Could Kaiser Wilhelm II have inherited the British crown?

I don't know anything about British succession rules but I do know that both Wilhelm II and George V were descended from Queen Victoria. Was Wilhelm II anywhere in the line of succession? If so how many others would have to die before it got to him?
It would certainly make things interesting if this happened after the death of Archduke Ferdinand but before British entry in WWI.
Or how about just after WWI ends?
For that matter could George V have become Kaiser?
 
No, Wilhelm II could not have inherited the British crown unless all his uncles and male cousins from them had died first. Then there is Parliament that will get involved.

George V could never have become Kaiser since he is not related to the Hohenzollerns in any meaningful way.
 
I think David S. Poepoe is right (with a slight quibble). If memory serves, Wilhelm was the son of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter. He'd be outranked by: (1) all Victoria's sons, each of them followed by his own sons then his daughters; and (2) his own mother.
(so the "male cousins" should have just been "cousins").

In other words, the line of succession was: son no. 1, son no. 1's sons, son no. 1's daughters, son no. 2, son no. 2's sons (and so on until all Victoria's sons and their descendants are eliminated), THEN daughter no. 1 (Wilhelm's mother), then Wilhelm himself.

To compare him to the current royal family, Princess Anne's son is at the same point in the line of succession as Wilhelm was.

So once Victoria's sons began having children - mid-1860s - it was very unlikely.
 
I think it requires Victoria to have had fewer sons and for them then to manage to die childless. I am pretty sure that Victoria's first born daughter would NOT have married the heir to the King of Prussia if she were an at all likely candidate to succeed her mother.
 
I think it requires Victoria to have had fewer sons and for them then to manage to die childless. I am pretty sure that Victoria's first born daughter would NOT have married the heir to the King of Prussia if she were an at all likely candidate to succeed her mother.

There would have to look at Victoria and Albert and their idea to sort of unite Europe by the intermarriage of the royal families. Princess Victoria was pretty much a tool of her parents grand plans.
 
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