But if Charles marries the Duchess of Sagan he'd learn so much about astrophysics!
Perhaps the wrong Sagan for those kind of lessons.
But if Charles marries the Duchess of Sagan he'd learn so much about astrophysics!
It seems to me that Charles has a more pragmatic attitude toward marriage than his mother. The Duchess is weighing the suitability of potential brides according to traditional criteria, as if Charles still had a throne. Charles is looking toward having money and resources of his own, and possibly even political power, which would help enable him to maintain his court and advocate his cause more effectively.
On the other hand, I suspect Otoni is right in believing that foreign parliaments and royal families will want no part of the legitimist cause, and even if Charles marries into the Polish or Swedish dynasties, he'll have a hard time escaping the hothouse atmosphere of a court in exile. His courtiers will follow him and continue to drag him down.
Great chapter! I really like this association of the tragedy of the Bourbons with the Jacobites.
There is just a nitpick: why Duchess of Otoni? I mean, Otoni was a surname of a family in Brazil, and all them were extreme Republicans, even during the apex of monarchy. The city called Teofilo Otoni received its name to honour one of them, and even if it was named this way during the Empire it would be a bit awkward to make a nobility title from a place linked to Republicanism.![]()
Out of interest, when Carlos went to become emperador of Mexico, did he become Emperor of the entire Spanish New World colonies (possibly with the Spanish East Indies included?) or did his younger brother, Francisco, his cousins, Pedro Carlos and Luis Maria de Borbon, and his uncle, the Infante Antonio (married in 1795 to his niece, who died in childbirth with a stillborn daughter in 1797/98, although initially he'd been considered as a possible husband for one of the OTL king of Etruria's sisters, but when Luigi took Luisetta as a wife instead of the originally offered Amelia, her parents married her to her uncle instead) get something too? Antonio I could see simply for the reason that he was as anti-French as anything, so they might wanna get him out of Spain if its getting a French queen.