Queen Victoria dies in 1840

...Where can one make bulk purchases on tissues? :D

Personal unions in the nineteenth century will always be tricky - you have to balance the differing national interests with the default alliance that will be there. It's why I never continued with ASCOT [Anglo-Dutch personal union], and why I'm having trouble with Astonishing the World.

Even harder than that - personal unions in the twentieth century. How could we pull THAT one off, folks?

I still like the 21 C William/Aiko personal union, although the ages are a little awkward. ;):(
 

Susano

Banned
...Where can one make bulk purchases on tissues? :D

Personal unions in the nineteenth century will always be tricky - you have to balance the differing national interests with the default alliance that will be there. It's why I never continued with ASCOT [Anglo-Dutch personal union], and why I'm having trouble with Astonishing the World.

Even harder than that - personal unions in the twentieth century. How could we pull THAT one off, folks?

Eh, Victoria needs consent from Palriament beofre marrying, doesnt she? So that steps it cold in the tracks, until we can get an unbelivably close British-Prussian alliance within 20 years (or maybe 40, 60 if we add some decades before the assassination of Victoria). Then again, Great Britain would accept Ernest Augustus only grudgingly, and if Victoria becomes enough of a power player she might know and use that. "Yeah, of course I could just rescind my rights. See how you like my murderous great-uncle".

Politically, if we assume a much stronger France... maybe, after a messier and more botched 1848 even one *shudders*... I mean... argh, I cant spit it out *sighs*... one that dominates Southern Germany! Plus maybe an earlier colonial race...
 

Susano

Banned
I still like the 21 C William/Aiko personal union, although the ages are a little awkward. ;):(

Yeah, thats the problem with no-gender-preference primogeniture... and the solution is you dont marry heirs :p Just ask Dorne! :p
 
Politically, if we assume a much stronger France... maybe, after a messier and more botched 1848 even one *shudders*... I mean... argh, I cant spit it out *sighs*...

"I am here to... to... to... to destroy the German Empire of Hesse!"

...Oh, wait, wrong thing-Susano-can't-say. ;)
 
Nono, Zyz means Hesse, not the Chattii :p
But you asked on thoughts on how to make that union happen. No more input from you?

...Did I? I... er... I'm not exactly in a normal state of mind right now, I'm testing the usage of jelly babies as a mind-altering substance. Your post is happily turning into a duck and flying off the screen.
 
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