English King Laying Siege To Constantinople

How how is it possible to have someone who is the King of England to personally led a army and lay siege of Constantinople?

POD is 1500.
 
How how is it possible to have someone who is the King of England to personally led a army and lay siege of Constantinople?

POD is 1500.

In a word, no. Not with this pod. The only chance I could think of would be for Richard the Lionheart, and combining the third and fourth crusades.
 
Kings after Richard were interested in going on Crusade - Edward I even did so while still a prince.

And if Henry V wanted his son to go grab the Turk by the beard, I suppose it's possible you could get something.

But 1500? That's rather late.
 
Not easy.

George I served in the Great Turkish War (1683-99) before he was king. A few conveniently-timed royal deaths can bring him to the throne earlier and he can still command the Hanoverian army while leaving native ministers in charge in England.

The war has to take a significantly different path than OTL to have a siege of Constantinople, however, and for George to lead it. I would guess that the best time would be after the main Turkish army was destroyed at Zenta, and the attack on Constantinople would then be a surprise diversionary attack while the allies' main armies were engaged in Hungary and Serbia. Constantinople is a long way from the main conflict area; there would have to have been a southern thrust by the allies to bring it in range.
 
Oooh, well Richard IV did it in the 1490s. Alone. With a small knife for peeling fruit.
 
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