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Waldemar of Prussia, Prince of California, b. 1817, r. (1846) to 1867, m. 1847, Grand Duchess Catherine Michaelovna (1827 to 1894)
Waldemar of Prussia, Prince of California, b. 1817, r. (1846) to 1867, m. 1847, Grand Duchess Catherine Michaelovna (1827 to 1894)
1) William, Prince of California, b. 1848, r. 1867 to 1913, m. 1873, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853-1920)
a) William, Hereditary Prince of California, b. Early 1874, d. 1875
b) Nicholas, Hereditary Prince of California, b. Late 1874, d. 1892
c) Alexander, Prince of California, b. 1875, r. 1913 to 1926, m. Grand Duchess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892 to 1981)
x) Victoria, Princess of California, b. 1912, r. 1926 to 2001, m. Maximillian of Waldeck and Pymont
x) one other daughter after 1912
x) five other daughters .
2) Maryanne, Duchess Consort of Saxe Coburg Gotha, b. 1851, d. 1917, m. 1874, Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900)
x) has issue
3) Catherine, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel, b. 1855, d. 1921, m. 1875, Frederick William III, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1854-1888)
x) several children including William II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
4) Prince Michael, 1st Duke of Alaska, b. 1856, d. 1910, m. Caroline Mathilde of Holstein Gottorp
a) Nicholas, 2nd Duke / 1st Prince of Alaska, b. post 1878
x) has sons
5) Charlotte of California, Abbess of St. Michael's, b. 1857, d. 1937, never married, no issue
What If ... the "California Republic" succeeded in 1846 and elected Waldemar of Prussia as monarch
Monarchs of California:
(1846) to 1867 : Waldemar I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (1)
1867-1913: William I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (2)
1913-1926: Alexander I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (3)
1926-1987: Victoria I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (4)
1987-2000: Alexander II (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma-Walbeck) (5)
(5) Born in 1932 to a world still in the throes of economic depression, Prince Alexander and his siblings were brought along on charity visits - a publicity event for the most part, but it succeeded in implanting a great sense of responsibility in Alexander, for he also heard a few people ask why they still needed the royal family. Too young to fight in the second world war, Alexander was nevertheless enrolled in the Californian navy at the age of sixteen, returning home after eight years to marry his third cousin, Princess Michaela, the eldest daughter of the deceased Prince Nicholas of Alaska. It was a match meant to reconcile the two branches of the royal family, though the
After that, Alexander was content to settle down to a quiet life. His years in the navy had given him an appreciation for alcohol and women (and men, some would later claim, though this was neither confirmed or denied), and though he remained loyal to Michaela, he started his own private vineyard, which eventually became its' own business - PrinzVinz. Alexander, of course, enjoyed his own product, but was shocked into sobriety by the death of his brother, William, in 1970, from drink-driving, for which the prince seems to have held himself partially responsible.
Thrust into the spotlight by his mother's surprise abdication in 1987, King Alexander II received a boost in popularity when he travelled to Santa Cruz to offer aid to the victims of the Loma Pieta earthquake. Otherwise, especially after 1991, he was content to stay out of politics and focus more on PrinzVinz. Then, after the New Year's celebrations on 2000, he surprised everyone by leaving his majority stockholdings to his eldest son, Nicholas, and then abdicated the throne. Many saw it as a cheap attempt to copy his mother's famous abdication, and when questioned, he said "Certainly society's elders should be respected, but we must also know when it is time to let the next generation have their turn. That's what my mother taught me, and that is what I intend to teach my son."
Alexander and Michaela retired to their private villa at Santa Barbara, and were greatly disappointed when Nicholas almost immediately pawned PrinzVinz off on to his younger brother (and presumed heir due to not having married), Prince Victor. Determined to keep his private life private, Alexander gave only two personal interviews before dying in 2015.
Monarchs of California:
(1846) to 1867 : Waldemar I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (1)
1867-1913: William I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (2)
1913-1926: Alexander I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (3)
1926-1987: Victoria I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (4)
1987-2000: Alexander II (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma-Walbeck) (5)
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(1) By a miracle, the declaration of independence by the Calfornia Republic from Mexico on June 14th had succeeded. But the provisional government knew that the nation was vulnerable and needed protection from one of the major powers - not Mexico or Spain, nor America or Britain. And so they turned to the German states, and to Prussia.
Waldemar of Prussia, grandson of the King of Prussia, was known to travel. From the Mediterranean to South America and India, Waldemar had returned to Prussia in 1845 after the death of his friend in Punjab. This put him in Prussia when the request from William Ide came in for effective protectorate status. Frederick William IV was open to the request, but wanted a Prussian noble to be installed as head of state, although power would be retained by the provisional government. Few candidates wanted to volunteer - but Waldemar nominated himself and by the Summer of 1847, he arrived in Sonoma, the capital of the new state.
Waldemar was unmarried, and was encouraged to find a wife and have children and an invite went out to Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich that Waldemar, whose official style was undecided at that point, should marry Grand Duchess Catherine. This effectively gave California allies in Russia and Prussia, and the marriage was undertaken by proxy in 1847 before Catherine travelled to Sonoma.
The pair had five children from late 1848. The marriage solved the problem of Waldemars title, whilst the "Republic" had been quietly dropped and the nation simply known as California, all official noticed simply called him Prince Waldemar of Prussia.
One school of thought was that California establish itself a Grand Duchy, another that it create itself as a Principality and another that it reframe itself as the Kingdom of California. Russia and Prussia vetoed the latter, having no desire to have California acquire ideas above it's station - so it was eventually deemed a Sovereign Principality.
In 1861, California saw the American Civil War erupt. Despite initial inclinations to remain neutral, Waldemar influenced his government to officially side with the Union against the Confederate States, although any participation in actual conflict was limited, California was officially thanked by President Salmon Chase for their aide and upon Chase's assassination in 1865, Waldemar attended his funeral and met President Cassius Clay. This was Waldemar's first and only state visit as monarch of California, and led to Waldemar vowing he would have one of his eventual grandchildren named Salmon in honor of President Chase.
1867, Waldemar passed away at the age of forty to be succeeded as monarch of California by his eldest son, William.
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(2) William Michael Frederick, was born in 1848, the oldest child to Prince Waldemar and Princess Catherine.
He enjoyed an excellent education and grew up in a happy household within Sonoma.
His father’s death came a few weeks after William’s eighteenth birthday and threw William onto the world stage.
One of the earliest events in his reign was the arrangement for purchasing the Russian territory of Alaska.
The purchase would see 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km2) of new territory to the Principality of California for the cost of ₽7 million.
For the best six years, William enjoyed seeing his Principality grow rich from the gold found on the Western Coast as well as in the territory of Alaska. This influx of gold would be invested in infrastructure as well as trading transportation such as trains and ships.
On 11th May 1873, William married the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, the second (and only surviving) daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his first wife Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, daughter of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Wilhelmine of Baden.
The marriage had been arranged between William, Alexander II and William’s mother, Princess Catherine Michaelovna.
Following his own marriage, William would find suitable husbands for his sisters. First would be Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria of Britain and Prince-Consort Albert, Alfred would later go onto inherit the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, from his childless uncle.
For his second sister he arranged the marriage to a distant cousin, Frederick William III, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, the eldest son of Frederick William George Adolph of Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim and his second wife Princess Anna of Prussia.
William and Maria would share 40 years of happy marriage and together have eight children.
In later years William would experience many first for monarchs, such as the first to drive a car, ride in a plane and star in a motion picture.
His death in 1913, was caused by cancer, after years of smoking. William was a massive supporter of California Golden Tobacco company, with the long dry season, together with irrigation, that gave the country the very best. conditions that are needed for the successful cultivation of the tobacco plant.
William was succeeded by his son, Alexander. He would be buried with in Sonoma Cathedral, alongside his father and mother.
(3) Born in 1875, the third, but eldest surviving son, of Prince William and Grand Duchess Marie. He did not marry until he was almost 35 when he married Grand Duchess Marina Petrovna, a second cousin, in line with the tradition that future rulers of California had to have a Russian spouse. Whilst there was an almost twenty year age difference, the relationship between the pair was reportedly happy and Marina produced two daughters, the eldest in 1912, and later survived her husband by fifty five years.
Alexander had a brief reign of thirteen years, passing when he was fifty one following a suspected heart attack. Given that Alexander only had daughters and surviving sisters, it raised the thorny question of Californian succession which had never been truly defined in the previous sixty years. It meant that upon his succession to the throne in 1913, Alexander's heir presumptive was his cousin, the second Duke of Alaska. This was certainly in line with both the Russian and Prussian influences on the House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma. But Alexander wished to appear progressive and in 1918, asked his Prime Minister, John Eshleman, and the Parliament of California to explore codifying the succession laws as male preference primogeniture, effectively allowing his daughters to inherit.
Ultimately in 1922, the legislation was ( passed, despite / rejected, due to) the opposition of the Duke of Alaska, who had been making his opinions clear since Alexander had first raised it. The legislation had taken so long to pass due to the Russian Revolution, and Alexander being instrumental in welcoming many of his Russian relatives to seek refuge in California, resulting in the creation of the City of New Moscow (where OTL Fontana was founded in 1913).
