Queen Victoria marries the Duke of Orleans

What if Queen Victoria marries the Duke of Orleans instead of Prince Albert, what will happen and what are the consequences?
 
I very much doubt it. He was the heir apparent of France, and while French law would not have immediately excluded him upon conversion as British law would Victoria if he did not convert, in practice his succession would be untenable. Which although it would have resolved the personal union problems that otherwise would prevent the match is unlikely to have been desired by him. He did in fact marry a Protestant who never converted, but so long as he remained Catholic and the children were brought up in that faith this was acceptable in France, if not exactly welcomed, and there were as aforesaid not the same legal issues over it as there were in Britain. The alien space bats would need to be called in for this one, I feel. For your possible interest, the relevant passage from the legislation:

And it was thereby further enacted, that all and every person and persons that then were, or afterwards should be reconciled to, or shall hold communion with the see or Church of Rome, or should profess the popish religion, or marry a papist, should be excluded, and are by that Act made for ever incapable to inherit, possess, or enjoy the Crown and government of this realm, and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, or any part of the same, or to have, use, or exercise any regal power, authority, or jurisdiction within the same: and in all and every such case and cases the people of these realms shall be and are thereby absolved of their allegiance: and that the said Crown and government shall from time to time descend to and be enjoyed by such person or persons, being Protestants, as should have inherited and enjoyed the same, in case the said person or persons, so reconciled, holding communion, professing or marrying, as aforesaid, were naturally dead.
 
Parliament would reject the marriage, thus making it illegal, over the fears of being too closely tied to a state which was a traditional enemy of the UK and which there was still at this point every feeling that the UK would declare war on again.
 
Three letters : ASB.

Having Victoria marry the Duke of Orléans would make her loose her rights to the French throne : the Duke is a Catholic and Catholics can't inherit the English throne (that's how the British got rid of the Jacobite Stuarts and got the Hanoverians).

A French marriage also doesn't seem likely given Victoria's position in the British order of succession (she was already 4th in line at the death of George III in January 1820, behind her two uncles (Georges IV and William IV) as well as her father Edward, Duke of Kent (who died in March 1820)) and the fact the British had done nothing but fight the French (Napoleonic Wars are still fresh in mind).
 
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