What if the Prussian Scheme Happened
Monarchs of the United States of America
1789-1802: Henry I (House of Hohenzollern-America)[1]
1802-1813: Augustus I Ferdinand (House of Hohenzollern-America)[2]
1813-1845: Louis I Ferdinand (House of Hohenzollern-America)[3]
1845-1862: George I (House of Hohenzollern-America)[4]
1862-1873: Adelaide I (by birth - House of Hohenzollern-America, by marriage - House of Bonaparte-Moncalieri) [5]
1873-1927: George II (House of Bonaparte-Moncalieri) [6]
1927-2001: Victoria I (House of Bonaparte-Moncalieri) [7]
[1] After the ratification of the article of confederation in 1788 it was decided that a strong hand should be placed on the reigns of government. So, in 1789, the constitutional convention would ratify a new governing constitution that would place a king at the head of state.
The King would be mostly ceremonial and have limited power. It was also decided that each state would have a representative who would be styled as His/Her Honor the Representative of(name of state) the office of representative would be a 5 year term and the representative can run for a second and third term.
The last thing that needed to be decided was who would be King. The first and most obvious option was George Washington the hero of the American revolution but when asked he declined though he did accept the offer to become the first U.S president. At one point the name Henry of Prussia came up, Henry had been a prominent supporter of the American Revolution and was staying in New York at the time with his wife eventually he was offered the crown and after a few days of consideration he finally excepted and was crowned in Freedom hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
As King Henry very rarely got involved in politics and when he did he had a small presence. He saw three states admitted into the union those being Vermont in 1791, Kentucky in 1792 and Tennessee in 1796. During his reign he created multiple noble titles one of the first being Earl of Mount Vernon which was given the President George Washington after the end of his second term in 1797 which would start the tradition of Presidents being given noble titles after the end of their terms.
In 1793 the French Revolution took place and resulted in the execution of King Louis Xvi and his wife Maria Antonia of Austria(Marie Antoinette) Henry wanted to give the royal family refuge in the capital(which was later named Washington after president Washington after his death in 1799) but he was advised not to. In 1803 Henry died in his sleep at Freedom Palace which was built in the capital. Henry had never children and by the time he was chosen to become King his wife was well past child baring age. So in 1791 a succession act was passed declaring Henry’s brother as his heir.
[2] Prince Augustus Ferdinand of America and Prussia would rise to the occasion of Kingship on the day of the death of his brother - he and his wife Elisabeth Louise having moved to America some years prior, living separate from the court of his brother in Margravine, the soon to be capital of Ohio. Becoming King at the age of 73, many did not expect much from the King, awaiting for his sucessor, but Augustus I would leave his own small mark in American history.
A proud Prussian, with historic ties and familial ties to most German states and Poland, Augustus would be a major factor to consider in the great immigration waves to America which started around 1804 - after the rise of the French Empire and the Napoleonic wars. Many millions of Europeans of all stripes and ethnicities would fall free to the concept of a strong state over the sea - secure and free and at peace. Strongly in favour of the abolition of slavery - Augustus would try to expand the powers of the Monarchy in said direction - as a voice of the people and all classes - being famous for encouraging heavy southern militarism but at the same time proclaiming the freedom of all. Despite the recent and fledgeling life of the American Monarchy - Augustus is recorded as the man who cemented it in American life and culture.
Augustus would also cooperate with to clear out and overhaul the American constitution on many levels - expanding the powers of the King to include a moderating power, changing the office of President of the American Congress into the Office of the Prime Consul of America, which would become the head of government - and also encourage the introduction of legislation to turn the national government into a more cohesive, powerful and secure organization, while limiting the terms senators and representatives could run for their work - two.