The arrival of so many Russian nobles arriving in California may have swayed the outcome of the legislation.
Thus in 1926, Alexander was succeeded in California by his eldest daughter and in Alaska by his cousin, Nicolas of Alaska.
(4) Born in 1912, Victoria of California was only fourteen when she succeeded her father. Her ascendancy to the throne was challenged by her cousin, Nicholas of Alaska, although the Californian Prime-Minister, Heinrich von Graf, who, as head of government, was responsible for the drafting of the new succession laws. To appease both sides, California and Alaska were divided - With Victoria becoming the official new "Queen" of the elevated Californian Kingdom while Nicholas become the new Grand Prince of Alaska. The division of the two states was rather friendly, despite the earlier enmities, and the two countries would walk hand in hand into a dangerous new world.
The rise of the American Progressive party, a heavily-nationalistic party that sought to reinforce America's standing in the world and assure American hegemony over the American continent, was seen with very bad eyes in California. President Henderson's claims that America had "some rights of oversight" over California's interior regions, who had been a center of American immigration, were seen with very bad eyes in Sonoma, and thus, both Alaska and California would enter a period of cultural, political and military consolidation that would separate both states from the American sphere of influence.
In California, the drafting of a new constitution that was signed to law by Victoria when she became eighteen, forcibly separated the nation from both the Anglo and Hispano-sphere. California, due to having German monarchs, had naturally attracted a lot of Swiss, German and Austria immigration, and despite California's very diverse populace, ranging Russians to Frenchmen, German speakers presented a small majority of 53%, and so, German was made the official language of California, making California the first German speaking country outside of Europe (Alaska also officially adopted Russian as it's official language, due to the very large presence of Russians in the land, and the Savinkov's regime extremism saw even more Russian-speakers coming in). California, (that was very rich by this point) up-turned it's educational and military policy, and the aftermath of WW1 and the Socialist revolution of 1926 in Germany, even more germans came in, especially exiled German royals. This influx of mainly educated people and many new workers made California even richer, with California's universities becoming some of the better staffed in the world.
California and Alaska would enter the second world war against Fascist Russia and Socialist Germany in 1944, officially on the side of the allies, and both would grow heavily in the post-war boom. Victoria would become a extremely popular figure in world politics, seen as a symbol of stability and fashion. Her reign would be mostly peaceful, besides the second world war, and her abdication in 1987 was a very mourned affair, despite the Queen remaining alive. When asked her reason for her abdication, the Queen simply replied "I am a tired, old goat. Even old goats deserve some rest."
Victoria would marry Maximilian von Walbeck zu Pyrmont, the fourth son of an exiled German Duke. The couple would have over seven children, and the couple would stay closely together until Victoria's death in 2001. Her funeral was attended by more than 3000 foreign dignitaries.
(1) By a miracle, the declaration of independence by the Calfornia Republic from Mexico on June 14th had succeeded. But the provisional government knew that the nation was vulnerable and needed protection from one of the major powers - not Mexico or Spain, nor America or Britain. And so they turned to the German states, and to Prussia.
Waldemar of Prussia, grandson of the King of Prussia, was known to travel. From the Mediterranean to South America and India, Waldemar had returned to Prussia in 1845 after the death of his friend in Punjab. This put him in Prussia when the request from William Ide came in for effective protectorate status. Frederick William IV was open to the request, but wanted a Prussian noble to be installed as head of state, although power would be retained by the provisional government. Few candidates wanted to volunteer - but Waldemar nominated himself and by the Summer of 1847, he arrived in Sonoma, the capital of the new state.
Waldemar was unmarried, and was encouraged to find a wife and have children and an invite went out to Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich that Waldemar, whose official style was undecided at that point, should marry Grand Duchess Catherine. This effectively gave California allies in Russia and Prussia, and the marriage was undertaken by proxy in 1847 before Catherine travelled to Sonoma.
The pair had five children from late 1848. The marriage solved the problem of Waldemars title, whilst the "Republic" had been quietly dropped and the nation simply known as California, all official noticed simply called him Prince Waldemar of Prussia.
One school of thought was that California establish itself a Grand Duchy, another that it create itself as a Principality and another that it reframe itself as the Kingdom of California. Russia and Prussia vetoed the latter, having no desire to have California acquire ideas above it's station - so it was eventually deemed a Sovereign Principality.
In 1861, California saw the American Civil War erupt. Despite initial inclinations to remain neutral, Waldemar influenced his government to officially side with the Union against the Confederate States, although any participation in actual conflict was limited, California was officially thanked by President Salmon Chase for their aide and upon Chase's assassination in 1865, Waldemar attended his funeral and met President Cassius Clay. This was Waldemar's first and only state visit as monarch of California, and led to Waldemar vowing he would have one of his eventual grandchildren named Salmon in honor of President Chase.
1867, Waldemar passed away at the age of forty to be succeeded as monarch of California by his eldest son, William.
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(2) William Michael Frederick, was born in 1848, the oldest child to Prince Waldemar and Princess Catherine.
He enjoyed an excellent education and grew up in a happy household within Sonoma.
His father’s death came a few weeks after William’s eighteenth birthday and threw William onto the world stage.
One of the earliest events in his reign was the arrangement for purchasing the Russian territory of Alaska.
The purchase would see 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km2) of new territory to the Principality of California for the cost of ₽7 million.
For the best six years, William enjoyed seeing his Principality grow rich from the gold found on the Western Coast as well as in the territory of Alaska. This influx of gold would be invested in infrastructure as well as trading transportation such as trains and ships.
On 11th May 1873, William married the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, the second (and only surviving) daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his first wife Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, daughter of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Wilhelmine of Baden.
The marriage had been arranged between William, Alexander II and William’s mother, Princess Catherine Michaelovna.
Following his own marriage, William would find suitable husbands for his sisters. First would be Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria of Britain and Prince-Consort Albert, Alfred would later go onto inherit the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, from his childless uncle.
For his second sister he arranged the marriage to a distant cousin, Frederick William III, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, the eldest son of Frederick William George Adolph of Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim and his second wife Princess Anna of Prussia.
William and Maria would share 40 years of happy marriage and together have eight children.
In later years William would experience many first for monarchs, such as the first to drive a car, ride in a plane and star in a motion picture.
His death in 1913, was caused by cancer, after years of smoking. William was a massive supporter of California Golden Tobacco company, with the long dry season, together with irrigation, that gave the country the very best. conditions that are needed for the successful cultivation of the tobacco plant.
William was succeeded by his son, Alexander. He would be buried with in Sonoma Cathedral, alongside his father and mother.
(3) Born in 1875, the third, but eldest surviving son, of Prince William and Grand Duchess Marie. He did not marry until he was almost 35 when he married Grand Duchess Marina Petrovna, a second cousin, in line with the tradition that future rulers of California had to have a Russian spouse. Whilst there was an almost twenty year age difference, the relationship between the pair was reportedly happy and Marina produced two daughters, the eldest in 1912, and later survived her husband by fifty five years.
Alexander had a brief reign of thirteen years, passing when he was fifty one following a suspected heart attack. Given that Alexander only had daughters and surviving sisters, it raised the thorny question of Californian succession which had never been truly defined in the previous sixty years. It meant that upon his succession to the throne in 1913, Alexander's heir presumptive was his cousin, the second Duke of Alaska. This was certainly in line with both the Russian and Prussian influences on the House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma. But Alexander wished to appear progressive and in 1918, asked his Prime Minister, John Eshleman, and the Parliament of California to explore codifying the succession laws as male preference primogeniture, effectively allowing his daughters to inherit.
Ultimately in 1922, the legislation was ( passed, despite / rejected, due to) the opposition of the Duke of Alaska, who had been making his opinions clear since Alexander had first raised it. The legislation had taken so long to pass due to the Russian Revolution, and Alexander being instrumental in welcoming many of his Russian relatives to seek refuge in California, resulting in the creation of the City of New Moscow (where OTL Fontana was founded in 1913).
The arrival of so many Russian nobles arriving in California may have swayed the outcome of the legislation.
Thus in 1926, Alexander was succeeded in California by his eldest daughter and in Alaska by his cousin, Nicolas of Alaska.
(4) Born in 1912, Victoria of California was only fourteen when she succeeded her father. Her ascendancy to the throne was challenged by her cousin, Nicholas of Alaska, although the Californian Prime-Minister, Heinrich von Graf, who, as head of government, was responsible for the drafting of the new succession laws. To appease both sides, California and Alaska were divided - With Victoria becoming the official new "Queen" of the elevated Californian Kingdom while Nicholas become the new Grand Prince of Alaska. The division of the two states was rather friendly, despite the earlier enmities, and the two countries would walk hand in hand into a dangerous new world.
The rise of the American Progressive party, a heavily-nationalistic party that sought to reinforce America's standing in the world and assure American hegemony over the American continent, was seen with very bad eyes in California. President Henderson's claims that America had "some rights of oversight" over California's interior regions, who had been a center of American immigration, were seen with very bad eyes in Sonoma, and thus, both Alaska and California would enter a period of cultural, political and military consolidation that would separate both states from the American sphere of influence.
