Edward, Duke of Kent lives longer

So, last night I was watching that Queen Victoria's Men thingy on Channel Four, and it mentioned how Victoria was as... Hanoverian as she was partly because she'd been alone for most of her childhood, with her mother and John Conroy isolating her from the world.

This got me thinking. If her father had been alive for longer, then her mother wouldn't have had such a controlling influence, Conroy wouldn't even be in the picture, and we could have had a calmer, more rational Victoria, not prone to such fits of pique, and much more of a constitutional monarch. I think it's safe to say that *Victoria would not prompt something like an alternate Bedchamber Crisis, so the politics of the *Victorian era could be quite different.

Let's say, then, that Edward survives a further twenty years, until his death at the age of seventy-three in 1840. Victoria is twenty-one now.
Any thoughts?
 

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Let's say, then, that Edward survives a further twenty years, until his death at the age of seventy-three in 1840. Victoria is twenty-one now.
Any thoughts?
1840? Doesn't that mean he'd be King himself for a few years before his death? That creates a whole swathe of butterflies before we even get to Victoria having a go with the big sparkly hat.
 
1840? Doesn't that mean he'd be King himself for a few years before his death? That creates a whole swathe of butterflies before we even get to Victoria having a go with the big sparkly hat.

1835, then - probably more realistic this way, anyway.
 
WI Edward lived long enough to father a second child, a son, and become king himself? Imagine that, Edward VII and Edward VIII in the 19th Century.
 
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