I vote for a danish match for Victoria. I like Christian of *insert the long name here* he seemed to be a capable ruler.
I was kinda going by her actions vis the Bedchamber crisis and similar. I don't really see her as a shrinking violet even at this young age.
I see it as her reacting to parliamentary request to remarry rather than initiating changing the succession.
Which is fair enough.But she learned from her mistakes and never made the same one twice (that I recall) and she grew up with the succession a near-crisis, only averted by her own birth. Parliament isn't going to request she remarry - the PM will remind her of her duty. Big difference in approach. She's mindful of her duties and position, especially this early in her reign (she was certainly fast to remind Albert). She'll do her duty, remarry and have more children.
She won't marry another ruler. That means uniting the countries or a complicated, long-distance relationship, which she won't like. She'll marry another Albert - that is to say, another Prince far enough down the ladder to make his Kingship unlikely.
Any ideas who that could be?As a Belgian of course I am contractually obliged to say that if and/or who Victoria marries again depends on the long term plans of her 'dear uncle' Leopold, who at this time is Leopold I, King of Belgium and generally revered as 'The Old Oracle of Europe'. Leo not only already arranged for her to marry Albert, but 20 years beforehand had arranged for his widowed sister to marry Vic's father and therefore for Victoria coming into being in the first place. I am pretty sure old Leo would waste no time figuring out the combination of Victoria +X that is most advantageous for England, Saxony, Belgium, Europe in general and not the least himself. Then he would find some way to make the two genuinely like each other, like he did with cousin Albert.
Any ideas who that could be?
With Ernest and Victoria being estranged and Ernest's extra-marital affairs being an open secret among the nobility and Parliament, Victoria turns her attention elsewhere due to her enjoyment of sex - and conducts a long-standing affair with her personal attendant, John Brown. This too is an open secret amongst the family - and she may have even produced issue via Brown. There is some discussion that the male issue could be passed off as Ernest's own
The Civil War in America will become interesting if i say so.Would Victoria, only having been married to Albert for about two years, be less heartbroken? Or would she mourn him as she did in her later years, never remarry and when she died in 1901, Victoria the Princess Royal would be crowned Queen?
If she went into such a deep depression at the start of her reign, would her popularity drop to bigger lows than they had before? Would this place the monarchy in jeopardy?