The British-Danish Empire

The P.O.D - Prince Albert of dies on 19 September 1819 after being baptized with tainted water taken from the local river, the Itz.

So on 10 February 1840, Queen Victoria marries her third cousin, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

They're nations were blessed on 15 November 1863, when Frederick VII of Denmark died leaving the throne to Prince Christian.

Changes in ITTL
- The couple have 12 children famously becoming the most integrated family in Europe.
- The two empires merge into one
- Victoria lives to at least 1906 (Christian's DoD)
- War of Danish Succession (First Schleswig War) With British and Danish Empire vs Prussia, German Confederation and Duchy of Holstein and Schleswig
 
The P.O.D - Prince Albert of dies on 19 September 1819 after being baptized with tainted water taken from the local river, the Itz.

So on 10 February 1840, Queen Victoria marries her third cousin, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

They're nations were blessed on 15 November 1863, when Frederick VII of Denmark died leaving the throne to Prince Christian.

Changes in ITTL
- The couple have 12 children famously becoming the most integrated family in Europe.
- The two empires merge into one
- Victoria lives to at least 1906 (Christian's DoD)
- War of Danish Succession (First Schleswig War) With British and Danish Empire vs Prussia, German Confederation and Duchy of Holstein and Schleswig

Your chronology and background knowledge of the Danish monarchy is confused.

Christian was effectively selected as heir to Frederik VII because he was the individual who best met the various criteria, however he was not the automatic heir.

Christian's claim to the Danish throne was weak at best, it was generally accepted at the time that the claims of his wife Louise of Hesse-Kassel significantly enhanced his own weak claims and it was their marriage that effectively secured Christian's claims, a number of claimants including Louise's brother renounced their claims to solidify Christian's position.

Without a marriage to Louise of Hesse Kassel, it is unlikely that Christian would be selected as the future Danish King, especially since this in fact did not happen until the late 1840s, by which time Victoria would have needed to be married for some time. The husband of the British Queen would not have been selected as the future King of Denmark.
 
Any chance that Louise could have married a Hohenzollern - one far enough down the Prussian line of succession that there's little risk of a union of crowns?

That could scupper Bismarck, as there is no way that Wilhelm I would take Schleswig-Holstein from a member of his own family.
 
Any chance that Louise could have married a Hohenzollern - one far enough down the Prussian line of succession that there's little risk of a union of crowns?

Of course. There were lots of marriages between the two respective families - Louise's brother married a Prussian princess.

[/QUOTE]That could scupper Bismarck, as there is no way that Wilhelm I would take Schleswig-Holstein from a member of his own family.[/QUOTE]

In 1866, Frederick William, Elector of Hesse was deposed by the Prussians. His mother had been a Prussian princess and a first cousin of Wilhelm I. Family did not get in the way of development and expansion.
 
Of course. There were lots of marriages between the two respective families - Louise's brother married a Prussian princess.

That could scupper Bismarck, as there is no way that Wilhelm I would take Schleswig-Holstein from a member of his own family.
In 1866, Frederick William, Elector of Hesse was deposed by the Prussians. His mother had been a Prussian princess and a first cousin of Wilhelm I. Family did not get in the way of development and expansion.

Point taken, but the Elector had taken the Austrian side against Prussia. Presumably the Hohenzollern King of Denmark won't have done anything like that, and Wilhelm is, I suspect, unlikely to take up the cudgels against him on behalf of the Schleswigers.
 
Then again, would an Hohenzollern King be accepted in Denmark in the first place? ... at least the Oldenburgs were naturalized for the last many generations. And a royal ruler too foreign and out of alignment with the parlament and local nobles might well only succed in starting a civil war with pseudo-republican revolters aiming at making the two chambers of the parlament the highest rule in the country.
 
Point taken, but the Elector had taken the Austrian side against Prussia. Presumably the Hohenzollern King of Denmark won't have done anything like that, and Wilhelm is, I suspect, unlikely to take up the cudgels against him on behalf of the Schleswigers.

When did a Hohenzollern become King of Denmark?

Neither Christian IX or Louise of Hesse-Kassel were first in line to the Danish throne, there were many other different rival candidates, however none could compete with Christian AND Louise combined, Christian had close personal bonds with the Danish monarchy and Louise was far higher in the line of succession. They complimented one another.

Take away one and the other's claim becomes much, much weaker.

Louise had an older brother, who renounced his claims to help his brother-in-law who stood a better chance of being accepted as King of Denmark given his close personal links (he was more or less raised in the court of Frederick VI) to Denmark. Why would he do that for his sister and her random Prussian husband?
 
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