In California, the drafting of a new constitution that was signed to law by Victoria when she became eighteen, forcibly separated the nation from both the Anglo and Hispano-sphere. California, due to having German monarchs, had naturally attracted a lot of Swiss, German and Austria immigration, and despite California's very diverse populace, ranging Russians to Frenchmen, German speakers presented a small majority of 53%, and so, German was made the official language of California, making California the first German speaking country outside of Europe (Alaska also officially adopted Russian as it's official language, due to the very large presence of Russians in the land, and the Savinkov's regime extremism saw even more Russian-speakers coming in). California, (that was very rich by this point) up-turned it's educational and military policy, and the aftermath of WW1 and the Socialist revolution of 1926 in Germany, even more germans came in, especially exiled German royals. This influx of mainly educated people and many new workers made California even richer, with California's universities becoming some of the better staffed in the world.
California and Alaska would enter the second world war against Fascist Russia and Socialist Germany in 1944, officially on the side of the allies, and both would grow heavily in the post-war boom. Victoria would become a extremely popular figure in world politics, seen as a symbol of stability and fashion. Her reign would be mostly peaceful, besides the second world war, and her abdication in 1987 was a very mourned affair, despite the Queen remaining alive. When asked her reason for her abdication, the Queen simply replied "I am a tired, old goat. Even old goats deserve some rest."
Victoria would marry Maximilian von Walbeck zu Pyrmont, the fourth son of an exiled German Duke. The couple would have over seven children, and the couple would stay closely together until Victoria's death in 2001. Her funeral was attended by more than 3000 foreign dignitaries.
(5) Born in 1932 to a world still in the throes of economic depression, Prince Alexander and his siblings were brought along on charity visits - a publicity event for the most part, but it succeeded in implanting a great sense of responsibility in Alexander, for he also heard a few people ask why they still needed the royal family. Too young to fight in the second world war, Alexander was nevertheless enrolled in the Californian navy at the age of sixteen, returning home after eight years to marry his third cousin, Princess Michaela, the eldest daughter of the deceased Prince Nicholas of Alaska. It was a match meant to reconcile the two branches of the royal family, though the
After that, Alexander was content to settle down to a quiet life. His years in the navy had given him an appreciation for alcohol and women (and men, some would later claim, though this was neither confirmed or denied), and though he remained loyal to Michaela, he started his own private vineyard, which eventually became its' own business - PrinzVinz. Alexander, of course, enjoyed his own product, but was shocked into sobriety by the death of his brother, William, in 1970, from drink-driving, for which the prince seems to have held himself partially responsible.
Thrust into the spotlight by his mother's surprise abdication in 1987, King Alexander II received a boost in popularity when he travelled to Santa Cruz to offer aid to the victims of the Loma Pieta earthquake. Otherwise, especially after 1991, he was content to stay out of politics and focus more on PrinzVinz. Then, after the New Year's celebrations on 2000, he surprised everyone by leaving his majority stockholdings to his eldest son, Nicholas, and then abdicated the throne. Many saw it as a cheap attempt to copy his mother's famous abdication, and when questioned, he said "Certainly society's elders should be respected, but we must also know when it is time to let the next generation have their turn. That's what my mother taught me, and that is what I intend to teach my son."
Alexander and Michaela retired to their private villa at Santa Barbara, and were greatly disappointed when Nicholas almost immediately pawned PrinzVinz off on to his younger brother (and presumed heir due to not having married), Prince Victor. Determined to keep his private life private, Alexander gave only two personal interviews before dying in 2015.
Waldemar of Prussia, Prince of California, b. 1817, r. (1846) to 1867, m. 1847, Grand Duchess Catherine Michaelovna (1827 to 1894)
1) William, Prince of California, b. 1848, r. 1867 to 1913, m. 1873, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853-1920)
a) William, Hereditary Prince of California, b. Early 1874, d. 1875
b) Nicholas, Hereditary Prince of California, b. Late 1874, d. 1892
c) Alexander I, Prince of California, b. 1875, r. 1913 to 1926, m. Grand Duchess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892 to 1981)
x) Victoria, Princess/Queen of California, b. 1912, r. 1926 to 2001, m. Maximillian of Waldeck and Pymont
x) Alexander II, King of California, b. 1932, r. 1937 to 2000, m. 1957 Princess Michaela of Alaska (b. 1935)
x) Nicholas, Hereditary Prince of California, b. 1958
x) Victor, Hereditary Prince of California, b. 1961
x) one other daughter after 1912
x) five other daughters .
2) Maryanne, Duchess Consort of Saxe Coburg Gotha, b. 1851, d. 1917, m. 1874, Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900)
x) has issue
3) Catherine, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel, b. 1855, d. 1921, m. 1875, Frederick William III, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1854-1888)
x) several children including William II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
4) Prince Michael, 1st Duke of Alaska, b. 1856, d. 1910, m. Caroline Mathilde of Holstein Gottorp
a) Nicholas, 2nd Duke / 1st Prince of Alaska, b. post 1878
x) has sons
5) Charlotte of California, Abbess of St. Michael's, b. 1857, d. 1937, never married, no issue
1) William, Prince of California, b. 1848, r. 1867 to 1913, m. 1873, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853-1920)
a) William, Hereditary Prince of California, b. Early 1874, d. 1875
b) Nicholas, Hereditary Prince of California, b. Late 1874, d. 1892
c) Alexander I, Prince of California, b. 1875, r. 1913 to 1926, m. Grand Duchess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892 to 1981)
x) Victoria, Princess/Queen of California, b. 1912, r. 1926 to 2001, m. Maximillian of Waldeck and Pymont
x) Alexander II, King of California, b. 1932, r. 1937 to 2000, m. 1957 Princess Michaela of Alaska (b. 1935)
x) Nicholas, Hereditary Prince of California, b. 1958
x) Victor, Hereditary Prince of California, b. 1961
x) one other daughter after 1912
x) five other daughters .
2) Maryanne, Duchess Consort of Saxe Coburg Gotha, b. 1851, d. 1917, m. 1874, Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900)
x) has issue
3) Catherine, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel, b. 1855, d. 1921, m. 1875, Frederick William III, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1854-1888)
x) several children including William II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
4) Prince Michael, 1st Duke of Alaska, b. 1856, d. 1910, m. Caroline Mathilde of Holstein Gottorp
a) Nicholas, 2nd Duke / 1st Prince of Alaska, b. post 1878
x) has sons
5) Charlotte of California, Abbess of St. Michael's, b. 1857, d. 1937, never married, no issue
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Excuse me? No, you've literally broken the rules by using two monarchs in one go.
If Alexander II abdicates in 2000, then there is another turn for someone else to take.
@TheBeanieBaron @Cate @Jonathan
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Sorry, I've edited the post now. God, I've been away from this forum too long.
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I rather think you should let someone else finish the line after the rule break.
What If ... the "California Republic" succeeded in 1846 and elected Waldemar of Prussia as monarch
Monarchs of California:
(1846) to 1867 : Waldemar I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (1)
1867-1913: William I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (2)
1913-1926: Alexander I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (3)
1926-1987: Victoria I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (4)
1987-2000: Alexander II (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma-Walbeck) (5)
2000-Present: Nicholas I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma-Walbeck) (6)
(1) By a miracle, the declaration of independence by the Calfornia Republic from Mexico on June 14th had succeeded. But the provisional government knew that the nation was vulnerable and needed protection from one of the major powers - not Mexico or Spain, nor America or Britain. And so they turned to the German states, and to Prussia.
Waldemar of Prussia, grandson of the King of Prussia, was known to travel. From the Mediterranean to South America and India, Waldemar had returned to Prussia in 1845 after the death of his friend in Punjab. This put him in Prussia when the request from William Ide came in for effective protectorate status. Frederick William IV was open to the request, but wanted a Prussian noble to be installed as head of state, although power would be retained by the provisional government. Few candidates wanted to volunteer - but Waldemar nominated himself and by the Summer of 1847, he arrived in Sonoma, the capital of the new state.
Waldemar was unmarried, and was encouraged to find a wife and have children and an invite went out to Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich that Waldemar, whose official style was undecided at that point, should marry Grand Duchess Catherine. This effectively gave California allies in Russia and Prussia, and the marriage was undertaken by proxy in 1847 before Catherine travelled to Sonoma.
The pair had five children from late 1848. The marriage solved the problem of Waldemars title, whilst the "Republic" had been quietly dropped and the nation simply known as California, all official noticed simply called him Prince Waldemar of Prussia.
One school of thought was that California establish itself a Grand Duchy, another that it create itself as a Principality and another that it reframe itself as the Kingdom of California. Russia and Prussia vetoed the latter, having no desire to have California acquire ideas above it's station - so it was eventually deemed a Sovereign Principality.