Despite being a Prussian-American instead of being fully American, the old Augustus would embrace the image of the old Pater Patrie and Princes Maximus, as Napoleon had done in his rising French Empire. The American Senate and House of Representatives would both pass a petition to enter an alliance with France and to enter war with Britain - which America would win during one of the many coalitions. The collapse of the Spanish Empire that followed would also see America seize Florida. At the end of his reign, America had purchased the French colony of Louisiana, had conquered all of British North America and had asserted itself as the major power of the American Continent.
Augustus "the Strong" would die at peace in 1813, at the ripe old age of 82. He and his wife had plenty of children.
[3] Louis Ferdinand was the son of Augustus I Ferdinand and was born in 1772 in Friedrichsfelde Castle near Berlin. He was 16, almost 17, when his family moved to America on the selection of his uncle as the first King. He was the last king born outside the USA and raised in Prussia. He expected to be king someday and after the 1791 Act of Succession that expectation became a certainty.
Prince Louis immediately on his 18th birthday joined the United States Army and quickly rose through the officer ranks. He insisted he be a real soldier and served under Washington in the Whiskey Rebellion and then on the western frontier. By the time his father took the throne he was a Major.
Prince Louis was the most eligible bachelor in the country. He was strikingly handsome and his premature gray hair gave him a striking feature that enchanted the ladies. He was committed to only marry an American and from his arrival in the USA he'd developed a friendship with Eleanor Parke Custis, the step-granddaughter and adopted daughter of George Washington. At that time the Prince was 17 and she was 10. He didn't start courting her until she was the Lady Eleanor of Mount Vernon and 18 while he was 25.
Their wedding, after a two year engagement, in 1799 was the first Royal Wedding in the nation and captured the imagination of the public. It seemed the nation was in love with Princess Nelly. They began to have children immediately.
Once the Prince was first in line and married, his military duties became administrative and he was stationed in the Capital. He continued to rise in the ranks and was a Colonel when his father died in 1813. He was 41 years old when he became King.
During his reign the nation expanded into the Louisianna territory and then annexed Texas in the last year of his reign.
He died in 1844 at the age of 73.
[4] Named after his maternal Step-great-grandfather George Washington 1st Earl of Mount Vernon, Prince George was the eldest son and child of Prince Louis Ferdinand and Lady Eleanor of Mount Vernon a few days after his great uncle King Henry i gave Hume the title Duke of Vermont which would start a tradition of the first born son of the heir to the throne being given a Ducal title named after a state.
George Had no memory of being a only child because his eldest sister Martha Elizabeth was born just a year later in 1801 she would later be given the title Duchess of North Carolina starting the tradition of the eldest daughter of a monarch being given that title. George was the first U.S King to be born and raised on U.S soil with the three previous kings of being born in Prussia this made him have more of a connection to the country instead of his ancestral homeland of Prussia.
George was only 2 when King Henry I and 13 when his grandfather died and his father became King and he became crown Prince still holding his ducal title. Just like his father George joined the army at the age of 18 but would be sent home two years later after getting an injury that would leave with with a permanent limp.
A year after being sent home in 1821 George married Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom seconded born daughter of George IV. (OOC: in this timeline George iv has a slightly better relationship with his wife and the two manage to produce one more child, also Princess Charlotte of Wales doesn’t die giving birth to a stillborn son but instead gives birth to a living one named George. /OOC) This marriage was arranged to try and strengthen ties between The U.K and the U.S which worked to a certain extent. The two would have three children with the oldest dying at 10 from typhoid.
George inherited the American throne at 45 in 1845 and was crowned as George I seven months later his first act as King was to start the process of officially abolishing slavery in all U.S states. This was met with much opposition he was shocked to here that some of it was coming from his own eldest brother Prince John Augustus Duke of Georgia this would cause the already strained relationship from events in the past to become permanently cold with the two rarely ever speaking two each other.
in 1851 George began the construction of a new royal estate Liberty house in New York City which was Finished in 1854 this is where George would spend most of his free time. In 1859 as tensions began to rise between pro slavery states and anti slavery states it looked like states in the Deep South were about to secede from the union and form there own country and there were rumors that the pro slavery Prince John Augustus was chosen to be the King the rebellion was stopped before it could even begin In 1860 but there would still be problems later on.
