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The six daughters of King George III of Hanover and Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, were Charlotte (the Princess Royal), Augusta Sophia, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia and Amelia. Of these six (who had nine additional brothers), only three married in Charlotte, Elizabeth and Mary and they did so later than typical. The reasons are various but certainly not for lack of interest from the six women, who suffered their father's madness, their mother's strict control and a distancing from more eligible bachelors (with some of the sisters famously pursuing married or much older men simply because it was who was around them).

So. Supposing that their brothers are able to excercise and effect more freedom on behalf of their sisters, or that George III is not crazy or died early or that their mother is much less co-dependent on her daughters or anything else that you might fancy...

Who might be their prospective beaus, either in British high society or overseas in Europe? Three of these women of course married OTL, but one did so to her cousin while all three who did marry had no issue. Were there perhaps handsome young officers or noblemen that could have tried to court them, or royals of Scandinavia or Germany that might have proven suitable? Perhaps a grim and bearded Russian fellow from the east, dressed in furs? Or perhaps even some colonial or commonwealth fellow, full of good fortune but very little in terms of prestigious ancestry?
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