Frederick, Prince of Wales becomes King in 1730

While Britain was in the Thirty Years' Peace the PU was fine, but once war broke out and they realized what a liability Hannover was (for instance, they couldconquer the rest of Europe's overseas empires, and all that someone, say France, had to do, was march into Germany, hold Hannover hostage and Britain was forced to the negotiating table right quick), but that's taking George I-II's preference for Hannover over Britain into account. If Fred appoints Cumberland as regent for Hannover and doesn't really further bother with it, Britain might take a different view of Hannover.

Interesting. They really didn't think that through when they created the Act of Succession.
 
In that case,it probably just becomes another condition for accepting the Pragmatic Sanction.

Probably. Although whether Fred will accept it the same as his dad did is another story, isn't it? He might be completely disinterested in Hannover, so he couldn't care less if Diana isn't an equal match (especially if he never even visits there).
 
Interesting. They really didn't think that through when they created the Act of Succession.

Nope, they didn't. But technically Britain would've ended up in a PU with somewhere on the continent in most cases - if William and Mary had a kid, then Britain would be in PU with the Netherlands; if William remarried, that kid would put Britain into the same pot; if a few more butterflies had flapped their wings, and Anne's son had inherited, and the Danish royal family had run into their breeding problem a century earlier, it would've meant a re-emergence of the empire of Knut the Great.
 
Nope, they didn't. But technically Britain would've ended up in a PU with somewhere on the continent in most cases - if William and Mary had a kid, then Britain would be in PU with the Netherlands; if William remarried, that kid would put Britain into the same pot; if a few more butterflies had flapped their wings, and Anne's son had inherited, and the Danish royal family had run into their breeding problem a century earlier, it would've meant a re-emergence of the empire of Knut the Great.

Aye, short term thinking for a long term problem. Gets them every time aha
 
Probably. Although whether Fred will accept it the same as his dad did is another story, isn't it? He might be completely disinterested in Hannover, so he couldn't care less if Diana isn't an equal match (especially if he never even visits there).
He was born in Hannover and spent the first twenty-one years of his life there.Rather impossible that he's uninterested in Hannover.
 
He was born in Hannover and spent the first twenty-one years of his life there.Rather impossible that he's uninterested in Hannover.

Actually it isn't. He could view it rather dimly for various reasons - one of which being the years of separation causing a rift between him and his parents or perhaps he's more concerned with being British rather than German. Stranger things have happened
 
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