In 1862 George was attending a play in the nation capital Washington D.C when the unexpected happened George was shot by a pro slavery and pro secession man named Henry Fishers doctors attempted to save the king but his wounds proved to be to serious and he was pronounced dead two hours later. Henry Fishers was sentenced to death by hanging a week later, not long after his death the Confederate Kingdom of America would be formed and a war would be sparked between the two countries. George was succeeded by his daughter, Aidlade.
[5] Adelaide was the eldest daughter and second child of George I and Queen Sophia. Upon the death of her elder brother, Prince George of Vermont, at the age of 10 in 1832, she became Heir Presumptive and was recognised as defacto Crown Princess when her father was crowned in 1845. By this point, Adelaide had married Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, aka Napoleon Jerome Bonaparte, often simply Jerome Bonaparte, son of the King of Westphalia under its Napoleonic regime. The pair married shortly after her father's coronation but would fail to produce heirs until almost 16 years later, this her younger sister was controversially married to Grand Duke Michael of Russia, youngest son of Nicholas I. This odd set of marriages would later be beneficial when the American Civil War began and the Confederate Kingdom(s) of America (an Empire in all but name), with the elderly John I Augustus, first Duke of Georgia installed as Emperor, attempted to establish it's independence and narrowly succeeded.
Though she did not support the secession, Adelaide felt that it would be hypocritical for her to force the southern kingdoms to remain under her rule given how her nation had established it's independence. Instead, under the guidance of her husband, she moved America formally in a more liberal direction, partnered with the Consuls, George McClellan, Horatio Seymour and briefly Horace Greeley, she pursued an anti-clerical liberal agenda and maintained the separation of church and state, refusing a papal request to set up the Catholic Church of America, meaning the Vatican threw support behind Emperor John I Augustus whilst Adelaide was supported by Britain, Napoleon III and Russia.
Jerome would technically later become the Head of the House of Bonaparte, but as his own children were in line to the American crown, he had been forced to abdicate his imperial claim upon marriage and so Napoleon III recogni1sed the legitimacy of his elder brother instead. This whilst the Head of the House of Bonaparte (and the founder of the House of Bonaparte-Moncalieri) he could not claim the imperial throne.
Adelaide would die in 1873 after a reign of only eleven years, it appears this was caused by complications during an emergency operation. She was succeeded by her son, George.
King George in 1924
[6] George Bonaparte was born in 1862 just months before his mother became Queen and named after his grandfather. He was only 11 years old when he became King, so his father, Prince Jerome, became regent.
Jerome had never been comfortable with his late wife's decision to not pursue the war that had begun, when Confederate forces had seized American forts and bases throughout their kingdom on her taking the throne, and her quickly ending it with a truce that yielded those forts and naval bases to the Confederate Kingdom upon payment to the USA of their agreed value. The truce had never led to a peace treaty and both Kingdoms claimed some of the same western territories, as did the Kingdom of Texas, which broke away from the Confederate Kingdom.
When Prince Jerome sent USA troops into the territory of Kansas, one of those disputed territories, it increased tensions and gruella warfare began. Then Jerome led through the elected government the outlawing of slavery through the nation and the western states of Kentucky and Missouri, both slave states, left the Union with Missouri joining the Confederate Kingdom and Kansas to Texas. (The former slave states of Maryland and Delaware did not leave the Union.)
This time Jerome did not accept this and when the Confederates and Texans attempted to seize USA Forts, he ordered the USA to fight back. For the first four years of the Regency, the three kingdoms were engaged in a war. However, both of the southern kingdoms were largely agricultural while the USA had been rapidly industrializing over the last few decades. It was a bloody conflict fought mainly in the south, but it always was a USA dominated fight until both kingdom surrendered in 1877.
