Potential Brides:
- Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, daughter of Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria Amalia of Austria
- Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Seventh of fourteen children of Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg
- Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
- Duchess Louise Frederica of Württemberg, daughter of Frederick Louis, Hereditary Prince of Württemberg
- Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, eldest granddaughter of the Elector of the Palatinate Charles III Philip
- Maria Louise Albertine was a daughter of Count Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim
- Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel, daughter of Landgrave Maximilian of Hesse-Kassel
The two Brunswick girls are out - as stated above, I'm under the (possibly mistaken) impression that Brunswick and Hannover were at sixes and sevens - a proposed double marriage for George III and his sister, Auguste of Wales, with the duke and his sister (OTL Margravine of Bayreuth), was intended to smooth that over.
Luise Friederike could make for a way of getting new blood into the family. Although I'm not sure whether her OTL childlessness was the fault of her or her husband.
Ulrike might be seen as too much in the Prussian camp (Prussia and Hannover were at odds for most of the 1730s), but she could be used to clean up that mess, particularly since she's
not Prussianbut with
connections to Prussia.
Elisabeth Auguste I think might be a bit out of left-field. Her grandfather decided pretty early on that she and her sisters were gonna marry their Wittelsbach cousins, after it became clear that she wouldn't have a brother. Although, again, her sister Maria Franziska (Max I of Bavaria's mom), is the only one of the three girls to have had a successful childbearing history: Elisabeth Auguste was married for 20 years before she gave birth to a shortlived son; and Maria Anna had four children of which none lived longer than a few months. So, perhaps Maria Franziska instead?
Maria Antonia might make for an interesting candidate. She was cultured, intelligent, talented. She'd actually make a pretty good foil for Cumberland's militaristic bombastic nature - although I'm not sure how we could get such a match to happen. Bavaria was in the French camp, and England-Hannover and France are at each others throats as many times a week as there are days ending with a 'y'. I could easily see the duchess of Cumberland as being the leader of the cultural (if not the political) trends in mid-18thc London.
Luise Albertine I'm afraid I don't know enough about to comment.
