WI British German personal union.

So the pod is that queen Victoria gives birth to boys with haemophilia and they all die before they can have kids her eldest daughter still marries Fredrick of Prussia. And after she dies the crown is passed on to Wilhelm II of Germany as his mother died 4 years earlier, if this happens would it stop ww1 or would the war happen with another alliance system and if so which countries would be on which side.
 
It may not stop WWI or affect it, but it does put Germany and the UK in quite a pickle. Which one gives up the royal family? Both in OTL used their own and each other's royal family's to good use in propaganda... the American propaganda against the evil Kaiser won't happen if he's also the British king.
 
The age of personal unions was pretty much over at this point unless between the motherland and dominion.I'm pretty sure that there won't be a personal union and that Wilhelm will most likely pass over his rights to the British throne to a younger son or younger brother.
 
At this point IIRC the British Parliament has final say on the succession and I don't think they would be all that keen on an absentee monarch, ironic considering that's what they are to the Dominions but I digress. A strong possibility is that they either skip Wilhelm and go for a younger brother or perhaps look to a different branch altogether such as George V of Hanover's son Prince Ernest Augustus 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale.
 
At this point IIRC the British Parliament has final say on the succession and I don't think they would be all that keen on an absentee monarch, ironic considering that's what they are to the Dominions but I digress. A strong possibility is that they either skip Wilhelm and go for a younger brother or perhaps look to a different branch altogether such as George V of Hanover's son Prince Ernest Augustus 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale.
I think the Parliament will only do this as a last resort when diplomacy fails.They will probably diplomatically ask Wilhelm to either abdicate the German throne and come to reign as king or leave it to a younger son or brother.I think it's pretty clear to all that absentee monarchs does work,which was why Edward VII voluntarily ceded his rights to Saxe-Coburg to his younger brother in 1863.
 
It may not stop WWI or affect it, but it does put Germany and the UK in quite a pickle. Which one gives up the royal family? Both in OTL used their own and each other's royal family's to good use in propaganda... the American propaganda against the evil Kaiser won't happen if he's also the British king.

Weren't the Kaiser, Tsar and King of England cousins, anyway?
 
I think the most likely outcome is whether the King of the United Kingdom would be to willing to fight against his father or older brother.Another thing is that this king would be fighting against the country he grew up with.Will he be willing to do that.I'd imagine we would have some sort of abdication crisis if the Government of the day tried to force the issue.
 
I think the alliances of Europe were in constant change, this union could be enough to push Britain into allying with Germany for a potential First World War, it is always surprising Britain allied with France considering The amount of near wars they had in nineteenth century
 
I think the most likely outcome is whether the King of the United Kingdom would be to willing to fight against his father or older brother.Another thing is that this king would be fighting against the country he grew up with.Will he be willing to do that.I'd imagine we would have some sort of abdication crisis if the Government of the day tried to force the issue.


But would Britain and Germany have quarreled?

In this situation, you probably don't get the Naval Race, as the Kaiser will probably take the attitude that "I'm the General, you're the Admiral" in the Hohenzollern family.
 
By the 20th Century, the UK had been so supreme in world affairs for so long that their sense of superiority meant they would be seriously nervous about having a foreign monarch. They were seriously nervous about Prince Philip being too foreign even though he had spent most his life in England, was completely culturally English, and had a proud career in the Royal Navy. And that was for the consort not the monarch. My suspicion is they'd find the nearest candidate that was of good character and Anglo enough.
 
That Victoria was not predeceased by all of her sons often sounds a bit ASB anyway, especially given the mortality rate of the House of Hannover.
That the future Edward VII did not die young of some social disease was not through lack of trying, and the Duke of Connaught had plenty of near misses it his military career.

Scotland and England had the same Monarch for a century without having a unified government, so in theory it is workable.
Wilhelm II was a massive Anglophile and was at his Grandmother's bedside at her passing, and his most prized possession was a desk made from the timbers of HMS Victory, which is more than slightly ironic.
And the British Monarchy had very little active power by the 20th century, so some sort of regency with Wilhelm's brother Heinrich might be practical, the British Kings would do the same thing when they ruled Hannover, although Parliament did its best to ignore its existence altogether.

On the other hand ... it would make an interesting AH to have an Anglo-German Empire, and one of the few circumstances where another country might be in danger of losing a war. (Just work through the criteria, naval power, secure logistical base, massive army etc.).
 
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So, this is just going to be tricky to manage - Bertie got married off only a few years after his sister. The highest the Kaiser ever ranked in the British succession was sixth, right after his birth. I don't think anybody who ranked that low has ever succeeded to the British throne under the Act of Settlement (Victoria was fifth at the time of her birth, and everyone ahead of her was a childless middle aged-to elderly man).

Even if you manage it, I think butterflies are going to destroy this timeline. If the Queen's sons are all sickly, then everyone knows Vicky is likely to inherit, and parliament won't let her marry the Crown Prince of Prussia. She'd be married to some landless younger son who's willing to live in England.

Eligible protestant Princes from royal families around 1855:

1) Prince Albrecht of Prussia, nephew of the King, four years older than Vicky

2) Prince Oscar of Sweden (OTL King Oscar II), younger son of the King, 11 years older than Vicky

3.) Prince Wilhelm of Denmark (OTL King George I of Greece), second son of Prince Christian, 5 years younger than Vicky

There's some possibilities from non-royal houses (a younger brother of the Grand Duke of Baden, notably), but Prince Albrecht actually looks by some margin the best candidate. So likely you don't get a personal union, but you could easily get a Hohenzollern cadet on the throne.
 
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