I was recently reading about the life of King William IV of England and was interested to find that he had a lucky escape at the 1813 Battle of Antwerp. How, in your opinion, might history have changed had he not dodged this particular bullet?
Fair point, but Kent and Clarence weren't that close and unless Kent had married Queen Adelaide (was she a more desirable match?) instead of the Duchess of Kent (can't remember who she was before the marriage) I don't see how the death of his brother 17 odd years before would have had butterfly effects affecting Victoria. Adelaide was probably infertile as William IV had no problem at all creating children with Mrs Jordan. If Kent had married her instead then "Arise King Ernest". Um... now that would be interesting
I was recently reading about the life of King William IV of England and was interested to find that he had a lucky escape at the 1813 Battle of Antwerp. How, in your opinion, might history have changed had he not dodged this particular bullet?
I was recently reading about the life of King William IV of England and was interested to find that he had a lucky escape at the 1813 Battle of Antwerp. How, in your opinion, might history have changed had he not dodged this particular bullet?
Mea culpa- chalk that one up to a slip of the pen*?No such Monarch existed in our time line.
The last King of England was William III after that the Acts of Union eliminated the Kingdom of England replacing it (and the Kingdom of Scotland) with the Kingdom of Great Britain. William IV ruled two Kingdoms, the Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland and then the next Act of Union turned that into the United Kingdom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_monarchs#Timeline_of_English_monarchs