What if little Prince Willy grew up a healthy and strapping young lad. What historical significance would this have?
What if little Prince Willy grew up a healthy and strapping young lad. What historical significance would this have?
William IV of England (b.1689: d.1751) m. Henriette Louise de Bourbon (b.1703: d.1772) (a)
1a) Stillborn Girl (c.1720)
2a) Anne Sophie of England (b.1722)
3a) Miscarriage (c.1723)
4a) Miscarriage (c.1725)
5a) George Charles, Prince of Wales (b.1727)
6a) Stillborn Girl (c.1728)
7a) James Frederick, Duke of York (b.1730)
8a) Miscarriage (c.1731)
9a) Eleanor Christine of England (b.1733)
10a) Miscarriage (c.1735)
11a) Miscarriage (c.1736)
12a) Miscarriage (c.1738)
13a) Catherine Louise of England (b.1740: d.1743)
Okay, so William marries Maria Amalia of Nassau-Dietz. All we know about her is her year of birth and year of death, not who she married IOTL, if she ever did.
Another interesting implication I thought of is, did Prince George, William's father, ever give up his hereditary rights to the Danish throne? If so, the future monarchs of Britain might have a claim to Denmark-Norway.
Maria Amalia was Queen Mary's goddaughter AFAIK, but it could've been one of her sisters though. Although having read what I have lately about Anne and William III's fraught relationship (plus the tenseness of William's own relationship with George (due to the fact that George outranked William before the latter became king)) I can't see a Dutch marriage happening before George dies (Holland and Denmark were traditional rivals IIRC), and even then Anne might decide that she doesn't like a Dutch daughter-in-law out of respect for her husband's memory.
As to Prince George's rights, to the best of my knowledge, it was never considered necessary that he did, since his brother and nephew clearly produced enough kids in that department to render his succession to the Danish throne inevitable during his/his wife/probably his son's lifetime.
However, if Denmark still runs as OTL, then we have the fun and games cropping up in the 19th century when the Danish main line is going extinct and the next in line so-to-speak is also the king of globespanning empire
Probably one of William's British younger grandsons/great-grandsons succeeds to the Danish throne, while his eldest stays in London.