In 1861, California saw the American Civil War erupt. Despite initial inclinations to remain neutral, Waldemar influenced his government to officially side with the Union against the Confederate States, although any participation in actual conflict was limited, California was officially thanked by President Salmon Chase for their aide and upon Chase's assassination in 1865, Waldemar attended his funeral and met President Cassius Clay. This was Waldemar's first and only state visit as monarch of California, and led to Waldemar vowing he would have one of his eventual grandchildren named Salmon in honor of President Chase.
1867, Waldemar passed away at the age of forty to be succeeded as monarch of California by his eldest son, William.
View attachment 697610
(2) William Michael Frederick, was born in 1848, the oldest child to Prince Waldemar and Princess Catherine.
He enjoyed an excellent education and grew up in a happy household within Sonoma.
His father’s death came a few weeks after William’s eighteenth birthday and threw William onto the world stage.
One of the earliest events in his reign was the arrangement for purchasing the Russian territory of Alaska.
The purchase would see 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km2) of new territory to the Principality of California for the cost of ₽7 million.
For the best six years, William enjoyed seeing his Principality grow rich from the gold found on the Western Coast as well as in the territory of Alaska. This influx of gold would be invested in infrastructure as well as trading transportation such as trains and ships.
On 11th May 1873, William married the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, the second (and only surviving) daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his first wife Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, daughter of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Wilhelmine of Baden.
The marriage had been arranged between William, Alexander II and William’s mother, Princess Catherine Michaelovna.
Following his own marriage, William would find suitable husbands for his sisters. First would be Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria of Britain and Prince-Consort Albert, Alfred would later go onto inherit the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, from his childless uncle.
For his second sister he arranged the marriage to a distant cousin, Frederick William III, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, the eldest son of Frederick William George Adolph of Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim and his second wife Princess Anna of Prussia.
William and Maria would share 40 years of happy marriage and together have eight children.
In later years William would experience many first for monarchs, such as the first to drive a car, ride in a plane and star in a motion picture.
His death in 1913, was caused by cancer, after years of smoking. William was a massive supporter of California Golden Tobacco company, with the long dry season, together with irrigation, that gave the country the very best. conditions that are needed for the successful cultivation of the tobacco plant.
William was succeeded by his son, Alexander. He would be buried with in Sonoma Cathedral, alongside his father and mother.
(3) Born in 1875, the third, but eldest surviving son, of Prince William and Grand Duchess Marie. He did not marry until he was almost 35 when he married Grand Duchess Marina Petrovna, a second cousin, in line with the tradition that future rulers of California had to have a Russian spouse. Whilst there was an almost twenty year age difference, the relationship between the pair was reportedly happy and Marina produced two daughters, the eldest in 1912, and later survived her husband by fifty five years.
Alexander had a brief reign of thirteen years, passing when he was fifty one following a suspected heart attack. Given that Alexander only had daughters and surviving sisters, it raised the thorny question of Californian succession which had never been truly defined in the previous sixty years. It meant that upon his succession to the throne in 1913, Alexander's heir presumptive was his cousin, the second Duke of Alaska. This was certainly in line with both the Russian and Prussian influences on the House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma. But Alexander wished to appear progressive and in 1918, asked his Prime Minister, John Eshleman, and the Parliament of California to explore codifying the succession laws as male preference primogeniture, effectively allowing his daughters to inherit.
Ultimately in 1922, the legislation was ( passed, despite / rejected, due to) the opposition of the Duke of Alaska, who had been making his opinions clear since Alexander had first raised it. The legislation had taken so long to pass due to the Russian Revolution, and Alexander being instrumental in welcoming many of his Russian relatives to seek refuge in California, resulting in the creation of the City of New Moscow (where OTL Fontana was founded in 1913).
The arrival of so many Russian nobles arriving in California may have swayed the outcome of the legislation.
Thus in 1926, Alexander was succeeded in California by his eldest daughter and in Alaska by his cousin, Nicolas of Alaska.
(4) Born in 1912, Victoria of California was only fourteen when she succeeded her father. Her ascendancy to the throne was challenged by her cousin, Nicholas of Alaska, although the Californian Prime-Minister, Heinrich von Graf, who, as head of government, was responsible for the drafting of the new succession laws. To appease both sides, California and Alaska were divided - With Victoria becoming the official new "Queen" of the elevated Californian Kingdom while Nicholas become the new Grand Prince of Alaska. The division of the two states was rather friendly, despite the earlier enmities, and the two countries would walk hand in hand into a dangerous new world.
The rise of the American Progressive party, a heavily-nationalistic party that sought to reinforce America's standing in the world and assure American hegemony over the American continent, was seen with very bad eyes in California. President Henderson's claims that America had "some rights of oversight" over California's interior regions, who had been a center of American immigration, were seen with very bad eyes in Sonoma, and thus, both Alaska and California would enter a period of cultural, political and military consolidation that would separate both states from the American sphere of influence.
In California, the drafting of a new constitution that was signed to law by Victoria when she became eighteen, forcibly separated the nation from both the Anglo and Hispano-sphere. California, due to having German monarchs, had naturally attracted a lot of Swiss, German and Austria immigration, and despite California's very diverse populace, ranging Russians to Frenchmen, German speakers presented a small majority of 53%, and so, German was made the official language of California, making California the first German speaking country outside of Europe (Alaska also officially adopted Russian as it's official language, due to the very large presence of Russians in the land, and the Savinkov's regime extremism saw even more Russian-speakers coming in). California, (that was very rich by this point) up-turned it's educational and military policy, and the aftermath of WW1 and the Socialist revolution of 1926 in Germany, even more germans came in, especially exiled German royals. This influx of mainly educated people and many new workers made California even richer, with California's universities becoming some of the better staffed in the world.
California and Alaska would enter the second world war against Fascist Russia and Socialist Germany in 1944, officially on the side of the allies, and both would grow heavily in the post-war boom. Victoria would become a extremely popular figure in world politics, seen as a symbol of stability and fashion. Her reign would be mostly peaceful, besides the second world war, and her abdication in 1987 was a very mourned affair, despite the Queen remaining alive. When asked her reason for her abdication, the Queen simply replied "I am a tired, old goat. Even old goats deserve some rest."
Victoria would marry Maximilian von Walbeck zu Pyrmont, the fourth son of an exiled German Duke. The couple would have over seven children, and the couple would stay closely together until Victoria's death in 2001. Her funeral was attended by more than 3000 foreign dignitaries.
(5) Born in 1932 to a world still in the throes of economic depression, Prince Alexander and his siblings were brought along on charity visits - a publicity event for the most part, but it succeeded in implanting a great sense of responsibility in Alexander, for he also heard a few people ask why they still needed the royal family. Too young to fight in the second world war, Alexander was nevertheless enrolled in the Californian navy at the age of sixteen, returning home after eight years to marry his third cousin, Princess Michaela, the eldest daughter of the deceased Prince Nicholas of Alaska. It was a match meant to reconcile the two branches of the royal family, though the
After that, Alexander was content to settle down to a quiet life. His years in the navy had given him an appreciation for alcohol and women (and men, some would later claim, though this was neither confirmed or denied), and though he remained loyal to Michaela, he started his own private vineyard, which eventually became its' own business - PrinzVinz. Alexander, of course, enjoyed his own product, but was shocked into sobriety by the death of his brother, William, in 1970, from drink-driving, for which the prince seems to have held himself partially responsible.
Thrust into the spotlight by his mother's surprise abdication in 1987, King Alexander II received a boost in popularity when he traveled to Santa Cruz to offer aid to the victims of the Loma Pieta earthquake. Otherwise, especially after 1991, he was content to stay out of politics and focus more on PrinzVinz. Then, after the New Year's celebrations on 2000, he surprised everyone by leaving his majority stockholdings to his eldest son, Nicholas. When questioned, he said "Certainly society's elders should be respected, but we must also know when it is time to let the next generation have their turn. That's what my mother taught me, and that is what I intend to teach my son."
Alexander was greatly disappointed Nicholas almost immediately pawned PrinzVinz off on to his younger brother (and presumed heir due to not having married), Prince Victor. Determined to keep his private life private, Alexander has only gave two personal interviews.
[6] Nicholas was his father's opposite in many ways. He enjoyed partying and goofing off leaving his work in the hands of others, including his brother, Daniel. However, his lack of work ethic, he was an affable man who was known to make friends instead of enemies. It should be noted that for all his lack of statecraft, he was an activist and often did charity work personally.
In 2003, Nicholas would come out as gay. This of course sparked controversy, death threats and calls for him to be disposed. His family supported him, even his father spoke out openly, praising his son for his courage. In 2007, Nicholas would finally get married----to his longtime suspected lover, Marcus Rodríguez----the first ever royal gay marriage.
Although the couple faced many criticism, including instance that Nicholas was failing his family by not having any heirs despite his younger brothers have seven heirs total, securing the succession, they remained happy in love.
With his brother and heir, Daniel's death, due to covid, Nicholas has declared he will abdicate in five years time for his oldest niece.
