Edward VII and his family are murdered during the 1870s

A question for you all, during the 1870s from what I've read, there was strong republican sentiment in Britain, mainly due to Victoria isolating herself after Albert's death. Say during a trip around London, the Prince of Wales, his wife and their children were murdered by a group of avowed republicans, what would the consequences be? Would support for republicanism grow or decline? How would the country itself react to this? What are the shock waves for the Royal Family? Does Victoria pull herself together?
 
Eventually King Arthur II....immediately: a bunch of lynched avowed republicans would be my guess....but I come from rednecks and hillbillies, it could be possible the English would try the avowed republicans before hanging them!
 
While it would likely shake up and galvanize Victoria to take up vengence against the murderers and might get support for Royalists even more than the Prince of Wales's recovery from typhoid. It would have altered the succession as the next heir would have been his immediate younger brother Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh but, if all others were fated to die in OTL, then by the time of Victoria's death both he and his only son would have died so Victoria would have succeeded by her granddaughter Marie, the Crown Princess(and future Queen) of Romania. Now how Great Britain and Romania would have fared under a personal union between their two monarchs is anyone's guess!
 
King Arthur II....and a bunch of lynched avowed republicans would be my guess....but I come from rednecks and hillbillies, it could be possible the English would try the avowed republicans before hanging them!

Aha this is true, would he be Arthur II though? As I had thought that the numbering system came from after the conquest?
 
While it would likely shake up and galvanize Victoria to take up vengence against the murderers and might get support for Royalists even more than the Prince of Wales's recovery from typhoid. It would have altered the succession as the next heir would have been his immediate younger brother Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh but, if all others were fated to die in OTL, then by the time of Victoria's death both he and his only son would have died so Victoria would have succeeded by her granddaughter Marie, the Crown Princess(and future Queen) of Romania. Now how Great Britain and Romania would have fared under a personal union between their two monarchs is anyone's guess!

Aha this is also true, though what happens if Alfred dies before he can marry?
 
While it would likely shake up and galvanize Victoria to take up vengence against the murderers and might get support for Royalists even more than the Prince of Wales's recovery from typhoid. It would have altered the succession as the next heir would have been his immediate younger brother Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh but, if all others were fated to die in OTL, then by the time of Victoria's death both he and his only son would have died so Victoria would have succeeded by her granddaughter Marie, the Crown Princess(and future Queen) of Romania. Now how Great Britain and Romania would have fared under a personal union between their two monarchs is anyone's guess!

Alfred might have married differently; certainly, if there were a Marie, she would not have married a foreign monarch.
 
Oops, I skipped a brother. My bad. I still say that republicanism baby is dead in its crib, murdered by its parents' bad parenting choices.
 
But it will bring Queen Vicky out of her 'shell'. Hell of a way to do it, though.
Or will she retreat further in? Her eldest son, her successor, has just been killed ruthlessly by people wishing to end her reign. Perhaps she abdicates the throne to one of her other sons. Alfred most likely. Perhaps it may even go to George of Cambridge?
 
Succession is: Alfred gets it. She's not Henry VIII (one of the reasons the succession was codified), so she can't abdicate to Disraeli or whomever she thinks would be best, she's stuck with the next in line. I don't think she'd abdicate - she liked being queen, it let her get away with doing nothing but paperwork for years. I think the PM would put it to her as: Come out fighting unless you want to be the last monarch of England......
 
Or will she retreat further in? Her eldest son, her successor, has just been killed ruthlessly by people wishing to end her reign. Perhaps she abdicates the throne to one of her other sons. Alfred most likely. Perhaps it may even go to George of Cambridge?

I can't see her abdicating, and there's no way it's going to George of Cambridge aha.


Succession is: Alfred gets it. She's not Henry VIII (one of the reasons the succession was codified), so she can't abdicate to Disraeli or whomever she thinks would be best, she's stuck with the next in line. I don't think she'd abdicate - she liked being queen, it let her get away with doing nothing but paperwork for years. I think the PM would put it to her as: Come out fighting unless you want to be the last monarch of England......

This I agree with, I reckon republicanism declines sharply and Government's problems are exposed on a wide scale.
 
I can't see her abdicating, and there's no way it's going to George of Cambridge aha.




This I agree with, I reckon republicanism declines sharply and Government's problems are exposed on a wide scale.
I think a George V TL would be interesting. Hmmmm i may do this at some point......
 
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