Succession in Württemberg in a Central Powers/German Empires survives TL

I was doing some reading on some of the minor statelets and the situation in Württemberg struck me as quite interesting. The last reigning king had no children, nor did his nearest Protestant kinsman, meaning that the crown would ultimately pass to the Catholic Duke of Württemberg, Albrecht. bypassing the Urach and Teck branches of the family, as they were Morgantic. I realize that in the early twentieth century these issues are quite small, but apparently in the mid-1910s there were considerable discussions on the implications of a Catholic king considering Württemberg was a Protestant kingdom and (like many of the Protestant principalities that were part of the German Empire) had it's own state church. Assuming we have a TL where the German Empire doesn't collapse (no WW1 or Central Powers victory, take your pick), what might be the effects on this tiny kingdom? Certainly not an earth shattering POD but an interesting one, certainly. Many of the states of the German Empire had very interesting constitutional and financial setups that were cause of many discussions. I believe one German general even mentioned for the need for war in 1914 or earlier because Germany could not afford to continue it's armament programs: because of it's federal structure the state didn't collect as many taxes as say France and Great Britain did as a unitary state.
 
I guess the situation would end up like Saxony's: Catholic kings ruling over a Protestant kingdom.

By the cuius regio eius religio wasn't that important, as monarchs took a back seat to popular governments.
 
It is an interesting one - I think i recall that during Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (who was married to the Duke of Teck) many financial embarrassments Queen Victoria did ask enquiries to be made about the chances of the Tecks being included in the succession to Wurtemburg the answer was pretty clear but given Mary of Teck's marriage to the future George V and their fondness for her brother who knows what might have happened.
 
I think Princess Pauline of Württemberg would have been surprised to hear that her father Wilhelm II, the last King of same, had no children. However it is true that his only son died aged five months, and since Württemberg operated Salic law he would have been succeeded by his remote Catholic kinsman Duke Albrecht. I don't to be honest think there would have been any difficulties, and certainly none leading to the accession of the Teck line instead. The Württemberg population was majority Protestant but about 30% Catholic (1905 figure), so the new King would have belonged to a significant minority, and the Wars of Religion were in any case happily long over. The kingdom was by the way about 7,500 square miles with a population of just under two and a half million, so small but not pocket-handkerchief.
 
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