IOTL when Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (the widower of the UK's Princess Charlotte) became the first King of the Belgians that was only after he had refused an offer of the Greek throne... but what if he had accepted the Greek offer, before the Belgian one was made, instead?
Obviously he wouldn't have become King of the Belgians as well as King of Greece, so who would have filled that position instead of him?
Would he still have married the French princess whom his OTL version did (Louise of Orleans, daughter of Louis-Philippe) or would he have chosen somebody more appropriate to Greece... such as, maybe, a Russian princess if a suitable one was then available?
Being based further from Britain and Germany than IOTL, would he still have managed to bring Victoria and Albert together? (Might they have met and married anyway?)
Would he and his successors have managed to retain the Greek throne, instead of being evicted like the OTL first king (Otto or Othon, a member of the Bavarian Wittelsbachs)?
How would this difference in ruling dynasty affect Greece's foreign affairs and expansion?
Would Britain have relinquished control of the Ionian Islands to Greece at an earlier date than they did IOTL?
His TTL son & heir presumably wouldn't have set up a 'Congo Free State' as Leopold II of Belgium did: How would this difference from OTL affect the pattern of European colonisation in Africa?
Obviously he wouldn't have become King of the Belgians as well as King of Greece, so who would have filled that position instead of him?
Would he still have married the French princess whom his OTL version did (Louise of Orleans, daughter of Louis-Philippe) or would he have chosen somebody more appropriate to Greece... such as, maybe, a Russian princess if a suitable one was then available?
Being based further from Britain and Germany than IOTL, would he still have managed to bring Victoria and Albert together? (Might they have met and married anyway?)
Would he and his successors have managed to retain the Greek throne, instead of being evicted like the OTL first king (Otto or Othon, a member of the Bavarian Wittelsbachs)?
How would this difference in ruling dynasty affect Greece's foreign affairs and expansion?
Would Britain have relinquished control of the Ionian Islands to Greece at an earlier date than they did IOTL?
His TTL son & heir presumably wouldn't have set up a 'Congo Free State' as Leopold II of Belgium did: How would this difference from OTL affect the pattern of European colonisation in Africa?