this may of been done before, however what would the World look like if Victoria had never become Queen? (weather never born or died before William VI)
Although, who takes her place?
"Augustus" is a horrible name for a reigning monarch - King Ernest I seems rather more likely to me, actually. Evil King Ernie timelines have been done, but they tend to become hyperbole - Ernest had the combination of intelligence, discipline and amazing character flaws that cry out to make him a villain to some people, and enough records about him were lost or never written down in the first place to give an author all too much license.
The continuing personal union between the UK and Hanover throws a monkeywrench in German unification something fierce.
A few predictions about Ernestine Britain, which someone or other will no doubt disagree with: Evil Ernie was staunchly opposed to both Catholic and Jewish Emancipation. He's too late to stop Catholic, but there's no way Jews are getting the vote with him on the throne. Scotland Yard's primary duty in 1837 was reading people's mail to identify dissidents; investigating crime was kind of a sideline for them. They were refocused early in Victoria's reign OTL; another thing Evil Ernie is not interested in. He was the leader of the Orange Lodges, and while he may have been unable to block the law, "voting while Catholic" is an excellent way to get your kneecaps broken during his reign. Running for office while Catholic may be extremely hazardous to one's health. It's going to get more frightening when he kicks off and leaves a large, well-organized reactionary paramilitary group floating about Britain, without centralised Royal leadership; British Klan, anyone? Oddly enough, he favored lowering the property requirements to vote, and was a proponent of change in that one area, although his stated motives were not altruistic; he believed that the poorer, less educated segments of society would be inclined to go along with whatever the King said, and saw extending the franchise as a way to take power away from Parliament and return it to the Crown. He could be considered a class traitor by some, since he was also on record as thinking that the landed nobility were increasingly irrelevant and that true power now belonged to bankers and industrialists, but that alone doesn't make him an egalitarian or friend of the working person. Still, Ernest probably winds up working with the Whigs more than the Tories.
Response to the Irish famine in 1845 will be even worse than OTL; Victoria was at least interested in helping. Ernest doesn't have much use for Catholic subjects. Nastiness echoes down through the ages.
I dont think that works - if Ernest doesnt become King of the UK, the union will break, because he WILL become King of Hannover. Trying to change the succession laws there is an invitation to the German Confederation to apply Federal Execution on Hannover.; I suspect he'd give Hanover a Parliament of its own on the British model (he's promised it OTL, and I choose to take him at his word).
Excellent point, Susano...hm. Is there any way to modify the succession in Hanover, do you know?
This. On what basis could he be skipped? There would have to be a suitable reason why he'd be barred from succession (e.g. James the Old Pretender being barred for being Catholic), not just "we don't like you".How do you propose to change the ENGLISH law of succession?
How do you propose to change the ENGLISH law of succession? You can't hand-wave that around, and if anyone tried you have a very real danger of civil war, especially as Ernest has very strong links to the Orange Order lodges.