Princess Isabel marries Archduke Ludwig Victor

I was browsing around on some royal family sites and this little factoid caught my attention: while Franz Joseph was ruling Austria-Hungary, his mother was trying to get her homosexual/bisexual son Ludwig Victor married to various royals in Europe. It never worked out. One of the possibilities mentioned was for him to marry Princess Isabel, the only heir of Brazil's Emperor Pedro II.

I've read that one of the reasons the monarchy fell in Brazil is that no one seriously expected it to last beyond Isabel; she eventually married the Count of Eu, a comparatively unimportant noble from a minor cadet branch of the House of Orleans, and he was excluded from all politics by the Emperor, further decreasing the likelihood of a continued monarchy after Pedro II.

So what if she married the brother of the Austrian Emperor? Assuming that the two of them can produce an heir, will his perceived higher rank lend some credibility to the continuation of the Brazilian monarchy? Or is this one of those POD's that doesn't really have any effects besides changing some of the names in brief blurbs about history?

Also, as a personal question not too important to the actual discussion, what would Ludwig Victor be called in Brazil? Gaston of Orleans translated into Gastao D'Orleans in Portuguese...what the heck does a non-Latin name like Ludwig Victor get changed to?!?
 
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I was browsing around on some royal family sites and this little factoid caught my attention: while Franz Joseph was ruling Austria-Hungary, his mother was trying to get her homosexual/bisexual son Ludwig Victor married to various royals in Europe. It never worked out. One of the possibilities mentioned was for him to marry Princess Isabel, the only heir of Brazil's Emperor Pedro II.

I've read that one of the reasons the monarchy fell in Brazil is that no one seriously expected it to last beyond Isabel; she eventually married the Count of Eu, a comparatively unimportant noble from a minor cadet branch of the House of Orleans, and he was excluded from all politics by the Emperor, further decreasing the likelihood of a continued monarchy after Pedro II.

So what if she married the brother of the Austrian Emperor? Assuming that the two of them can produce an heir, will his perceived higher rank lend some credibility to the continuation of the Brazilian monarchy? Or is this one of those POD's that doesn't really have any effects besides changing some of the names in brief blurbs about history?

Also, as a personal question not too important to the actual discussion, what would Ludwig Victor be called in Brazil? Gaston of Orleans translated into Gastao D'Orleans in Portuguese...what the heck does a non-Latin name like Ludwig Victor get changed to?!?

I think there wouldn't be much changes at all. You still have the main problems: a female heir in a sexist society, her support to the anti-slavery groups, her Ultramontan Catholicism, and all the other problems that the Brazilian monarchy was suffering at the time.

Also, Luís Vítor (as he would be called) doesn't exactly seems the best guy to ensure the continuation of the Empire. I mean, IOTL Gaston was disliked by many for being foreign, as many were affraid that it would mean that as the husband of Isabel he would have more power than the Empress herself (again the sexist prejudices of the time). It wouldn't change IOTL, and the fact that his first language would be German instead of French (that at least was Court language) wouldn't make things better.

Also, assuming that ITTL his homossexuality is still a factor, then it would only make things worse. IOTL Gaston was accused of being a homossexual only because he was too polite and had too good manners compared with the rest of the Court. Ludwig, in the other hand, apparently displayed his homossexuality in very public way, so probably it would make him even more disliked.
 
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