WI: A Different Hanoverian Line In the Act of Settlement

Through a series of very bad circumstances (a mix of conversions to Catholicism and cases of infertility), upon the death of Prince William of Gloucester, the distantly related Sophia of Hanover and her descendants were rather surpringly the closest Protestants after Queen Anne in the British succession, skipping all the descendants of Sophia's Catholic older siblings. Many TL ideas just make William of Gloucester survive of have Prince Rupert have descendants on the throne. I have a more obscure potential POD for my TL idea that involves another older brother of Sophia, Edward of Palatine-Simmern. Prince Edward did actually have daughters irl but as he had converted to Catholicism, all of them were also Catholic and not likely to take the British throne. One of them, Bemedicta Henrietta, was married to the likewise Catholic convert, John Frederick of Brunswick-Lunenberg (actually uncle of George I). They had several daughters, all Catholic. However per my POD, Benedicta dies ~50 years earlier, in the 1670s (in childbirth or some other mishap) and as a result, when John dies in 1679, rather than the children being brought to France with the mother and brought up Catholic, they stay in Hanover with their father's family (I.e. the more prominent OTL Hanovers) and are raised presumably as Protestants. This puts their daughter Charlotte first in line after Anne (instead of her own cousin George) begging the question, who would Charlotte have married in the meantime (Modena like OTL seems out) and if like OTL she has a son who lives to 1780 what is a British ruler with a 66 year reign in the 1700s going to look like? So from one death does this chain of events seem plausible or interesting to people? Any comments, speculation, suggestions?
 
Could make for interesting times. I think if Charlotte isn't yet married by the time she becomes Anne's heiress presumptive, Anne/William is going to feel they have a say in who she marries. An interesting match might be one of her Danish cousins, a second son of the King of Denmark (who also just happens to be the older brother of Anne's husband), or a match to a suitably low Protestant first born prince. Maybe her sister, Henriëtte marries Modena instead, but the future Holy Roman Empress being sister to Queen Charlotte I of England would be a major boost to Wilhelmine Amalie.

Although, Eduard also had a son - born on Dec. 27 1650, and died in 1651 without a name - so him surviving could be equally interesting.
 
Mhm - the son surviving could be interesting too, but as he would presumably be Catholic like his father he's not likely to be in line. Timing wise I suspect that the marriage is going to occur in the 1690s, when Charlotte is still an irrelevant Hanoverian princess; who seems likely then?
 
Maybe the Act of Settlement can be amended to allow Ed Jnr a place so long as he is married to a Protestant princess. And then, the world's your oyster in that regard - although, interestingly enough, his very existence would butterfly away the Neuburg claim to the Palatinate, so he'd probably be married as heir presumptive to the Palatinate long before the British succession is even in question. That said, perhaps one of the princesses originally considered as a second wife for Karl II by his father, if he could push a divorce from the Danish girl through. (IIRC the candidates were a princess of Mecklenburg-Gustrow, a princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and someone else). That way, even if dad's Catholic, Parliament might be more friendly to a half-Protestant, second-born Edward VII than to the idea of a PU with Hannover or his older, Catholic brother.
 
Mhm. So this would create a British heir and solve the Palatinate succession problem right?

Something like that. Eduard I of the Palatinate might be Catholic, but married at least to a Protestant wife, and his one son succeeds as king of England and another as elector, if Parliament in the event of such a PU seeming likely, passes a law to say that the "imperial crowns of England, Scotland, France and Ireland cannot, be ever held in jointure with the crown of another nation, since it is in contravention for the happiness of these kingdoms"
 
Mhm. At the very least then we have a ruler who isn't tethered to land in the HRE; and maybe more likely to be brought up speaking English?
 
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