The daughters of George III

Suppose King George III of England and his wife, Queen Charlotte have all daughters:
Charlotte, Princess Royal
Princess Augusta Sophia
Princess Elizabeth
Princess Mary
Princess Sophia
Princess Amelia

What happens then?
 
Suppose King George III of England and his wife, Queen Charlotte have all daughters:
Charlotte, Princess Royal
Princess Augusta Sophia
Princess Elizabeth
Princess Mary
Princess Sophia
Princess Amelia

What happens then?

The crown would go to Queen Charlotte. Women had been admitted to the succession either in 1701 or prior. Charlotte, being heiress presumptive, would not have been married off to the King of Württemburg.
 
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I imagine the throne would go to Prince William Henry's son, Prince William Frederick. William Frederick married late in OTL because of issues regarding finding a suitable spouse; I imagine with him as heir to the throne there would be more urgency in finding him a wife.

Um, you do not seem to grasp the concept of a line of succession.

Charlotte would become Queen after her father's death.
 
Suppose King George III of England and his wife, Queen Charlotte have all daughters:
Charlotte, Princess Royal
Princess Augusta Sophia
Princess Elizabeth
Princess Mary
Princess Sophia
Princess Amelia

What happens then?

Charlotte marries a German prince at a young age and hopefully proves as fertile as her mother.

Her sisters, certainly the younger ones may not in fact ever marry, provided Charlotte had at least a couple of kids.
 

Kingpoleon

Banned
Prince William Frederick would probably marry Charlotte, to prevent the line of succession from losing its previous masculine touch.
 
Prince William Frederick would probably marry Charlotte, to prevent the line of succession from losing its previous masculine touch.

His mother would have been problematic, he only managed to snag Princess Mary because George III had long since gone mad.

I'm trying to work out who would have been the heir to Hanover, he would have probably been George III's preferred choice, to keep the two crowns united.
 
Suppose King George III of England and his wife, Queen Charlotte have all daughters:
Charlotte, Princess Royal
Princess Augusta Sophia
Princess Elizabeth
Princess Mary
Princess Sophia
Princess Amelia

What happens then?

As there is no Slavic law, Princess Charlotte becomes queen in 1820, but only reigning til 6 October 1828. It all depends on who she marries and if she has issue.
Maybe Prince Louis Charles of Prussia

The crown of Hanover, which is under Slavic law will go to King George's brother, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh's son, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, as he is the next in the succession line.

The other daughters are married off or kept around the palace.

Instead of Charlotte marrying Frederick I of Württemberg, he will most likely be married off to Augusta.

Mary would like in OTL marry her cousin King William Frederick, of Hanover.

And Princess Elizabeth marries Frederick VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.

Amelia never married as she died aged only 27.

While Princess Sophia is rumoured to have been raped by her elder brother Ernest, who would go on to be Ernest Augustus I of Hanover, without Ernest maybe she is able to marry into another royal family.
 
George was very reluctant to let his younger daughters marry because he was a sentimental cove, so let's not get too ambitious with our matchmaking, yeah? Charlotte marries Gloucester, maybe one of the younger ones marries the the King of Wurttemberg, and then we're down to younger daughters being rebellious and marrying Army officers and Landgraves just to get out of the clutches of their parents.

One question: who becomes Regent when George III succumbs to porphyria? Charlotte? Gloucester? somebody else?
 

Kingpoleon

Banned
I'm telling you guys, Gloucester & Charlotte would probably marry and become Co-Regents. It's not unprecedented for a Queen to marry her uncle, or to keep crowns united via such. There was even a suggestion for Victoria to marry her cousin, Ernest Augustus, in a similar case.
 
I'm telling you guys, Gloucester & Charlotte would probably marry and become Co-Regents. It's not unprecedented for a Queen to marry her uncle, or to keep crowns united via such. There was even a suggestion for Victoria to marry her cousin, Ernest Augustus, in a similar case.

As the PoD is 1762, we can't be entirely sure of that. Even if we take it as read that all the daughters of George III are born on time, with the same names and personalities, then there are still events in the 1760s which may be butterflied. So maybe Edward, Duke of York survives, marries Charlotte himself , or has a son who marries her, or William Henry, Duke of Gloucester marries equally, and his son marries Charlotte. At any rate, I reckon all concerned would be more amenable to a cousin marriage than an uncle-niece one.
 
Something like the OTL mad dash to marry off George III's sons (following the death of Princess Charlotte, whose existence is butterflied) will happen with the daughters instead. It will have to happen earlier, since they need to marry while young enough to have children. Maybe during George's first period of insanity which removes the main impediment to their marriages, George himself.
 
