It just always struck me as the most reasonable match, I mean, way less ick than Petrushka marrying Elizabeth Petrovna, and a duke (however absolutist and abusive as Anna Leopoldovna's dad was) is far more useful to have as a family connection than some Livonian laundress (Marta Skavronska)
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It just always struck me as the most reasonable match, I mean, way less ick than Petrushka marrying Elizabeth Petrovna, and a duke (however absolutist and abusive as Anna Leopoldovna's dad was) is far more useful to have as a family connection than some Livonian laundress (Marta Skavronska)
Any of the original betrothals of the York kids
- Elizabeth of York and Charles VIII of France
- Mary of York and John of Denmark
- Cecily of York and either James III of Scotland or Alexander, Duke of Albany
- Edward V and Anne of Brittany
- Anne of York and Philip the Handsome
- Catherine of York and Juan, Prince of Asturias
I always loved all of these pairings - it's one of my eventual grander TLs to see what would of happened if everything had worked out for them
The only York kid who never had a solid betrothal by 1480-ish (besides Margaret and George who lived for a very short time, and Bridget who was destined for the nunnery) is a second marriage for Richard of Shrewsbury. Maybe an ATL sister of Afonso, Prince of Portugal, who let's cal Isabel after her paternal grandmother?
James III? Cecily was engaged to the Duke of Rothesay aka the future James IV not to his father (who had a very alive Queen)
Unlikely as such girl will most likely marry the prince of Asturias in a double wedding with his sister and her brother, plus her father and grandfather will try to marry her to an heir not to a second son (and Richard of Shrewsbury had not enough time for another engagement) but I can see Edward V marrying this Isabella of Portugal (or Juana of Aragon and Castile) and Richard remarrying to Anne of Brittany
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Isabella of Bourbon-Parma and Maria Christine of Austria
Stanislas Poniatowski and Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (in a scenario where she doesn't become empress)
Pyotr III and Anna Amalie of Prussia/Maria Anna of Saxony
Emperor Joseph II and Élisabeth de France
Emperor Joseph II and Maria Elisabeth of Saxony
Emperor Joseph II and Maria Benedita of Portugal
Emperor Joseph II and Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma
Louis Philippe I, duc d'Orléans and Maria Kunigunde of Saxony
Stanislas Poniatowski and Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (in a scenario where she doesn't become empress)
Pyotr III and Anna Amalie of Prussia/Maria Anna of Saxony
Emperor Joseph II and Élisabeth de France
Emperor Joseph II and Maria Elisabeth of Saxony
Emperor Joseph II and Maria Benedita of Portugal
Emperor Joseph II and Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma
Louis Philippe I, duc d'Orléans and Maria Kunigunde of Saxony
- King Umberto I of Italy and Archduchess Mathilde of Austria-Teschen (She died before the wedding)
- Prince Albert Victor of Wales and Princess Alice of Hesse-Darmstadt (She refused Eddy proposal in 1889)
- Prince Albert Victor of Wales and Princess Helene of Orleans (Helene's father prevented the union)
- Prince George of Wales and Princess Marie of Edinburgh (Maria Alexandrovna did not agree to the union)
- Prince George of Wales and Princess Margareth of Prussia (Vicky was expecting a marriage between them)
- Princess Louise of Wales and Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich of Russia (Louise refused Mikhail in 1887)
- Princess Victoria of Wales and King Carlos I of Portugal (The religious question prevented the wedding)
- Princess Victoria of Wales and Emperor Nicolas II of Russia (Nicky fell in love with Alix)
- Princess Victoria of Wales and King Christian X of Denmark (Toria refused Christian in 1896)
- Princess Victoria of Wales and Prince Maximilian of Baden (Alix prevented Toria from being informed that Max wanted to marry her - 1896)
- Princess Maud of Wales and Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (Maud refused Friedrich in 1888)
- Princess Maud of Wales and Duke Ernest Gunther of Schleswig-Holstein (Maud refused Ernest when he courted her at Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein wedding in 1891)
- Princess Maud of Wales and King Victor Emanuel III of Italy (Margueritta prevented the union)
- Princess Maud of Wales and Prince Nicolas of Greece and Denmark (Maud refused Nicolas)
- Princess Maud of Wales and Prince Francis of Teck (Francis refused Maud)
- Princess Elisabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt and Emperor Willian II of Germany (Ella refused Willian)
- Princess Viktoria of Prussia and Prince Alexander of Battenberg (They would certainly have married if Friedrich III had lived a few years longer)
- Princess Helene of Orleans and Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (After the Archduke go to London the wedding was already taken for granted, but he fell in love with Sophie)
- Princess Helene of Orleans and Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (Helene refused Ferdinand)
- Prince Carl of Denmark and Queen Wihelmine of Netherlands (It is speculated that Carl's mother and grandmother wanted to marry him with the youg Queen)
- Princess Louise of Denmark and King Victor Emanuel III of Italy (I do not remenber for sure, but it seems that Louise's father prevented the union)
- King Christian X of Denmark and Princess Margueritte of Orleans (The sister of Princess Waldemar of Denmark was the first love of Christian but they did not marry by the religious question)
Funny that Wilhelmina herself never mentions such a match in her autobiography IIRC. She does however mention that they were looking at "Black Pete" Petros of Greece for Juliana, or one of his Danish cousins. However Belgium's Swedish connections made many in the Dutch cabinet question the wisdom of such a match.