Waldemar of Prussia, Prince of California, b. 1817, r. (1846) to 1867, m. 1847, Grand Duchess Catherine Michaelovna (1827 to 1894)
1) William, Prince of California, b. 1848, r. 1867 to 1913, m. 1873, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853-1920)
a) William, Hereditary Prince of California, b. Early 1874, d. 1875
b) Nicholas, Hereditary Prince of California, b. Late 1874, d. 1892
c) Alexander I, Prince of California, b. 1875, r. 1913 to 1926, m. Grand Duchess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892 to 1981)
x) Victoria, Princess/Queen of California, b. 1912, r. 1926 to 2001, m. Maximillian of Waldeck and Pymont
x) Alexander II, King of California, b. 1932, r. 1937 to present day, m. 1957 Princess Michaela of Alaska (b. 1935)
x) Nicholas, Hereditary Prince of California, b. 1958
x) Victor, Hereditary Prince of California, b. 1961
x) one other daughter after 1912
x) five other daughters .
2) Maryanne, Duchess Consort of Saxe Coburg Gotha, b. 1851, d. 1917, m. 1874, Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900)
x) has issue
3) Catherine, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel, b. 1855, d. 1921, m. 1875, Frederick William III, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1854-1888)
x) several children including William II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
4) Prince Michael, 1st Duke of Alaska, b. 1856, d. 1910, m. Caroline Mathilde of Holstein Gottorp
a) Nicholas, 2nd Duke / 1st Prince of Alaska, b. post 1878
x) has sons
5) Charlotte of California, Abbess of St. Michael's, b. 1857, d. 1937, never married, no issue
Monarchs of California:
(1846) to 1867 : Waldemar I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (1)
1867-1913: William I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (2)
1913-1926: Alexander I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (3)
1926-1987: Victoria I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma) (4)
1987-2000: Alexander II (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma-Walbeck) (5)
2000-Present: Nicholas I (House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma-Walbeck) (6)
(1) By a miracle, the declaration of independence by the Calfornia Republic from Mexico on June 14th had succeeded. But the provisional government knew that the nation was vulnerable and needed protection from one of the major powers - not Mexico or Spain, nor America or Britain. And so they turned to the German states, and to Prussia.
Waldemar of Prussia, grandson of the King of Prussia, was known to travel. From the Mediterranean to South America and India, Waldemar had returned to Prussia in 1845 after the death of his friend in Punjab. This put him in Prussia when the request from William Ide came in for effective protectorate status. Frederick William IV was open to the request, but wanted a Prussian noble to be installed as head of state, although power would be retained by the provisional government. Few candidates wanted to volunteer - but Waldemar nominated himself and by the Summer of 1847, he arrived in Sonoma, the capital of the new state.
Waldemar was unmarried, and was encouraged to find a wife and have children and an invite went out to Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich that Waldemar, whose official style was undecided at that point, should marry Grand Duchess Catherine. This effectively gave California allies in Russia and Prussia, and the marriage was undertaken by proxy in 1847 before Catherine travelled to Sonoma.
The pair had five children from late 1848. The marriage solved the problem of Waldemars title, whilst the "Republic" had been quietly dropped and the nation simply known as California, all official noticed simply called him Prince Waldemar of Prussia.
One school of thought was that California establish itself a Grand Duchy, another that it create itself as a Principality and another that it reframe itself as the Kingdom of California. Russia and Prussia vetoed the latter, having no desire to have California acquire ideas above it's station - so it was eventually deemed a Sovereign Principality.
In 1861, California saw the American Civil War erupt. Despite initial inclinations to remain neutral, Waldemar influenced his government to officially side with the Union against the Confederate States, although any participation in actual conflict was limited, California was officially thanked by President Salmon Chase for their aide and upon Chase's assassination in 1865, Waldemar attended his funeral and met President Cassius Clay. This was Waldemar's first and only state visit as monarch of California, and led to Waldemar vowing he would have one of his eventual grandchildren named Salmon in honor of President Chase.
1867, Waldemar passed away at the age of forty to be succeeded as monarch of California by his eldest son, William.
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(2) William Michael Frederick, was born in 1848, the oldest child to Prince Waldemar and Princess Catherine.
He enjoyed an excellent education and grew up in a happy household within Sonoma.
His father’s death came a few weeks after William’s eighteenth birthday and threw William onto the world stage.
One of the earliest events in his reign was the arrangement for purchasing the Russian territory of Alaska.
The purchase would see 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km2) of new territory to the Principality of California for the cost of ₽7 million.
For the best six years, William enjoyed seeing his Principality grow rich from the gold found on the Western Coast as well as in the territory of Alaska. This influx of gold would be invested in infrastructure as well as trading transportation such as trains and ships.
On 11th May 1873, William married the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, the second (and only surviving) daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his first wife Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, daughter of Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Wilhelmine of Baden.
The marriage had been arranged between William, Alexander II and William’s mother, Princess Catherine Michaelovna.
Following his own marriage, William would find suitable husbands for his sisters. First would be Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria of Britain and Prince-Consort Albert, Alfred would later go onto inherit the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, from his childless uncle.
For his second sister he arranged the marriage to a distant cousin, Frederick William III, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, the eldest son of Frederick William George Adolph of Hesse-Kassel-Rumpenheim and his second wife Princess Anna of Prussia.
William and Maria would share 40 years of happy marriage and together have eight children.
In later years William would experience many first for monarchs, such as the first to drive a car, ride in a plane and star in a motion picture.
His death in 1913, was caused by cancer, after years of smoking. William was a massive supporter of California Golden Tobacco company, with the long dry season, together with irrigation, that gave the country the very best. conditions that are needed for the successful cultivation of the tobacco plant.
William was succeeded by his son, Alexander. He would be buried with in Sonoma Cathedral, alongside his father and mother.
(3) Born in 1875, the third, but eldest surviving son, of Prince William and Grand Duchess Marie. He did not marry until he was almost 35 when he married Grand Duchess Marina Petrovna, a second cousin, in line with the tradition that future rulers of California had to have a Russian spouse. Whilst there was an almost twenty year age difference, the relationship between the pair was reportedly happy and Marina produced two daughters, the eldest in 1912, and later survived her husband by fifty five years.
Alexander had a brief reign of thirteen years, passing when he was fifty one following a suspected heart attack. Given that Alexander only had daughters and surviving sisters, it raised the thorny question of Californian succession which had never been truly defined in the previous sixty years. It meant that upon his succession to the throne in 1913, Alexander's heir presumptive was his cousin, the second Duke of Alaska. This was certainly in line with both the Russian and Prussian influences on the House of Hohenzollern-Sonoma. But Alexander wished to appear progressive and in 1918, asked his Prime Minister, John Eshleman, and the Parliament of California to explore codifying the succession laws as male preference primogeniture, effectively allowing his daughters to inherit.
Ultimately in 1922, the legislation was ( passed, despite / rejected, due to) the opposition of the Duke of Alaska, who had been making his opinions clear since Alexander had first raised it. The legislation had taken so long to pass due to the Russian Revolution, and Alexander being instrumental in welcoming many of his Russian relatives to seek refuge in California, resulting in the creation of the City of New Moscow (where OTL Fontana was founded in 1913).
The arrival of so many Russian nobles arriving in California may have swayed the outcome of the legislation.
Thus in 1926, Alexander was succeeded in California by his eldest daughter and in Alaska by his cousin, Nicolas of Alaska.
(4) Born in 1912, Victoria of California was only fourteen when she succeeded her father. Her ascendancy to the throne was challenged by her cousin, Nicholas of Alaska, although the Californian Prime-Minister, Heinrich von Graf, who, as head of government, was responsible for the drafting of the new succession laws. To appease both sides, California and Alaska were divided - With Victoria becoming the official new "Queen" of the elevated Californian Kingdom while Nicholas become the new Grand Prince of Alaska. The division of the two states was rather friendly, despite the earlier enmities, and the two countries would walk hand in hand into a dangerous new world.
The rise of the American Progressive party, a heavily-nationalistic party that sought to reinforce America's standing in the world and assure American hegemony over the American continent, was seen with very bad eyes in California. President Henderson's claims that America had "some rights of oversight" over California's interior regions, who had been a center of American immigration, were seen with very bad eyes in Sonoma, and thus, both Alaska and California would enter a period of cultural, political and military consolidation that would separate both states from the American sphere of influence.
In California, the drafting of a new constitution that was signed to law by Victoria when she became eighteen, forcibly separated the nation from both the Anglo and Hispano-sphere. California, due to having German monarchs, had naturally attracted a lot of Swiss, German and Austria immigration, and despite California's very diverse populace, ranging Russians to Frenchmen, German speakers presented a small majority of 53%, and so, German was made the official language of California, making California the first German speaking country outside of Europe (Alaska also officially adopted Russian as it's official language, due to the very large presence of Russians in the land, and the Savinkov's regime extremism saw even more Russian-speakers coming in). California, (that was very rich by this point) up-turned it's educational and military policy, and the aftermath of WW1 and the Socialist revolution of 1926 in Germany, even more germans came in, especially exiled German royals. This influx of mainly educated people and many new workers made California even richer, with California's universities becoming some of the better staffed in the world.