Emperor John II was banished and he fled to Cuba. The King of Texas, Samuel II Houston, also was banished. He ended up in Argentina. The lesser nobility of the newly re-annexed kingdoms, were granted pardons and allowed to retain their titles and lands if they swore allegiance to the United States of America and to her King. The most prominent of these was the Duke of Richmond, Custis Lee, who'd inherited the Duchy from his father. Custis Lee was related to the royal family as his maternal grandfather was Queen Nelly's brother. (Same parentage as in OTL: Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis.) Duke Custis's submission was a major celebration before the teenage King and the Regent, included in the ceremony was his young daughter, Henrietta Lee, the same age as the King, as both were 15 years old.
In 1880 at the age of 18, King George ended the regency and granted his father the title of Duke of California, which had been conquered from Texas in the war that had now come to be known as Jerome's War. He and Henrietta Lee had been friends and then in love since the surrender ceremony and they were married within a few weeks of his maturity. This helped united the country.
The King and Queen started their big family the next year. He also grew a beard, and began to bald in the early 1890s. By the 20th Century his hair had gone white. Queen Henrietta gained weight with each child and never lost it, so by their last child she was quite big. But it seemed the King didn't mind and their love was quite genuine.
George saw the continuing industrialization of the Kingdom, including four transcontinental railroad which ended on the Pacific in San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver. (OTL BC city) His reign saw the annexation of Hawaii, Alaska, Cuba, and the Philippines. The last two happened as a result of the 1905-1906 war with Spain. After than the USA became a colonial nation and work was begun on a canal to connect the Atlantic and the Pacific through Nicaragua. However, King George was able to keep the USA out of the Great War of 1910-1921 and see the USA become an even more prosperous nation in the second and third decades of the 20th Century as the inventions of Nicolai Tesla started "the 2nd Industrial Revolution" with first his AC current and then his Beamed Current.
King George passed in 1927 at the age of 65. He had many children and grandchildren. His wife survived him also. The next monarch was __________________________.
[7]
Queen Victoria of America was born on September 1, 1920 as the only daughter of Prince John, who died in 1924 from polio, leaving Princess Victoria as the heir to the American throne, which she inherited at the age of seven after her father's death. As such, she would be under a regency council headed by her mother Elizabeth until the age of 18, when she would formally become Queen of America.
As Queen of America, Victoria would become known as an affable and charismatic monarch, vocal and outspoken in politics, especially with her dedication to seeing America become a world power. This would make her someone who would support American involvement in the Trans-Oceanic War, which would see America become a global power and one of the three main superpowers of the world with Victoria being crowned Empress of America in the aftermath of the American victory in the Trans-Oceanic War. When asked on this, she would reply that as America was now a global power, she was now no mere Queen, but an Empress.
In domestic matters, she would support progressive causes like civil rights for both minorities and women, arguing that everyone in America was an American and as such should be treated equally. Towards the later portion of her life, she would be someone who would patronize LGBT causes, which some have argued in recent years was due to her closet bisexual nature with her friends after her death saying she "liked girls as much as boys".
Victoria would die on March 25, 2001 at the age of 81 and would be succeeded by ____________.
Monarchs of the United States of America
1789-1802: Henry I (House of Hohenzollern-America)[1]
1802-1813: Augustus I Ferdinand (House of Hohenzollern-America)[2]
1813-1845: Louis I Ferdinand (House of Hohenzollern-America)[3]
1845-1862: George I (House of Hohenzollern-America)[4]
1862-1873: Adelaide I (by birth - House of Hohenzollern-America, by marriage - House of Bonaparte-Moncalieri) [5]
1873-1927: George II (House of Bonaparte-Moncalieri) [6]
1927-2001: Victoria I (House of Bonaparte-Moncalieri) [7]
The King would be mostly ceremonial and have limited power. It was also decided that each state would have a representative who would be styled as His/Her Honor the Representative of(name of state) the office of representative would be a 5 year term and the representative can run for a second and third term.
