Victoria marries George not Albert

what if Queen Victoria had done what her Uncle (King William IV) had wanted and married Prince George (future King George V of Hanover) rather than marrying her Mother's pick Prince Albert?
 
Well Parliament is going to be annoyed since they were never very keen about the personal union of Great Britain and Hanover, they considered it a dangerous continental entanglement that brought few if any benefits, and they've only just thought they'd got rid of the place and now it's turned back up again like a bad penny. Technically doesn't Parliament have approve the monarch's choice of spouse - might they feel strongly enough to quietly veto the deal to avoid getting dragged into European conflicts? Plus whilst royalty in this period only has a limited number of choices might they not be a little too closely related?
 

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Well Parliament is going to be annoyed since they were never very keen about the personal union of Great Britain and Hanover, they considered it a dangerous continental entanglement that brought few if any benefits, and they've only just thought they'd got rid of the place and now it's turned back up again like a bad penny. Technically doesn't Parliament have approve the monarch's choice of spouse - might they feel strongly enough to quietly veto the deal to avoid getting dragged into European conflicts? Plus whilst royalty in this period only has a limited number of choices might they not be a little too closely related?

Like an American hillbilly family!
 
This changes European royalty a lot. There's a reason Victoria was called the Grandmother of Europe you know;) Clearly, Albert was one of those men who like curves. :D

We will not see a Kaiser Wilhelm II. Perhaps a German monarchy stretches into the present day.
 
Technically doesn't Parliament have approve the monarch's choice of spouse - might they feel strongly enough to quietly veto the deal to avoid getting dragged into European conflicts? Plus whilst royalty in this period only has a limited number of choices might they not be a little too closely related?

In the Netherlands the States-General has to approve royal marriages, otherwise the person involved loses succession rights for themselves and their children, which has happened several times. In Britain Parliament has no role in approving royal marriages, only the monarch him or herself.

Actually Parliament could have a role under the Royal Marriages Act 1772. If the monarch refuses consent to the marriage of someone over 25 then one year after delivering notice to the Privy Council the parties involved can contract a valid marriage, unless both Houses of Parliament take the trouble to expressly disapprove. Since consent has never ever been refused, that one has never got out of the starting blocks.

On the first cousin thing, as already said so was Albert Victoria's first cousin. He was the son of her mother's brother, and George V of Hanover of her father's.
 
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