This was a pity, since Ludwig was the last of the Hesse-Darmstadt branch. So had he married Juliana, it could be fun to speculate about them having kids. Not to mention, Ludwig was later brother-in-law to the duke of Edinburgh's sister. That his brother was a Nazi shouldn't be overly problematic. Winston Churchill and many in the British public hated Philip for precisely the same reason: "his sisters are married to Nazis".
perhaps wihelmine herself has never been informed of such claims. Carl married young by the standards of the time, he was only 23 years old in 1896, wihelmine was only 16 at the time, so that plan may have been just behind the scenes.
Princess Charlotte of Prussia and Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria
(Not for romantic ship reasons. Just because I'm a bad person and wonder what kind of dumpster fire that would have turned into).
(Not for romantic ship reasons. Just because I'm a bad person and wonder what kind of dumpster fire that would have turned into).
Polish nobleman Jan Baptysta Tęczyński and Cecilia Vasa, daughter of Gustav I of Sweden. Tęczyński, youngest senator of Poland, was Polish envoy in Sweden. He fell in love with Cecilia Vasa there, and get consent for marriage from her brother king Erik XIV of Sweden. Love story of Jan and Cecilia had sad ending-Tęczyński, after getting consent, returned to Poland to gather founds for marriage. When he was going back to Sweden to take Cecilia home, his ship was captured by Danes, who were at war with Sweden. Tęczyński was imprisoned and died in Copenhagen.
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Mirhran, Sister of Khosrow II (b.586) and Ioustinianos, Son of Maurikios (b.589).
The sheer dynastic implications of this marriage are astounding.
On an unrelated note, I've always found Ioustinianos as the most interesting son of Maurikios. Supposedly, he was the only one of Maurikios' sons in Nikomedia who didn't end up with his head on a pike because either a) A guard just offed him in Nikomedia and dumped the body somewhere because he thought it would be a disgrace to celebrate the death of a child, or b) a nursemaid smuggled him out of the city before the chop. It's most likely a, but I'm thinking of a TL based on b.
The sheer dynastic implications of this marriage are astounding.
On an unrelated note, I've always found Ioustinianos as the most interesting son of Maurikios. Supposedly, he was the only one of Maurikios' sons in Nikomedia who didn't end up with his head on a pike because either a) A guard just offed him in Nikomedia and dumped the body somewhere because he thought it would be a disgrace to celebrate the death of a child, or b) a nursemaid smuggled him out of the city before the chop. It's most likely a, but I'm thinking of a TL based on b.
Ronald Reagan and Elizabeth II...why? we already have Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier IOTL.
Elizabeth Petrovna, Empress of Russia, and Count Aleksey Grigorivich Razumovksy
(There's a chance they were married morganatically but the Empess never said one way or another. I would love for them to have been properly, publicly married and maybe even have an heir or two. Anything to get rid of Peter III)
(There's a chance they were married morganatically but the Empess never said one way or another. I would love for them to have been properly, publicly married and maybe even have an heir or two. Anything to get rid of Peter III)
Here's an interesting one:
Sir Winston Churchill and Miss Violet Asquith (later Lady Violet Bonham Carter, grandmother of Helena Bonham Carter).
She was apparently his "closest" female friend and was devoted to him through their lives; her father was Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, and Churchill was a fervant member of his party for years. She was angry at his engagement to Clementine and was said to have called Clementine "as stupid as an owl". Between his engagement and his marriage, Churchill spent time in Scotland with the Asquith familly and later admitted that "he had "behaved badly" to Violet, as they were "almost engaged". Some days after his departure Violet went missing one evening, and she was discovered after a dangerous search by local people lasting several hours." She was found lying uninjured on a costal path, having supposedly thrown herself off a cliff over Churchill. It has been suggested that "Churchill's holiday with Violet may have been the reason for Clementine's last-minute threat to call off their wedding".
I'm a fan of Clementine Hozier Churchill, but I'm very intrigued by the idea of Violet Asquith Churchill.
Sir Winston Churchill and Miss Violet Asquith (later Lady Violet Bonham Carter, grandmother of Helena Bonham Carter).
She was apparently his "closest" female friend and was devoted to him through their lives; her father was Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, and Churchill was a fervant member of his party for years. She was angry at his engagement to Clementine and was said to have called Clementine "as stupid as an owl". Between his engagement and his marriage, Churchill spent time in Scotland with the Asquith familly and later admitted that "he had "behaved badly" to Violet, as they were "almost engaged". Some days after his departure Violet went missing one evening, and she was discovered after a dangerous search by local people lasting several hours." She was found lying uninjured on a costal path, having supposedly thrown herself off a cliff over Churchill. It has been suggested that "Churchill's holiday with Violet may have been the reason for Clementine's last-minute threat to call off their wedding".
I'm a fan of Clementine Hozier Churchill, but I'm very intrigued by the idea of Violet Asquith Churchill.
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