California and Alaska would enter the second world war against Fascist Russia and Socialist Germany in 1944, officially on the side of the allies, and both would grow heavily in the post-war boom. Victoria would become a extremely popular figure in world politics, seen as a symbol of stability and fashion. Her reign would be mostly peaceful, besides the second world war, and her abdication in 1987 was a very mourned affair, despite the Queen remaining alive. When asked her reason for her abdication, the Queen simply replied "I am a tired, old goat. Even old goats deserve some rest."
Victoria would marry Maximilian von Walbeck zu Pyrmont, the fourth son of an exiled German Duke. The couple would have over seven children, and the couple would stay closely together until Victoria's death in 2001. Her funeral was attended by more than 3000 foreign dignitaries.
(5) Born in 1932 to a world still in the throes of economic depression, Prince Alexander and his siblings were brought along on charity visits - a publicity event for the most part, but it succeeded in implanting a great sense of responsibility in Alexander, for he also heard a few people ask why they still needed the royal family. Too young to fight in the second world war, Alexander was nevertheless enrolled in the Californian navy at the age of sixteen, returning home after eight years to marry his third cousin, Princess Michaela, the eldest daughter of the deceased Prince Nicholas of Alaska. It was a match meant to reconcile the two branches of the royal family, though the
After that, Alexander was content to settle down to a quiet life. His years in the navy had given him an appreciation for alcohol and women (and men, some would later claim, though this was neither confirmed or denied), and though he remained loyal to Michaela, he started his own private vineyard, which eventually became its' own business - PrinzVinz. Alexander, of course, enjoyed his own product, but was shocked into sobriety by the death of his brother, William, in 1970, from drink-driving, for which the prince seems to have held himself partially responsible.
Thrust into the spotlight by his mother's surprise abdication in 1987, King Alexander II received a boost in popularity when he traveled to Santa Cruz to offer aid to the victims of the Loma Pieta earthquake. Otherwise, especially after 1991, he was content to stay out of politics and focus more on PrinzVinz. Then, after the New Year's celebrations on 2000, he surprised everyone by leaving his majority stockholdings to his eldest son, Nicholas. When questioned, he said "Certainly society's elders should be respected, but we must also know when it is time to let the next generation have their turn. That's what my mother taught me, and that is what I intend to teach my son."
Alexander was greatly disappointed Nicholas almost immediately pawned PrinzVinz off on to his younger brother (and presumed heir due to not having married), Prince Victor. Determined to keep his private life private, Alexander has only gave two personal interviews.
[6] Nicholas was his father's opposite in many ways. He enjoyed partying and goofing off leaving his work in the hands of others, including his brother, Daniel. However, his lack of work ethic, he was an affable man who was known to make friends instead of enemies. It should be noted that for all his lack of statecraft, he was an activist and often did charity work personally.
In 2003, Nicholas would come out as gay. This of course sparked controversy, death threats and calls for him to be disposed. His family supported him, even his father spoke out openly, praising his son for his courage. In 2007, Nicholas would finally get married----to his longtime suspected lover, Marcus Rodríguez----the first ever royal gay marriage.
Although the couple faced many criticism, including instance that Nicholas was failing his family by not having any heirs despite his younger brothers have seven heirs total, securing the succession, they remained happy in love.
With his brother and heir, Daniel's death, due to covid, Nicholas has declared he will abdicate in five years time for his oldest niece.
Waldemar of Prussia, Prince of California, b. 1817, r. (1846) to 1867, m. 1847, Grand Duchess Catherine Michaelovna (1827 to 1894)
1) William, Prince of California, b. 1848, r. 1867 to 1913, m. 1873, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853-1920)
a) William, Hereditary Prince of California, b. Early 1874, d. 1875
b) Nicholas, Hereditary Prince of California, b. Late 1874, d. 1892
c) Alexander I, Prince of California, b. 1875, r. 1913 to 1926, m. Grand Duchess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892 to 1981)
x) Victoria, Princess/Queen of California, b. 1912, r. 1926 to 2001, m. Maximillian of Waldeck and Pymont
x) Alexander II, King of California, b. 1932, r. 1937 to present day, m. 1957 Princess Michaela of Alaska (b. 1935)
x) Nicholas, Hereditary Prince of California, b. 1958
x) Victor, Hereditary Prince of California, b. 1961
x) one other daughter after 1912
x) five other daughters .
2) Maryanne, Duchess Consort of Saxe Coburg Gotha, b. 1851, d. 1917, m. 1874, Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900)
x) has issue
3) Catherine, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel, b. 1855, d. 1921, m. 1875, Frederick William III, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1854-1888)
x) several children including William II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
4) Prince Michael, 1st Duke of Alaska, b. 1856, d. 1910, m. Caroline Mathilde of Holstein Gottorp
a) Nicholas, 2nd Duke / 1st Prince of Alaska, b. post 1878
x) has sons
5) Charlotte of California, Abbess of St. Michael's, b. 1857, d. 1937, never married, no issue
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Well put. Full support on this.
No worries. Thanks for apologising and rectifying your post. That does seem a great list and hopefully one we could pick up at a later date.
Thanks. Sorry about the mess. I think I'll wait a while, let this all blow over.
We’ve all made mistakes, including myself. No point holding off especially as you will bring a unique idea to the story.
If we had the same people writing their same ideas we might as well just copy and paste the stories.
Please feel free to claim a turn at your earliest convenience and add your single monarch to the list.
All the best and any parties we are a good community that wish to help out others to succeed because when one member succeeds ww all do.
Will do. For now, though, I think Violet Lily Rose has first pick since she finished the current list.
Yep so once the list is up, anyone can claim, just make sure not to ninja the claim or even the post.
POD: Anne Boleyn does not miscarry her son.
Kings of England
1509-1547 Henry VIII (House of Tudor)
1547-1569 Henry IX "the Scarred" (House of Tudor) [1]
[1] King Henry's birth was seen nothing short of miracle for the Boleyn faction. Their power was slipping, the king was growing tired of Queen Anne, his patience at a low ebb and his sights on the blonde Jane Seymour. It is easy to image that on June 1 (three years after Queen Anne's coronation) when the midwife announced the birth of a hale and healthy boy, they was a collective sigh of relief among Anne's relatives.
Although, this did little to repair the royal marriage, Prince Henry, Duke of Cornwall was seen as proof that God favored them. The former Princess Mary would later state she was glad that her mother had died before the birth of her half-brother as this would have broken her heart. Mary Tudor would spend a year in the tower because of her refusal to recognize her half siblings as anything but bastard. When the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out and there were rumors of putting her on the throne, her allies begged her to sign the oath, fearing she would die either by the execution blade or by assassination. In 1538, Mary relented and was quickly sent to Denmark to marry the younger brother of King Christian.
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Henry would be joined by _____born in 1539 and____in 1542. Princess Elizabeth often acted as a mother to her younger siblings, protecting them from the tumultuous marriage of their parents espically with the rumors swirling around the court that Queen Anne had been unfaithful (considering how all four children had clear Tudor traits, it was clear this was merely a tactics by her enemies in hopes of discrediting her). Ironically, despite his lack of love for his wife, King Henry would punish whoever dared to spread these rumors, mostly because he refused to believe his precious heir was anyone but his.
King Henry was determined that his son would get the best of everything, including a wife. Mary of Scots was his top choice as she was King James' heir and eventual successor. Unfortunately, the Rough Wooing as it is called, was a failure and Thomas Cromwell suggested that they ally with the Lutherans princes of Germany, suggesting Barbara of Hesse, daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. Barbara was born in April 1536 so just three months older than Henry.
At first, the temperamental monarch refused, believing that his son deserved no less than a princess. However, the rumors of Anne's infidelity, not mention the persistent belief that Henry and his siblings were illegitimate made the Catholic monarchs leery of marrying their princesses to the Prince of Wales.
At last, Cromwell and the Duke of Kent (Thomas Boleyn) found another candidate, Katrina Vasa of Sweden, only three years younger than Henry.
King Henry died in 1547 and his son, Henry rose to the throne at just ten-years-old. His mother, having grown wiser over the years, retired from court, not wanting the vile slander thrown at her, hit her son. She left his regency in her father and then later, her brother's capable hands.
Henry IX was a bold and brash boy, arrogant and entitled. The only person who could truly control him, other than his mother, was his sister, Elizabeth. Unfortunately, she was sent to France to marry Charles Valois, Duke of Orléans in 1551.
Much like his father, Henry left the reigns of statecraft in the hands of his privy council as he partook in other activities such as sports, drinks and women. His only saving grace was he was not a spendthrift. In fact, popular legend was that he blanched when he saw how much debt his father had caused, giving his council leave to do whatever they could to bring England's economy back in shape.
In 1554, Katrina of Sweden arrived in England. Although she was less than impressed with her groom's personality, Katrina proved to a diligent queen, setting up trading routes with Sweden, Denmark and Russia. She also coaxed her husband into making ventures into the new world. Henry and Katrina would have five surviving children.
In 1563, a smallpox epidemic would hit the kingdom hard with King Henry being one of the many victims. He would emerged from his illness, sickly, scarred and blind in one eye. One of his friends wrote in a letter that when the young monarch caught a glimpse of his reflection, he wept and declared it God's punishment for his arrogance.