The last thing that needed to be decided was who would be King. The first and most obvious option was George Washington the hero of the American revolution but when asked he declined though he did accept the offer to become the first U.S president. At one point the name Henry of Prussia came up, Henry had been a prominent supporter of the American Revolution and was staying in New York at the time with his wife eventually he was offered the crown and after a few days of consideration he finally excepted and was crowned in Freedom hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
As King Henry very rarely got involved in politics and when he did he had a small presence. He saw three states admitted into the union those being Vermont in 1791, Kentucky in 1792 and Tennessee in 1796. During his reign he created multiple noble titles one of the first being Earl of Mount Vernon which was given the President George Washington after the end of his second term in 1797 which would start the tradition of Presidents being given noble titles after the end of their terms.
In 1793 the French Revolution took place and resulted in the execution of King Louis Xvi and his wife Maria Antonia of Austria(Marie Antoinette) Henry wanted to give the royal family refuge in the capital(which was later named Washington after president Washington after his death in 1799) but he was advised not to. In 1803 Henry died in his sleep at Freedom Palace which was built in the capital. Henry had never children and by the time he was chosen to become King his wife was well past child baring age. So in 1791 a succession act was passed declaring Henry’s brother as his heir.
A proud Prussian, with historic ties and familial ties to most German states and Poland, Augustus would be a major factor to consider in the great immigration waves to America which started around 1804 - after the rise of the French Empire and the Napoleonic wars. Many millions of Europeans of all stripes and ethnicities would fall free to the concept of a strong state over the sea - secure and free and at peace. Strongly in favour of the abolition of slavery - Augustus would try to expand the powers of the Monarchy in said direction - as a voice of the people and all classes - being famous for encouraging heavy southern militarism but at the same time proclaiming the freedom of all. Despite the recent and fledgeling life of the American Monarchy - Augustus is recorded as the man who cemented it in American life and culture.
Augustus would also cooperate with to clear out and overhaul the American constitution on many levels - expanding the powers of the King to include a moderating power, changing the office of President of the American Congress into the Office of the Prime Consul of America, which would become the head of government - and also encourage the introduction of legislation to turn the national government into a more cohesive, powerful and secure organization, while limiting the terms senators and representatives could run for their work - two.
Despite being a Prussian-American instead of being fully American, the old Augustus would embrace the image of the old Pater Patrie and Princes Maximus, as Napoleon had done in his rising French Empire. The American Senate and House of Representatives would both pass a petition to enter an alliance with France and to enter war with Britain - which America would win during one of the many coalitions. The collapse of the Spanish Empire that followed would also see America seize Florida. At the end of his reign, America had purchased the French colony of Louisiana, had conquered all of British North America and had asserted itself as the major power of the American Continent.
Augustus "the Strong" would die at peace in 1813, at the ripe old age of 82. He and his wife had plenty of children.
Prince Louis immediately on his 18th birthday joined the United States Army and quickly rose through the officer ranks. He insisted he be a real soldier and served under Washington in the Whiskey Rebellion and then on the western frontier. By the time his father took the throne he was a Major.
Prince Louis was the most eligible bachelor in the country. He was strikingly handsome and his premature gray hair gave him a striking feature that enchanted the ladies. He was committed to only marry an American and from his arrival in the USA he'd developed a friendship with Eleanor Parke Custis, the step-granddaughter and adopted daughter of George Washington. At that time the Prince was 17 and she was 10. He didn't start courting her until she was the Lady Eleanor of Mount Vernon and 18 while he was 25.
Once the Prince was first in line and married, his military duties became administrative and he was stationed in the Capital. He continued to rise in the ranks and was a Colonel when his father died in 1813. He was 41 years old when he became King.
During his reign the nation expanded into the Louisianna territory and then annexed Texas in the last year of his reign.
He died in 1844 at the age of 73.
