WI: Queen Victoria weds Martin Van Buren

One would probably have to resign or abdicate. Probably van Buren would have resigned, but it would have been complicated either way.
 
Queen Victoria will not abdicate her god given right.

Would Britain gain anything from marrying an American politician?
 
Queen Victoria will not abdicate her god given right.

Would Britain gain anything from marrying an American politician?

No, but more importantly it would be impossible for Van Buren to pose a threat to Britain. America has the advantages of offering prominent figures who dont have issues with the succession.

That being said I think the consequences will be more in America than Britain. It is possible for there to be some Anglophilia emerge in the North asa response. This may make abolitionism less dangerous in the eyes of some but also likely will increase hibernophobia
 
I think too this could lead to a sort of commonwealth situation for the United States. Have the British monarchy as a figurehead, and the American government as an autonomous power.
 
I think too this could lead to a sort of commonwealth situation for the United States. Have the British monarchy as a figurehead, and the American government as an autonomous power.

That would be cool, but how could you get Americans to go along with it.
 

When
is this scenario to take place? A sitting US President contemplating wedding the Queen of England would be impeached or forced to resign. The Queen is not allowed to be partisan in politics, she's to be above it. So, either they wed after he's president or he never becomes president. (But, since he was political, I doubt that Victoria would have been allowed to wed him: we'd get an Edward VIII variant a century earlier.) I doubt she'd abdicate. I doubt Van Buren wants to play second fiddle to the Queen.

That would be cool, but how could you get Americans to go along with it.

Less than a century after the war of Independence? You couldn't. Van Buren would have to take his bad self to England and stay there.
 
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