Year of 4 Empoerors.

1888 was a memorable year due to 2 German emperors dying, thus getting the name year of 3 emperors, so WI Wilhelm II also died lets say he fell down some stairs couple months after he's emperor, how would this effect Germany especially as the new emperor is 6 years old, Bismarck running the show for about 10 years would surely help.
 
The German-British Alliance at last

1888 was a memorable year due to 2 German emperors dying, thus getting the name year of 3 emperors, so WI Wilhelm II also died lets say he fell down some stairs couple months after he's emperor, how would this effect Germany especially as the new emperor is 6 years old, Bismarck running the show for about 10 years would surely help.

How about this possible tweak. Bismarck is old, and at that time no one knows his time left on earth. Perhaps he looks to the future and the well being of the child William III. So he enters an uneasy but possibly necessary alliance with his long time nemesis, the Widow Empress Frederick, (Victoria), the child Emperor's grandmother, sensing that after he is gone, perhaps Germany's best interests and that of the boy Emperor lie in a cordial friendship if not alliance with the Empress Frederick" mother Queen Victoria and later Edward VII of Great Britain. This would have eased the constant jockeying he had to do prevent a two front war and may have assured Britain would not ally itself with France.

After-all, had a healthy Emperor Frederick III lived long enough, he did not make it a secret that he would have preferred such an alliance.
 
What's the point of these dynastic combinations ?

Dynastic alliances almost never prevented wars and this uselessness was all the more obvious as time west by and States modernized.

With or without cousins and gramparents on thrones, if 2 countries have rival interests, They Will have a conflict, be it just a diplomatic conflict or a military one.

If Germany tries to become dominant in Europe, it will have a conflict with Britain because it will collide with Britain's multisecular policy to prevent any country becoming dominant on the continent.
 
It is what it is.

What's the point of these dynastic combinations ?

Dynastic alliances almost never prevented wars and this uselessness was all the more obvious as time west by and States modernized.

With or without cousins and gramparents on thrones, if 2 countries have rival interests, They Will have a conflict, be it just a diplomatic conflict or a military one.

If Germany tries to become dominant in Europe, it will have a conflict with Britain because it will collide with Britain's multisecular policy to prevent any country becoming dominant on the continent.

Your point is well noted and realistic, but much of the stuff in here is hypothetical and in the end, that is the way many of the monarchs felt in those days and use of dynastic alliances were an option.
 
1888 was a memorable year due to 2 German emperors dying, thus getting the name year of 3 emperors, so WI Wilhelm II also died lets say he fell down some stairs couple months after he's emperor, how would this effect Germany especially as the new emperor is 6 years old, Bismarck running the show for about 10 years would surely help.

Then the six year old dies. Most peaceful Year of Five Emperors (193) ever.
 
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