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In 1868, an Irish nationalist known as Henry James O'Farrell attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria's son Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha at a charity event in Sydney, Australia. Although the Prince was wounded in the back, he managed to recover, avoiding a tragic fate due to the bullet narrowly evading his spinal cord. What if O'Farrell actually succeeded in killing the Duke? How would the world of that timeline deviate from ours?
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