From the following article:
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Politics/20111013/royal-succession-rules-david-cameron-changes-111013/
How likely would it have been for Britain to have changed the Act of Settlement in time for Wilhelm to have been Emperor of Germany and Britain?
I think it could've been possible had imperialism taken a deeper hold and people were thinking: "We could combine TWO empires and just kick SO much ASS!" Not gonna lie, the idea is of an Anglo-German Imperial wank is pretty good...
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Politics/20111013/royal-succession-rules-david-cameron-changes-111013/
Interestingly, it's the Act of Settlement that may have prevented Britain from forming an alliance with Germany's Second Reich just a few years before the Great War.
Wilhelm II of Germany, known as the Kaiser, was the grandson of Queen Victoria. Her eldest child -- Wilhelm's mother the Princess Royal -- was leapfrogged by her younger brother who went on to become Edward VII.
The Princess Royal later married Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia at 17, and gave birth to her son Wilhelm who would go on to become the Kaiser.
If the Act of Settlement hadn't been in place, the Princess Royal wouldn't have been leapfrogged by her younger brother to the British throne.
She would have been queen, and as a result when she died in 1901 her oldest son would have succeeded her.
That was the Kaiser, who by that time was Emperor of Germany, and theoretically could have extended Germany's empire to include Great Britain.
A few years later in 1914 when the Great War broke out, Britain could have been allied with Germany.
How likely would it have been for Britain to have changed the Act of Settlement in time for Wilhelm to have been Emperor of Germany and Britain?
I think it could've been possible had imperialism taken a deeper hold and people were thinking: "We could combine TWO empires and just kick SO much ASS!" Not gonna lie, the idea is of an Anglo-German Imperial wank is pretty good...