Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn was Queen Victoria's father, and therefore ancestor of a great many monarchs and families in Europe today. My question is this, if instead of dying in 1820, he had either not been where he was when he caught the illness that killed him or he had survived it, what would change? One thinks that with perhaps six years to go until his wife Princess Victoria can no longer have children, properly, that they'd try for another child. If they succeeded and had two more children, a son and another girl, what might change?
What role would Edward have during the reigns of his brothers George IV and William IV, if he lives past William, how might he be as King, and what lessons could he teach his children? Finally, who might his children marry?