the region.
 
Count

Count

सार्थक (Sārthākā) said:
Their economic policies were destructive, with a 60,000,000 Kroner debt at the end of it, around 4-6 times the revenue, and the resulting mass printing of paper money basically created a proto-industrial hyperinflation crisis in 1765 that was not solved until 1774 when Gustav III conducted his first economic reforms. The Parliament, divided between the Hats and the Caps (proto-political parties essentially) forced Sweden into the Russo-Swedish War of 1741-43 which saw Finland ravaged and Karelia and Old Finland annexed into Russia. They also dragged Sweden into the Pomeranian War which basically resulted in Sweden being humiliated on the international stage. While the army did win several key battles in Pomerania, the orders arriving from Parliament was so conflicting that Sweden was unable to push their advantage and had to humiliatingly agree to a status quo ante bellum, even though the army did hold an advantage over Frederick the Great's own forces in the region.
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The Absolute monarchy also launched a farcical war against Russia once restored by Gustav and later on resulted in the disasters of the Napoleonic Wars. Furthermore most of the disasters you cite took place under the administration of the Hat Party, dominated by the noblemen, and the revelation of such ruinous debt by the incoming Cap ministry after being swept into office by the disgraceful war humiliated their rivals.
Certainly the Age of Liberty was destructive, but it should be noted that a key part of that was the loss of territory, resources and income which resulted in the breakdown of the Caroloean administrative state, along with the grants of privileges to the nobility by Ulrika to shore up her position, not necessarily the collapse of the absolute monarchic regime, which as Charles XII’s impetuousity and his successors’ downright incompetence would show, only functioned when the monarch was competent and the administration new enough that the monarch’s place vis a vis his ministers was sufficient to compel action. Otherwise they tended to fossilise as the new institutions opposed further developments.
 
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