I am thinking is it possible for one of the Qing Emperors to marry a Bourbon or Habsburg from Spain.
I am thinking is it possible for one of the Qing Emperors to marry a Bourbon or Habsburg from Spain.
On the Qing side, i can’t imagine they would make her an empress as that was reserved for Manchu women, it’d probably be something like noble consort or imperial concubine. On the european side I think you’d need a Europe that’s much more dependent on Qing goodwill whether that’s because the Qing are straight up sailing to France or because of some sort of diplomatic isolation in Europe blocking their commercial interests in the New World, Christendom and the Islamic world, so they convince the Chinese to let their merchants in in exchange for becoming tributary states, surrendering up a princess and accepting the Qing emperors status as son of heaven. Idk it’s a long shot but this i think is hard to do sans asb help.
Unless you are a Mongol.Numerous Qing Empresses were Mongols.Chinese emperors did not marry foreigners as equals in the way European monarchs did.