Here we go, my retcon set up to the War;
Prologue-Courtly Love
It is said that Constantine's rise to power began, in fact, in 1814, when he visited the Prussian Court with his brothers Nicholas and Michael. It was there that he met Princess Charlotte of Prussia. The two quickly became infatuated with each other though it was later revealed to Constantine that Alexander planned to marry her to Nicholas. Constantine begged to marry her, his planned marriage to Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld had fallen flat on it's face when she became deathly ill and died in 1792. Since then, Constantine's mistresses had become quite controversial. Alexander, seeing that his brother was truly infatuated and sensing an opportunity to dispel the rumours and controversy, consented. Two years later, in 1816 Constantine married Charlotte, who became Alexandra. Nicholas was angered by the change in plan, he too had affections for Alexandra but she never returned such emotions. Nicholas grew to hate his brother and saw him as stealing his bride away from him.
The marriage was a loving one and whilst Alexandra was at first overwhelmed by the enormity and sheer alien nature of the Russian court, her husband was loving and attentive and taught her both the Russian language and how to survive. Whilst this happened she told him of her want to be free to explore music and reading, her husband of course accepted. Alexandra would go on to introduce many new forms of music and artwork to the Russian court. She became the most fashionable woman in Russia and both Tsar Alexander and her husband Constantine came to accept and appreciate her westernisation of Russian Aristocracy. With this influx of Western Culture, came too Western ideas of Liberalism and Constitution. Whilst Alexander was at first wary of such modern ideal, his brother Constantine came to accept and believe in a modernisation of the Empire. Nicholas, throughout this, grew to hate his brother more and more and saw the influx of Liberalism into Russia as detrimental to the Russian cause. His political views slow grew more Reactionary in response to his brothers shift to the left of politics. The Court too was split, some followed Constantine's example whilst others saw it dangerous and followed Nicholas, Alexander attempted to remain neutral throughout but slowly shifted towards Constantine's camp. In an attempt to avoid conflict, and remaining childless, Constantine offered to secretly renounce his claim on the throne in 1823. Alexander and Nicholas agreed but six months later it was found that Alexandra was pregnant and Constantine would be childless no longer. On 7th July 1824, Peter Romanov was born, Constantine's first son and possible heir to the throne...
Tell me if you see any plausibility errors .
