Edward VII marries Princess Marie of Hanover

I honestly can't see this making the blindest difference.

If there's one thing that wouldn't happen, it's that "Britain absorbs it somehow". For a start, Hanoverian inheritance law said that women couldn't inherit so there was no way to position Marie as a potential ruler of Hanover. Secondly, neither Hanover nor the UK had the slightest interest in a Personal Union - during the 122 year union of the two, pretty much both governments had worked hard to have as little contact with the other as they possibly could - so even if the two did somehow get into Personal Union (hint: this is still impossible) there would be entirely zero interest in making it work. In fact, by this point Parliament might even go so far as to ensure that the thrones got divided in future.
 
The British Royal family was pretty pro-German at the time and in favor of a United Germany. Likely, we see what happened in 1864 happening in 1866. The Prince of Wales and his Danish wife IOTL were pro-Danish in the Schleswig conflict while everyone else in the family favored Prussia. Here we probably see the Prince of Wales and his Hannoverian wife complaining loudly while everyone looks on.
 
A more overtly pro-Prussian position in Britain means Denmark is even more pissed off to have been 'thrown to the wolves' by the British after two decades of promises flowing out of London ensuring British support for the Danish position over the Schleswig-Holstein Question. This might be enough to shift Danish popular opinion and governmental policy away from their IOTL fade away into obscurity & neutrality and possibly into a pro-French orbit.
 
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A more overtly pro-Prussian position in Britain means Denmark is even more pissed off to have been 'thrown to the wolves' by the British after two decades of promises flowing out of London ensuring British support for the Danish position over the Schleswig-Holstein Question. This might be enough to shift Danish popular opinion and governmental policy away from their IOTL fade away into obscurity & neutrality and possibly into a pro-French orbit.

These were the views of the royal family, not of the liveries. Denmark would've been thrown to the wolves anyways. I can't see the government of the day acting any different despite household differences.
 
These were the views of the royal family, not of the liveries. Denmark would've been thrown to the wolves anyways. I can't see the government of the day acting any different despite household differences.

Granted, however if there are more British royals who are overtly pro-German, or at least a perception of such due to there being a stronger contrast between the Prince of Wales and the rest of the royal family, it will change the public perception of British neutrality in the matter, especially in Denmark.
 
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