He fell into a deep depression that only Katrina could help pull him out of. Just when it seemed like he was on the bend, he learned that his mother, the queen dowager had died. This sent him into a downward spiral until he died in 1569, just weeks before the Catholic uprising of the North. He was succeeded by_____
Kings of England
1509-1547 Henry VIII (House of Tudor)
1547-1569 Henry IX "the Scarred" (House of Tudor) [1]
[1] King Henry's birth was seen nothing short of miracle for the Boleyn faction. Their power was slipping, the king was growing tired of Queen Anne, his patience at a low ebb and his sights on the blonde Jane Seymour. It is easy to image that on June 1 (three years after Queen Anne's coronation) when the midwife announced the birth of a hale and healthy boy, they was a collective sigh of relief among Anne's relatives.
Although, this did little to repair the royal marriage, Prince Henry, Duke of Cornwall was seen as proof that God favored them. The former Princess Mary would later state she was glad that her mother had died before the birth of her half-brother as this would have broken her heart. Mary Tudor would spend a year in the tower because of her refusal to recognize her half siblings as anything but bastard. When the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out and there were rumors of putting her on the throne, her allies begged her to sign the oath, fearing she would die either by the execution blade or by assassination. In 1538, Mary relented and was quickly sent to Denmark to marry the younger brother of King Christian.
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Henry would be joined by _____born in 1539 and____in 1542. Princess Elizabeth often acted as a mother to her younger siblings, protecting them from the tumultuous marriage of their parents espically with the rumors swirling around the court that Queen Anne had been unfaithful (considering how all four children had clear Tudor traits, it was clear this was merely a tactics by her enemies in hopes of discrediting her). Ironically, despite his lack of love for his wife, King Henry would punish whoever dared to spread these rumors, mostly because he refused to believe his precious heir was anyone but his.
King Henry was determined that his son would get the best of everything, including a wife. Mary of Scots was his top choice as she was King James' heir and eventual successor. Unfortunately, the Rough Wooing as it is called, was a failure and Thomas Cromwell suggested that they ally with the Lutherans princes of Germany, suggesting Barbara of Hesse, daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. Barbara was born in April 1536 so just three months older than Henry.
At first, the temperamental monarch refused, believing that his son deserved no less than a princess. However, the rumors of Anne's infidelity, not mention the persistent belief that Henry and his siblings were illegitimate made the Catholic monarchs leery of marrying their princesses to the Prince of Wales.
At last, Cromwell and the Duke of Kent (Thomas Boleyn) found another candidate, Katrina Vasa of Sweden, only three years younger than Henry.
King Henry died in 1547 and his son, Henry rose to the throne at just ten-years-old. His mother, having grown wiser over the years, retired from court, not wanting the vile slander thrown at her, hit her son. She left his regency in her father and then later, her brother's capable hands.
Henry IX was a bold and brash boy, arrogant and entitled. The only person who could truly control him, other than his mother, was his sister, Elizabeth. Unfortunately, she was sent to France to marry Charles Valois, Duke of Orléans in 1551.
Much like his father, Henry left the reigns of statecraft in the hands of his privy council as he partook in other activities such as sports, drinks and women. His only saving grace was he was not a spendthrift. In fact, popular legend was that he blanched when he saw how much debt his father had caused, giving his council leave to do whatever they could to bring England's economy back in shape.
In 1554, Katrina of Sweden arrived in England. Although she was less than impressed with her groom's personality, Katrina proved to a diligent queen, setting up trading routes with Sweden, Denmark and Russia. She also coaxed her husband into making ventures into the new world. Henry and Katrina would have five surviving children.
In 1563, a smallpox epidemic would hit the kingdom hard with King Henry being one of the many victims. He would emerged from his illness, sickly, scarred and blind in one eye. One of his friends wrote in a letter that when the young monarch caught a glimpse of his reflection, he wept and declared it God's punishment for his arrogance.
He fell into a deep depression that only Katrina could help pull him out of. Just when it seemed like he was on the bend, he learned that his mother, the queen dowager had died. This sent him into a downward spiral until he died in 1569, just weeks before the Catholic uprising of the North. He was succeeded by_____
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To be clear, Henry was born in June 1536 because his father died in January of 1547, he was not yet eleven. Also, Elizabeth married the surviving Charles, son of Francois I. I love the fact that you named him George.
I take it, this is a slip of the tounge and not to imply his father is someone other than Henry VIII as well as the rumour that he is the son of her brother, George.
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I beg to differ, and I hadn't seen @wwbgdiaslt naming a Tudor princeling "George."
POD: Anne Boleyn does not miscarry her son.
Kings of England
1509-1547 : Henry VIII (House of Tudor)
1547-1569 : Henry IX "the Scarred" (House of Tudor) [1]
1569-1598 : George I (House of Tudor) [2]
[1] King Henry's birth was seen nothing short of miracle for the Boleyn faction. Their power was slipping, the king was growing tired of Queen Anne, his patience at a low ebb and his sights on the blonde Jane Seymour. It is easy to image that on June 1 (three years after Queen Anne's coronation) when the midwife announced the birth of a hale and healthy boy, they was a collective sigh of relief among Anne's relatives.
Although, this did little to repair the royal marriage, Prince Henry, Duke of Cornwall was seen as proof that God favored them. The former Princess Mary would later state she was glad that her mother had died before the birth of her half-brother as this would have broken her heart. Mary Tudor would spend a year in the tower because of her refusal to recognize her half siblings as anything but bastard. When the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out and there were rumors of putting her on the throne, her allies begged her to sign the oath, fearing she would die either by the execution blade or by assassination. In 1538, Mary relented and was quickly sent to Denmark to marry the younger brother of King Christian.
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Henry would be joined by _____born in 1539 and____in 1542. Princess Elizabeth often acted as a mother to her younger siblings, protecting them from the tumultuous marriage of their parents espically with the rumors swirling around the court that Queen Anne had been unfaithful (considering how all four children had clear Tudor traits, it was clear this was merely a tactics by her enemies in hopes of discrediting her). Ironically, despite his lack of love for his wife, King Henry would punish whoever dared to spread these rumors, mostly because he refused to believe his precious heir was anyone but his.
King Henry was determined that his son would get the best of everything, including a wife. Mary of Scots was his top choice as she was King James' heir and eventual successor. Unfortunately, the Rough Wooing as it is called, was a failure and Thomas Cromwell suggested that they ally with the Lutherans princes of Germany, suggesting Barbara of Hesse, daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. Barbara was born in April 1536 so just three months older than Henry.
At first, the temperamental monarch refused, believing that his son deserved no less than a princess. However, the rumors of Anne's infidelity, not mention the persistent belief that Henry and his siblings were illegitimate made the Catholic monarchs leery of marrying their princesses to the Prince of Wales.
At last, Cromwell and the Duke of Kent (Thomas Boleyn) found another candidate, Katrina Vasa of Sweden, only three years younger than Henry.
King Henry died in 1547 and his son, Henry rose to the throne at just ten-years-old. His mother, having grown wiser over the years, retired from court, not wanting the vile slander thrown at her, hit her son. She left his regency in his father and then later, her brother's capable hands.
Henry IX was a bold and brash boy, arrogant and entitled. The only person who could truly control him, other than his mother, was his sister, Elizabeth. Unfortunately, she was sent to France to marry Charles Valois, Duke of Orléans in 1551.
Much like his father, Henry left the reigns of statecraft in the hands of his privy council as he partook in other activities such as sports, drinks and women. His only saving grace was he was not a spendthrift. In fact, popular legend was that he blanched when he saw how much debt his father had caused, giving his council leave to do whatever they could to bring England's economy back in shape.
In 1554, Katrina of Sweden arrived in England. Although she was less than impressed with her groom's personality, Katrina proved to a diligent queen, setting up trading routes with Sweden, Denmark and Russia. She also coaxed her husband into making ventures into the new world. Henry and Katrina would have five surviving children.
In 1563, a smallpox epidemic would hit the kingdom hard with King Henry being one of the many victims. He would emerged from his illness, sickly, scarred and blind in one eye. One of his friends wrote in a letter that when the young monarch caught a glimpse of his reflection, he wept and declared it God's punishment for his arrogance.
He fell into a deep depression that only Katrina could help pull him out of. Just when it seemed like he was on the bend, he learned that his mother, the queen dowager had died. This sent him into a downward spiral until he died in 1569, just weeks before the Catholic uprising of the North. He was succeeded by_____
(2) George was born in 1558, named after his paternal great uncle, and became King at the age of only eleven. He was raised under a regency headed by his uncles, the Duke of York, and the Duke of Somerset, and a marriage arranged to Sibylle of Saxony. By the time he reached majority, the Catholic Uprising in the North had been mostly diffused, with the establishment of the Free City of Durham, roughly inspired by the Free City of Bremen in the Holy Roman Empire. It was a semi autonomous region, overseen by a representative of the crown but in which neither protestantisn and catholicism were suppressed.
George would later appoint his youngest brother, John, Duke of Westminster, as Governor of the Free City of Durham on his thirtieth birthday in 1595, only four years prior to George's death.
