what would of happened if King James I and his son Charles had died in the winter of 1619, shortly after Elizabeth of Bohemia's husband became King of Bohemia?
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what would of happened if King James I and his son Charles had in the winter of 1619, shortly after Elizabeth of Bohemia's husband became King of Bohemia?
hehe, finally. I've been waiting for this TL to appear on this forum; I find it fascinating. With a stronger Protestant faction, I reckon we could see Frederick being restored to the Palatinate - the whole Palatinate - in the ensuing peace treaty. If you follow the line of successive OTL Counts Palatine, by about 1685 the inheritor is the Catholic Count of the Palatinate-Neuburg (and Duke of Julich-Berg) which with a little stretch of the imagination but surely no ASB could lead to another Act of Succession denying the Catholics the throne. If we then backtrack to the nearest Protestant heir, the new King (or rather, Queen) is...you guessed it...Sophia, Electress of Hanover, leading to the quite brilliantly awesome England-Scotland-Ireland-Hanover-Bohemia-Palatinate Personal Union. On top of that, the heir presumptive (in 1685) and I believe the OTL successor to the Duke of Julich-Berg became the Duchess of Orleans in around that period - she who caused the War of the Palatine Succession. Thus, with only a tiny bit of tweaking, by the year 1700 you have a King of England who claims to be the rightful King of France and a King of France who claims to be the rightful King of England.![]()