PC/WI: Napoleon I of Spain?

What if, following the Spanish Revolution of 1868 (La Gloriosa), the Franco-Prussian war erupted earlier and Nappy III was deposed a year or two ahead of OTL? Could it be possible that, without the opportunity to try to intervene in Spanish politics in the wake of La Gloriosa and the Hohenzollern Candidature Controversy, Nappy III doesn't piss off the Spaniards? And as a result, the increasingly liberal and now deposed emperor of France becomes King of a Liberal Spanish Kingdom?

Is this plausible, or even possible; or does Spain's past experience with a Bonaparte negate any openness to the idea by the Spaniards? If it is possible, what kind of effect would Nappy III's (or rather, Nappy IV's; III was nearing the end of his days at this point) have on Spain, the Spanish colonial empire, and a potential Spanish-American War? What would this Spain's relations be with France/Germany/Britain/the US?
 
Unlikely with the possible exception of France itself no one has more reason to hate the Bonapartes than Spain. To call the penisular war unpleasent is a bit of an understatement. Most of the time the French were quite civilised during the wars, until Spain when they desended to Nazi levels of tactics, massacre, rape, villiages burned to the ground, they did it all. (Not that the Spanish didn't give as good as they got, the Spanish partisans killed more French than the British, Portaguese and Spainish field armys put together...)

Not likely to want a descendent of Bonaparte on the throne even sixty years later.

Also the mess the war made directly caused most of the unrest that troubled Spain for the next century, since the war pretty much tore open the cracks that had been emerging in Spain for decades, I doubt they'd thank a Bonaparte for that either...
 
I can't imagine why the Spaniards would want to saddle themselves with a 'past the sell-by date' emperor. Why on earth would they choose a deposed French ruler? Let alone one who's not been very successful lately.
Let alone a Bonaparte.
Moreover, Napoleon III was not really very liberal for most of his rule, and became so near the end mostly because he was too tired to rule properly.

This is a very strange question, IMO.
 
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