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?