List your most promising alternate monarchs

Margaret Maid of Norway.

Union of the Scottish and English crowns, three hundred years earlier, with an option on Norway as well for the future Edward III.
 
None of them were ever particularly close to the throne, but I would have loved to see one of the Dukes of Montezuma be Emperor of Mexico.
 
I'd also be interested in Friedrich III of Germany, or Isabel I of Brazil, liberator of the slaves, or HREmperor Konradin (the last Staufer heir), or queen Jane of England.

Isabel would be quite interesting if she had taken the throne earlier, around the 1870's, when Republicanism wasn't strong, but there was still slavery. Probably she would have a very troubled reign.
 
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Alternative Monarchs

William, Duke of Gloucester, son of Queen Anne. He is healthier and succeeds. Edward V of England, is not deposed. Edward of Lancaster, son of Henry VI of England, manages to secure the throne. James III of Cyprus, does not die in infancy. Baldwin V of Jersusalem, does not die in childhood.
 
John I of France, son of Louis X, born posthumously, died five days later, possibly at the hands of his aunt, who wanted her husband to be king, and this had MAJOR butterflies on the Salic Law and the Hundred Years War. I'm doing a timeline.
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I take it Eustace isn't a likely option? What kind of connotations does the name have in England? This is the only other Eustace I know:

Eustace Tilley is a character in the New Yorker Magazine.

Too bad they can't use more variety in names.
The younger son of Charles & Diana is Henry Charles Albert David, giving the possiblity of a King David.

No king Paul, Saul, Solomon, Jeremiah? King Adam, Enos, Enoch? Queen Eve, Sara, Ruth?

I wonder if they would accept a Richard or Charles in hopes that the new King Richard or Charles would restore a good connotation to the name, "cleaning up" the name, as it were?

So by that reasoning, a Queen Jezebel...? Nah. :D
 
How wellknown or popular is Oprah Winfrey outside the US? Is a royal named Oprah likely?

She was supposed to be named after a Biblical person named Orpah but the name was spelled wrong. And it seems like a strange choice. And/but Oprah seems more euphonius. And Oprah spelled backwards is Harpo.


King Harpo...? Nnnnnope. :D

I notice the British monarchs haven't been using Scottish names--Brian, Kenneth, etc. I wonder why?
 
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