DBWI: Republican Europe?

Republics would mean the destruction of God's good order and the denial of the rights of the royalty and the aristocracy to rule over the masses. Totally ASB.

Yes, yes indeed, the masses have rights, thank God, we're not living in the Dark Ages anymore, but come on? Ruling themselves? Ruling nations? That's a lot of poppycock.
 
The small part of Sweden is TOTALY ASB. All of Gustav VIs male kids suddenly gets the urge to go off and marry commoners except ONE and he is KIA in a planecrash were the engineers on the ground forgetts to loosen the rudder after a storm and he had 4 daughters and in his last attempt he managed to get a son 6 months before dying.

That son somehow manages to become king despite big republican winds in the country and marry a commoner himself, that he met at an olympic game. Oh, and the best part. They change the constitution so the eldest child becomes heir even if its a girl, IN RETROSPECT despite a son beeing born. Whats next? Will the heir marries some redneck from Scania with a funny accent that sound like the actor Edward Persson?

And Norway? The crownprince marries a commoner and they change their constitution also, but the youngest son is still the heir.

Atleast Denmark is still marrying dukes despite having a queen.

And surpriseattacks like Hitler had every year dont work without ASB. The Pacific war from the start to June of 1942 was pretty much ASB also.
 
. The Pacific war from the start to June of 1942 was pretty much ASB also.

Indeed, the very idea of the Grand Japanese Empire being defeated by America is laughable. Not to mention being an enemy of the British Empire, when everyone knows we've been allies with the Japanese since 1902.
 
I know your all going to shoot me down here but not only do I like the book I find it plausible. I’m not in favour of Republicism (god no) but I It could work in its pure form -ok so far I’m yet to be proved Right-. what I found ASB was what he did to the labour Party I mean having it as the UK's second largest party is ASB-ish but Tony Blair labour PM!
even most Liberal MP's think he's too rightwing for their party and then David Milliband as the next in line for the Job as labour leader his brother maybe but him I! agree you can tell he's American
 
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I agree, totally ASB. I mean, Russia is not a Empire any more???:eek:

It could have happened after the First Great War, it is unspeakable just how shambolic the Russian Empire was at the time, but I do agree it is unlikely. On the other hand, Stalin and the other rulers of the USSR did act basically like the tsars anyway... (so much for imagination in Turtledove's work:rolleyes:)
 
I detest what he did with My beloved Austria-Hungry No way would the Austrians or the Hungarians allow themselves to be split and then lose every other territory. If we lost a world war we would accept the loss of territory but never the splitting of our great kingdoms. I mean come on after that rough patch in the 1800's we united as a people to the point Croatia is a region and nothing more than that. Even the Protestants arn't insane of enough to give control to the masses at least in Prussia and Scandinavia. Briton does it only because they cannot understand what class is and the FEG only is that way since the only sensible part of the Germanies, Bavaria, joined us.
 
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