WI/PC: Queen Anne Has Several Surviving Children

It likely WOULD continue.

Fair enough

The US of A stays british because a true heir instead of dirty German pretenders can actually sympathize with the colonists, and there probably wont be a seven years war, and we'll all sing God save the King/Queen.

I can never remember what the Stuart policy towards the American colonies was, but considering the propensity of the Tudors-Stuarts to be rather mulish/bullheaded, I wouldn't put it past that some son or grandson of Anna Gloria is going to do something stupid to upset the colonial apple cart.

How would Irish unionism fit into this?
How early did it appear in Ireland?
Would Ireland appear to bring in enough profit to offset the apparent loss to Scotland?
Etc etc.
(As you can tell I'm a fan of triple union tls!)

Well, interestingly enough, Ireland might be brought into a union with England sooner than Scotland. While Scotland is the homeland of the Stuarts - as long as there's a descendant of Anne on the throne, the north could be safe. Ireland, however, is Catholic, so there might be fears that James II/III will land there and whip the populace up into an anti-English frenzy. There was a thread once where James II reconquered Ireland, planning to use it as a springboard to reconquer England-Scotland - which never happened TTL, and forged a kingdom of Ireland independent of Britain. English politics might be wary of just such a thing happening and be interested in binding Ireland still closer to London rather than Rome or St. Germaine.
 
Another reason to bind Ireland closer is that London is probably going to be less antagonistic towards the Catholic majority than the Ascendancy.
 
Another reason to bind Ireland closer is that London is probably going to be less antagonistic towards the Catholic majority than the Ascendancy.

How so? I don't recall Anne being in anyway more conciliatory towards the Irish Catholics than either her immediate predecessors or her Hannoverian successors.
 
How so? I don't recall Anne being in anyway more conciliatory towards the Irish Catholics than either her immediate predecessors or her Hannoverian successors.

This is nothing to do with the Monarch but rather the Parliaments. Generally speaking the British government was in favour of a more conciliatory approach in the 18th and 19th century to the Catholic majority than the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy. So it's not inconceivable that in the aftermath of a revolt you might get an Act of Union forced through with one of the goals being overruling those Irish MPs.
 
This is nothing to do with the Monarch but rather the Parliaments. Generally speaking the British government was in favour of a more conciliatory approach in the 18th and 19th century to the Catholic majority than the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy. So it's not inconceivable that in the aftermath of a revolt you might get an Act of Union forced through with one of the goals being overruling those Irish MPs.

Makes sense. And if we don't see Anne's son/grandson shirking an active role in government as did the first two Georges (not saying they did, just that in comparison to the Stuarts and George III they were a lot more laissez-faire in regards to policy), then the monarch might still retain some of their powers lost OTL.

As to the kids marriages - how likely are Catholic marriages for some of them? I know @VVD0D95 asked about the possibility of William, Duke of Gloucester marrying an Austrian archduchess, but I was wondering more something like one of his sisters, Mary or Anne Sophie marrying Archduke Karl of Austria; or one of them marrying the prince of Portugal (Catherine of Bragança was regent for her nephew, so I could see her pushing an English match), and returning Tangiers to Portugal, or Gloucester marrying a Portuguese infanta for the ridiculous dowry she'd bring.
 
I don't think you are going to see an heir or the spare marry a Catholic, certainly not among Anne's children, the lesson of the last three Royal Marriage (Charlie I & II plus James II) about Catholic marriages being massively unpopular and theologically tricky has thoroughly sunk in. I think you'd see the British Oldenburgs follow a Hannoverian approach of marrying North German or Scandinavian Protestant Houses. Though I wonder how 18th century Britain would take a Russian Orthodox marriage?
 
I don't think you are going to see an heir or the spare marry a Catholic, certainly not among Anne's children, the lesson of the last three Royal Marriage (Charlie I & II plus James II) about Catholic marriages being massively unpopular and theologically tricky has thoroughly sunk in. I think you'd see the British Oldenburgs follow a Hannoverian approach of marrying North German or Scandinavian Protestant Houses. Though I wonder how 18th century Britain would take a Russian Orthodox marriage?