Something like the OTL mad dash to marry off George III's sons (following the death of Princess Charlotte, whose existence is butterflied) will happen with the daughters instead. It will have to happen earlier, since they need to marry while young enough to have children. Maybe during George's first period of insanity which removes the main impediment to their marriages, George himself.

Remember George III was whelping infants well into the 1780s, so there would be a reasonable amount of confidence in a male heir until such a time as the Queen became infertile*. Only then would the mad dash commence, given that the Royal couple were quite controlling of their daughters and enjoyed their company - they would therefore be reluctant to send them off to Europe until it was clear that there was a crisis. And even then, we're likely to see the elder ones married to whichever Hannoverian males are still basically alive rather than the OTL flurry of minor scions of princely Houses that their brothers had to make do with.

*I'm assuming that the PoD is that all the sons are conceived but die before birth or in infancy - otherwise the birth schedule wouldn't tally with the Queen's reproductive cycle. The fact that sons are being born would encourage contemporaries, while their deaths would inspire much-needed sympathy for the Hannoverians. As a side, I'd expect the stress of not having a son (and frequent infant deaths) would aggravate George's insanity, meaning a Regent would need to be appointed for a large part of his reign.
 
Ahem...Georgie boy, mad or no, didn't exactly like his siblings - he left his youngest sister in prison until she died (refusing to talk to her), he drew up the Royal Marriages Act due to his brothers marrying willy-nilly. Not to mention the women that became his sisters-in-law weren't exactly of his choosing/liking (for instance, Anne Luttrell-Houghton - "the Duke of Grafton's Mrs Houghton, the Duke of Dorset's Mrs Houghton, everyone's Mrs Houghton").

That said, his daughters that did marry, married as a way to escape their mother, whom they had to remain with as companions (much like Queen Victoria's). Elizabeth's statement of "if he is single, I will marry him" about the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, bears echoes of Princess Anne's remark about marriage to the Prince of Orange "I will marry him, even if he is a baboon". Elizabeth was forced to turn down a match with the future Louis Philippe, and Augusta was proposed to by both the prince of Denmark and Prince Adolf of Sweden, while Mary was wanted as a wife by Prince Frederik of the Netherlands.
 
Thinking about husband's for Charlotte, I am disregarding any British nephew of George III unless they are the product of a legal marriage i.e. in compliance with the RMA.

What about Charlotte's first cousin Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick? I think he would be George III's heir to Hanover. He was slightly younger but only by 5 years.

This would provide for a continued personal union, provided Charlotte had a son.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_William_Ferdinand,_Duke_of_Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
 
Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia (1730-1813) married Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1738-1820).
Their sons were:
Friedrich Heinrich Emil Karl 1769-1773
Friedrich Christian Heinrich Ludwig 1771-1790
Friedrich Ludwig Christian 1772-1806 killed in the Battle of Saalfield
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich August 1779-1843

Suppose all these Princes of Prussia live into adulthood and Friedrich Ludwig is not killed in action.

In regards to the daughters of George III:
Charlotte, Princess Royal marries Friedrich Heinrich.. He shall be Frederick Henry.
Princess Augusta Sophia marries Friedrich Christian.
Princess Sophia marries Friedrich Ludwig.
Princess Amelia marries Friedrich Wilhelm.
 
Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia (1730-1813) married Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1738-1820).
Their sons were:
Friedrich Heinrich Emil Karl 1769-1773
Friedrich Christian Heinrich Ludwig 1771-1790
Friedrich Ludwig Christian 1772-1806 killed in the Battle of Saalfield
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich August 1779-1843

Suppose all these Princes of Prussia live into adulthood and Friedrich Ludwig is not killed in action.

In regards to the daughters of George III:
Charlotte, Princess Royal marries Friedrich Heinrich.. He shall be Frederick Henry.
Princess Augusta Sophia marries Friedrich Christian.
Princess Sophia marries Friedrich Ludwig.
Princess Amelia marries Friedrich Wilhelm.

So a Hohenzollern Britain? Well, it'll bring some fresh blood into the family, especially since none of the Margravine's children (except her eldest) were fathered by her husband but by Friedrich Wilhelm Carl von Schmettau:D
 
I'm telling you guys, Gloucester & Charlotte would probably marry and become Co-Regents. It's not unprecedented for a Queen to marry her uncle

It is in Britain - we're not Hapsburgs, you know. The mere rumour that Richard III was considering marrying his niece was enough to cement his unpopularity, anything closer than first cousins is out of the question.
 
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