George and Sibylle only had two children (from 1576), but they were given a good education and they were greatly loved. However, George was widowed in 1586 and firmly insisted on not marrying again. He had two healthy children, he had cousins, and they had children of their own - the crown was secure under Tudor lineage.
During his reign, England clashed with both Spain and Scotland. Margaret, Queen or Scots, cited popular gossip that the children of Anne Boleyn were illegitimate and the unquestionably legitimate daughter of Mary Tudor, Johanna of Schleswig Holstein Haderslev, had died in childbirth shortly after her twenty first birthday in 1575.
Margaret made her claim to England through her mother, Mary, and her great grandmother, Margaret Tudor (sister of Henry VIII) and tried to motivate Spain to fight on their side. Spain, somewhat mollified by the creation of the Free City of Durham and George's somewhat liberal belief in freedom of religious practice, were hesitant but her marriage to Caspar of Spain, son of Phillip II, forced Spain's hand and they agreed to launch a fleet to invade England.
The resultant battle was celebrated in Marlowe's "King George the First" in which it embellished George's speech to his forces, and is often cited as the origin of the phrase, "Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough". Spain was soundly beaten and would not bow to further Scottish demands for some time. Rather than win herself a Kingdom, Margaret had earned herself an enemy and this led to the estrangement of herself and her husband.
George died in 1598 on his fortieth birthday and was succeeded by __________
Margaret, Queen Consort of Scots, b. 1489, d. 1541, m. James IV of Scotland, m2. Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, m3. Henry Stewart, Lord of Methven
Kings of England
1509-1547 : Henry VIII (House of Tudor)
1547-1569 : Henry IX "the Scarred" (House of Tudor) [1]
1569-1598 : George I (House of Tudor) [2]
[1] King Henry's birth was seen nothing short of miracle for the Boleyn faction. Their power was slipping, the king was growing tired of Queen Anne, his patience at a low ebb and his sights on the blonde Jane Seymour. It is easy to image that on June 1 (three years after Queen Anne's coronation) when the midwife announced the birth of a hale and healthy boy, they was a collective sigh of relief among Anne's relatives.
Although, this did little to repair the royal marriage, Prince Henry, Duke of Cornwall was seen as proof that God favored them. The former Princess Mary would later state she was glad that her mother had died before the birth of her half-brother as this would have broken her heart. Mary Tudor would spend a year in the tower because of her refusal to recognize her half siblings as anything but bastard. When the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out and there were rumors of putting her on the throne, her allies begged her to sign the oath, fearing she would die either by the execution blade or by assassination. In 1538, Mary relented and was quickly sent to Denmark to marry the younger brother of King Christian.
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Henry would be joined by _____born in 1539 and____in 1542. Princess Elizabeth often acted as a mother to her younger siblings, protecting them from the tumultuous marriage of their parents espically with the rumors swirling around the court that Queen Anne had been unfaithful (considering how all four children had clear Tudor traits, it was clear this was merely a tactics by her enemies in hopes of discrediting her). Ironically, despite his lack of love for his wife, King Henry would punish whoever dared to spread these rumors, mostly because he refused to believe his precious heir was anyone but his.
King Henry was determined that his son would get the best of everything, including a wife. Mary of Scots was his top choice as she was King James' heir and eventual successor. Unfortunately, the Rough Wooing as it is called, was a failure and Thomas Cromwell suggested that they ally with the Lutherans princes of Germany, suggesting Barbara of Hesse, daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. Barbara was born in April 1536 so just three months older than Henry.
At first, the temperamental monarch refused, believing that his son deserved no less than a princess. However, the rumors of Anne's infidelity, not mention the persistent belief that Henry and his siblings were illegitimate made the Catholic monarchs leery of marrying their princesses to the Prince of Wales.
At last, Cromwell and the Duke of Kent (Thomas Boleyn) found another candidate, Katrina Vasa of Sweden, only three years younger than Henry.
King Henry died in 1547 and his son, Henry rose to the throne at just ten-years-old. His mother, having grown wiser over the years, retired from court, not wanting the vile slander thrown at her, hit her son. She left his regency in his father and then later, her brother's capable hands.
Henry IX was a bold and brash boy, arrogant and entitled. The only person who could truly control him, other than his mother, was his sister, Elizabeth. Unfortunately, she was sent to France to marry Charles Valois, Duke of Orléans in 1551.
Much like his father, Henry left the reigns of statecraft in the hands of his privy council as he partook in other activities such as sports, drinks and women. His only saving grace was he was not a spendthrift. In fact, popular legend was that he blanched when he saw how much debt his father had caused, giving his council leave to do whatever they could to bring England's economy back in shape.
In 1554, Katrina of Sweden arrived in England. Although she was less than impressed with her groom's personality, Katrina proved to a diligent queen, setting up trading routes with Sweden, Denmark and Russia. She also coaxed her husband into making ventures into the new world. Henry and Katrina would have five surviving children.
In 1563, a smallpox epidemic would hit the kingdom hard with King Henry being one of the many victims. He would emerged from his illness, sickly, scarred and blind in one eye. One of his friends wrote in a letter that when the young monarch caught a glimpse of his reflection, he wept and declared it God's punishment for his arrogance.
He fell into a deep depression that only Katrina could help pull him out of. Just when it seemed like he was on the bend, he learned that his mother, the queen dowager had died. This sent him into a downward spiral until he died in 1569, just weeks before the Catholic uprising of the North. He was succeeded by_____
(2) George was born in 1558, named after his paternal great uncle, and became King at the age of only eleven. He was raised under a regency headed by his uncles, the Duke of York, and the Duke of Somerset, and a marriage arranged to Sibylle of Saxony. By the time he reached majority, the Catholic Uprising in the North had been mostly diffused, with the establishment of the Free City of Durham, roughly inspired by the Free City of Bremen in the Holy Roman Empire. It was a semi autonomous region, overseen by a representative of the crown but in which neither protestantisn and catholicism were suppressed.
George would later appoint his youngest brother, John, Duke of Westminster, as Governor of the Free City of Durham on his thirtieth birthday in 1595, only four years prior to George's death.
George and Sibylle only had two children (from 1576), but they were given a good education and they were greatly loved. However, George was widowed in 1586 and firmly insisted on not marrying again. He had two healthy children, he had cousins, and they had children of their own - the crown was secure under Tudor lineage.
During his reign, England clashed with both Spain and Scotland. Margaret, Queen or Scots, cited popular gossip that the children of Anne Boleyn were illegitimate and the unquestionably legitimate daughter of Mary Tudor, Johanna of Schleswig Holstein Haderslev, had died in childbirth shortly after her twenty first birthday in 1575.
Margaret made her claim to England through her mother, Mary, and her great grandmother, Margaret Tudor (sister of Henry VIII) and tried to motivate Spain to fight on their side. Spain, somewhat mollified by the creation of the Free City of Durham and George's somewhat liberal belief in freedom of religious practice, were hesitant but her marriage to Caspar of Spain, son of Phillip II, forced Spain's hand and they agreed to launch a fleet to invade England.
The resultant battle was celebrated in Marlowe's "King George the First" in which it embellished George's speech to his forces, and is often cited as the origin of the phrase, "Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough". Spain was soundly beaten and would not bow to further Scottish demands for some time. Rather than win herself a Kingdom, Margaret had earned herself an enemy and this led to the estrangement of herself and her husband.
George died in 1598 on his fortieth birthday and was succeeded by __________
Margaret, Queen Consort of Scots, b. 1489, d. 1541, m. James IV of Scotland, m2. Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, m3. Henry Stewart, Lord of Methven
1a) James V of Scotland, b. 1512, d. 1542, m1. Madelaine of France, m2. Mary of Guise
2a) Mary, Queen of Scots, b. 1548, d. 1586, m1. Francis II of France, m2. Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
2a) Margaret, Queen of Scots, b. 1566, m. Infante Caspar of Spain
x) has children
Henry VIII of England, b. 1491, r. 1509 to 1547, m1. Catherine of Aragon (1485 to 1536), m2. Anne Boleyn (1501 to 1566)1a) Mary Tudor, b. 1516, d. 1558, m. John II, Duke of Schleswig Holstein Haderslev (1521 to 1580)
a) Johanna of Schleswig Holstein Haderslev, b. 1554, d. 1575, unnamed husband
2a) Elizabeth Tudor, b. 1533, m. Charles Valois, Duke of Orleans
2b) Henry IX of England, b. 1536, r. 1547 to 1569, m. Katrina Vasa of Sweden (1540 to 1XXX)
1) Henry, Prince of Wales, b. 1557, d. 1560
2) George I of England, prev. Duke of Gloucester, b. 1558, r. 1569 to 1598, m. Sibylle of Saxony (*) (1556 to 1586)
x) two children from 1576
3)
4)
5)
6) John, Duke of Westminster, Governor of the Free City of Durham, b. 1565
2c) Thomas, Duke of York, b. 1539
2d) Owen, Duke of Somerset, b. 1542
(*) a daughter of John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony, and Agnes of Hesse, and thus a great niece of Anne of Cleeves, she is named after her grandmother