Fair enough. However, I do wonder if there's less incentive for the Scots/Irish to rebel (Oldenburgs being dynastically closer than the Hannoverians) if it wouldn't affect the royal marriage policy. I agree that they're unpopular (although Catherine of Bragança was the most popular of the three Catholic queens), but it's hardly as though the German marriages of the Georges were any more popular. George I's marriage arrangement caused a scandal, and the following consorts (Caroline of Ansbach, Charlotte of Mecklenburg, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen) were popular in a swing-and-miss variety (Auguste of Saxe-Gotha and Caroline of Brunswick weren't - Caroline basically simply because she was the figurehead of anyone who didn't like her husband (I'm looking at you, Jane Austen).
 
In terms of Oldenburg vs Hanoverian popularity I don't think it would have had as significant a difference as some make out. Dynastically the Pretenders are always going to have a "stronger" claim than any post 1688 claimant for those who really care about that. While George I's foreignness, poor English and preference for Hanover was an issue the motives of Jacobites had more to do with religion and political differences than the birthplace of Monarch, the number of people who opposed German born George over dynastically German King William of the House of Oldenburg would be relatively small. As for Royal marriages they are always a nightmare but I think the successive troubles of Charles I & II plus James II made the point sufficiently well that it won't be an issue for at least a couple of generations post Anne.
 
In terms of Oldenburg vs Hanoverian popularity I don't think it would have had as significant a difference as some make out. Dynastically the Pretenders are always going to have a "stronger" claim than any post 1688 claimant for those who really care about that. While George I's foreignness, poor English and preference for Hanover was an issue the motives of Jacobites had more to do with religion and political differences than the birthplace of Monarch, the number of people who opposed German born George over dynastically German King William of the House of Oldenburg would be relatively small. As for Royal marriages they are always a nightmare but I think the successive troubles of Charles I & II plus James II made the point sufficiently well that it won't be an issue for at least a couple of generations post Anne.

So the king will not be marrying a Catholic. But what of his sisters? The Habsburgs sought a Danish match for Josef I OTL, but the princess in question refused to convert. Mary/Anne Sophie are both Danish princesses (dynastically), and technically it's a lot closer (IIRC) between Anglican and Catholic than Lutheran and Catholic. Plus, William III and Anne were both on the Habsburg side in the War of the Spanish Succession (kinda by default, I guess, what with France supporting James II/III), so would they be interested in wedding one of the duchess of Cumberland's daughters to a Habsburg archduke?
 
18th century Anglicanism before the Oxford Movement was a long way away from peak Counter-Reformation Catholicism being practised in Austria at the time but the bigger issue is the proven poor fertility of the English Royals. Even if William avoids meningitis and has a couple of surviving siblings the odds for his fertility aren't great. Repeating Anne's marriage i.e. to a younger son of a Protestant House seems sensible certainly for the eldest daughter. The only scenario where a Catholic match might be acceptable is if William and any hypothetical brother have already produced heirs by the time she becomes of marriageable age so the risk of the Crown going to her Catholic Hapsburg children is extremely low.
 
18th century Anglicanism before the Oxford Movement was a long way away from peak Counter-Reformation Catholicism being practised in Austria at the time but the bigger issue is the proven poor fertility of the English Royals. Even if William avoids meningitis and has a couple of surviving siblings the odds for his fertility aren't great. Repeating Anne's marriage i.e. to a younger son of a Protestant House seems sensible certainly for the eldest daughter. The only scenario where a Catholic match might be acceptable is if William and any hypothetical brother have already produced heirs by the time she becomes of marriageable age so the risk of the Crown going to her Catholic Hapsburg children is extremely low.

That's why I figured the younger of Anne's elder two daughters (hell, even her third daughter) for marriage to a Habsburg second son rather than say the Princess Royal. As to the poor fertility, if the Habsburgs had been looking at that, one would think that neither Josef I/Karl VI's wife would've made the cut, since both of them came from a brood of four kids (three surviving infancy, but all girls).
 