[4] Named after his maternal Step-great-grandfather George Washington 1st Earl of Mount Vernon, Prince George was the eldest son and child of Prince Louis Ferdinand and Lady Eleanor of Mount Vernon a few days after his great uncle King Henry i gave Hume the title Duke of Vermont which would start a tradition of the first born son of the heir to the throne being given a Ducal title named after a state.
George Had no memory of being a only child because his eldest sister Martha Elizabeth was born just a year later in 1801 she would later be given the title Duchess of North Carolina starting the tradition of the eldest daughter of a monarch being given that title. George was the first U.S King to be born and raised on U.S soil with the three previous kings of being born in Prussia this made him have more of a connection to the country instead of his ancestral homeland of Prussia.
George was only 2 when King Henry I and 13 when his grandfather died and his father became King and he became crown Prince still holding his ducal title. Just like his father George joined the army at the age of 18 but would be sent home two years later after getting an injury that would leave with with a permanent limp.
A year after being sent home in 1821 George married Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom seconded born daughter of George IV. (OOC: in this timeline George iv has a slightly better relationship with his wife and the two manage to produce one more child, also Princess Charlotte of Wales doesn’t die giving birth to a stillborn son but instead gives birth to a living one named George. /OOC) This marriage was arranged to try and strengthen ties between The U.K and the U.S which worked to a certain extent. The two would have three children with the oldest dying at 10 from typhoid.
George inherited the American throne at 45 in 1845 and was crowned as George I seven months later his first act as King was to start the process of officially abolishing slavery in all U.S states. This was met with much opposition he was shocked to here that some of it was coming from his own eldest brother Prince John Augustus Duke of Georgia this would cause the already strained relationship from events in the past to become permanently cold with the two rarely ever speaking two each other.
in 1851 George began the construction of a new royal estate Liberty house in New York City which was Finished in 1854 this is where George would spend most of his free time. In 1859 as tensions began to rise between pro slavery states and anti slavery states it looked like states in the Deep South were about to secede from the union and form there own country and there were rumors that the pro slavery Prince John Augustus was chosen to be the King the rebellion was stopped before it could even begin In 1860 but there would still be problems later on.
In 1862 George was attending a play in the nation capital Washington D.C when the unexpected happened George was shot by a pro slavery and pro secession man named Henry Fishers doctors attempted to save the king but his wounds proved to be to serious and he was pronounced dead two hours later. Henry Fishers was sentenced to death by hanging a week later, not long after his death the Confederate Kingdom of America would be formed and a war would be sparked between the two countries. George was succeeded by his daughter, Aidlade.
Though she did not support the secession, Adelaide felt that it would be hypocritical for her to force the southern kingdoms to remain under her rule given how her nation had established it's independence. Instead, under the guidance of her husband, she moved America formally in a more liberal direction, partnered with the Consuls, George McClellan, Horatio Seymour and briefly Horace Greeley, she pursued an anti-clerical liberal agenda and maintained the separation of church and state, refusing a papal request to set up the Catholic Church of America, meaning the Vatican threw support behind Emperor John I Augustus whilst Adelaide was supported by Britain, Napoleon III and Russia.
Adelaide would die in 1873 after a reign of only eleven years, it appears this was caused by complications during an emergency operation. She was succeeded by her son, George.
King George in 1924
[6] George Bonaparte was born in 1862 just months before his mother became Queen and named after his grandfather. He was only 11 years old when he became King, so his father, Prince Jerome, became regent.
Jerome had never been comfortable with his late wife's decision to not pursue the war that had begun, when Confederate forces had seized American forts and bases throughout their kingdom on her taking the throne, and her quickly ending it with a truce that yielded those forts and naval bases to the Confederate Kingdom upon payment to the USA of their agreed value. The truce had never led to a peace treaty and both Kingdoms claimed some of the same western territories, as did the Kingdom of Texas, which broke away from the Confederate Kingdom.
