WI a legitimist French restoration in the 1920s?

Here's a fun what-if I stumbled upon while browsing Wikipedia. Turns out thatJaime, Duke of Madrid was the Legitimist pretender to France and the Carlist pretender to Spain in the early 20th century.

The POD: the Spartacists take over Germany in 1919. This creates an extreme phobia of the left in France. After a worse Depression hits, a reactionary monarchist coalition takes power in France (ALA Mussolini) with Jamie as its leader. In the late 1920s Jamie becomes King Jacques I of France. He survives past 1931 due to living in better conditions in France.

Then in Spain, the Second Republic is established and Alfonso XIII is executed before he can flee. His sons are forced to flee and renounce all rights to spain. The Spanish Civil War takes on a different character, with French intervention on the side of the Nationalists.

The Nationalists win the civil war and drive out the republicans. The need a new king, and first in line is Duke Jamie of Spain. He is crowned in Madrid in 1941, and thus has become king of both France and Spain.

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What do you think? Totally ASB, I know, but it was fun writing it. :D
 

Susano

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Its more rightful to say he was the ultralegitimist pretender. The mainstream legitimists and the Orelanists were united when the French Bourbon mainline died out. The Spanish Bourbon line is dynastcially senior to Bourbon-Orleans, but by the treaty that ended the War of the Spanish Succession bared from the French throne, so the claim went to Bourbon-Orleans by default. Some hardcore legitimists, though, didnt want any Orleans king, and hence upheld the claim of the Spanish line - and, since they were conservatives, of course of the Carlist branch, not the Isabellist branch. Hence why the French ultralegitimist claim and the Carlist claim united.

So in short, France would rather install an Orleans. Spain might install a Carlist, seeing as Carlist supporters made up large aprts of Francos supporters, but IOTL Juan Carlos became King by the grace of Franco, and hes an Isabellist, so even thats not assured. But France most definitly would have an Orleans (or alternatively of coruse, a Bonaparte) as Monarch.
 
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