It all depends on how many of Anne's kids you have survive. If all her live births live then you have

Mary I 1685
Anne Sophia 1686
William 1689
Mary II 1690 (presumably called something else)
George 1692

Mary I and Anne Sophia are viable if young options for Joseph I (born 1678) while all of them work for Karl VI (born 1685). The issue with a marriage with Joseph is his marriage is going to be decided in the 1695-1700 period when William of Orange in still King and Princes William and George are both too young for anyone to be confident that they'll make it to adulthood and reproduce. So Mary I and Anne Sophia probably aren't available to Joseph. However by the time Karl is looking for a marriage c. 1705 Mary I and Anne should be safely married off to Protestant Princes and hopefully would have Protestant kids knocking Mary II down the succession, she would be the right age and make diplomatic sense so unless she has been promised elsewhere it would be an attractive option.
 
It all depends on how many of Anne's kids you have survive. If all her live births live then you have

Mary I 1685
Anne Sophia 1686
William 1689
Mary II 1690 (presumably called something else)
George 1692

Mary I and Anne Sophia are viable if young options for Joseph I (born 1678) while all of them work for Karl VI (born 1685). The issue with a marriage with Joseph is his marriage is going to be decided in the 1695-1700 period when William of Orange in still King and Princes William and George are both too young for anyone to be confident that they'll make it to adulthood and reproduce. So Mary I and Anne Sophia probably aren't available to Joseph. However by the time Karl is looking for a marriage c. 1705 Mary I and Anne should be safely married off to Protestant Princes and hopefully would have Protestant kids knocking Mary II down the succession, she would be the right age and make diplomatic sense so unless she has been promised elsewhere it would be an attractive option.

What about Elizabeth for Mary II? Henrietta or Katherine (while both nearer family-wse) might have awkward Catholic connotations. From what I've read, both Mary and Anne Sophie were both healthy - in comparison to Gloucester - and their brother's illness was limited to him and him alone. Of course, it would be fun if we got a King George I who wasn't a Hannoverian (I figure since Georgie died shortly after birth OTL, one can sort of make him into whatever character you want). Maybe another Henry VIII type succession: William is Anne's heir apparent, but dies before her without kids; George succeeds her instead.
 
What if Anne only had surviving girls?
Presumably named Mary, Anne(-Sophie), and Elizabeth.
Who would prospective consorts?

An interesting idea. I wonder if a Danish second son - Carl or Vilhelm - might be proposed. An ideal would be for the Stuarts to go full-bore Habsburgs, marry Mary/Anne-Sophie to James Francis Edward (as a way of preventing him claiming the throne in his wife's lifetime - Queen Anne had a plan (according to Fraser's bio of Louis XIV) to do this with her half-sister and George II as a way of keeping Georg I and the Electress Sophia out), but I can't say it would go over well. Maybe the Electress Sophia successfully convinces William III at Het Loo to let JFES succeed, and William decides to screw Anne over by marrying JFES to Anne's eldest daughter. It's an almost ASB scenario I guess...
 
Would Parliament have accepted JFES even if he converted?
I've been looking for available Stuart descended relatives prior to the Act of Succession who could at least convert and aside from already Protestant George II there's only JFES or Louis Otto Prince of Salm and the latter marries July 1700.
So it does seem other Protestant Princes have a look in.
 
Would Parliament have accepted JFES even if he converted?
I've been looking for available Stuart descended relatives prior to the Act of Succession who could at least convert and aside from already Protestant George II there's only JFES or Louis Otto Prince of Salm and the latter marries July 1700.
So it does seem other Protestant Princes have a look in.

My money would be on a Danish prince - although there was a TL a few years ago - where Anne's female line survives and succeeds. And all the hi-jinx that ensue from that...; or George II (for the same reason that Anne considered La Consolatrice OTL).
 
Queen Anne was the last monarch to exercise the royal veto. If she was succeeded by one of her own children, it might continue to be exercised.
 
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