When Prince Jerome sent USA troops into the territory of Kansas, one of those disputed territories, it increased tensions and gruella warfare began. Then Jerome led through the elected government the outlawing of slavery through the nation and the western states of Kentucky and Missouri, both slave states, left the Union with Missouri joining the Confederate Kingdom and Kansas to Texas. (The former slave states of Maryland and Delaware did not leave the Union.)
This time Jerome did not accept this and when the Confederates and Texans attempted to seize USA Forts, he ordered the USA to fight back. For the first four years of the Regency, the three kingdoms were engaged in a war. However, both of the southern kingdoms were largely agricultural while the USA had been rapidly industrializing over the last few decades. It was a bloody conflict fought mainly in the south, but it always was a USA dominated fight until both kingdom surrendered in 1877.
Emperor John II was banished and he fled to Cuba. The King of Texas, Samuel II Houston, also was banished. He ended up in Argentina. The lesser nobility of the newly re-annexed kingdoms, were granted pardons and allowed to retain their titles and lands if they swore allegiance to the United States of America and to her King. The most prominent of these was the Duke of Richmond, Custis Lee, who'd inherited the Duchy from his father. Custis Lee was related to the royal family as his maternal grandfather was Queen Nelly's brother. (Same parentage as in OTL: Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis.) Duke Custis's submission was a major celebration before the teenage King and the Regent, included in the ceremony was his young daughter, Henrietta Lee, the same age as the King, as both were 15 years old.
In 1880 at the age of 18, King George ended the regency and granted his father the title of Duke of California, which had been conquered from Texas in the war that had now come to be known as Jerome's War. He and Henrietta Lee had been friends and then in love since the surrender ceremony and they were married within a few weeks of his maturity. This helped united the country.
The King and Queen started their big family the next year. He also grew a beard, and began to bald in the early 1890s. By the 20th Century his hair had gone white. Queen Henrietta gained weight with each child and never lost it, so by their last child she was quite big. But it seemed the King didn't mind and their love was quite genuine.
George saw the continuing industrialization of the Kingdom, including four transcontinental railroad which ended on the Pacific in San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver. (OTL BC city) His reign saw the annexation of Hawaii, Alaska, Cuba, and the Philippines. The last two happened as a result of the 1905-1906 war with Spain. After than the USA became a colonial nation and work was begun on a canal to connect the Atlantic and the Pacific through Nicaragua. However, King George was able to keep the USA out of the Great War of 1910-1921 and see the USA become an even more prosperous nation in the second and third decades of the 20th Century as the inventions of Nicolai Tesla started "the 2nd Industrial Revolution" with first his AC current and then his Beamed Current.
King George passed in 1927 at the age of 65. He had many children and grandchildren. His wife survived him also. The next monarch was __________________________.
Queen Victoria of America was born on September 1, 1920 as the only daughter of Prince John, who died in 1924 from polio, leaving Princess Victoria as the heir to the American throne, which she inherited at the age of seven after her father's death. As such, she would be under a regency council headed by her mother Elizabeth until the age of 18, when she would formally become Queen of America.
As Queen of America, Victoria would become known as an affable and charismatic monarch, vocal and outspoken in politics, especially with her dedication to seeing America become a world power. This would make her someone who would support American involvement in the Trans-Oceanic War, which would see America become a global power and one of the three main superpowers of the world with Victoria being crowned Empress of America in the aftermath of the American victory in the Trans-Oceanic War. When asked on this, she would reply that as America was now a global power, she was now no mere Queen, but an Empress.
In domestic matters, she would support progressive causes like civil rights for both minorities and women, arguing that everyone in America was an American and as such should be treated equally. Towards the later portion of her life, she would be someone who would patronize LGBT causes, which some have argued in recent years was due to her closet bisexual nature with her friends after her death saying she "liked girls as much as boys".
Victoria would die on March 25, 2001 at the age of 81 and would be succeeded by ____________.
