: Louis II Sovereign Pr.of Monaco ---
: Pss.Charlotte --- Pr.Rainier III Sovereign
: Pr.of Monaco
This example doesn't really count, for two reasons: 1) I meant to focus only on women who might have become QUEENS; otherwise, if one were to expand the discussion to other types of sovereigns, the list would be quite extensive (I'm sure). 2) Princess Charlotte herself was a dynast -- not the spouse of a dynast who was in line to succeed as sovereign, but died before he could assume the throne. As it was, she herself stood to become a sovereign, but for her renunciation of succession rights (thanks to political reasons).
As for the other Charlotte: I'm not sure if her husband qualified as a genuine emperor. The Mexican monarchy was a question mark, and Archduke Maximilian got placed on the throne as a puppet figure to the French emperor.
Princess Sophie of Bavaria actually wrought her own situation: she would have become empress of Austria-Hungary, had she not persuaded her husband to renounce his rights in favor of their eldest son. As it was, Archduke Franz Karl would have succeeded as emperor, but for the said renunciation.
That being said, had not Emperor Ferdinand been deposed, Sophie still would not have become empress, even if her husband had not renounced his rights. The reason is that she died in 1872, three years before her brother-in-law.
In this, she would have been like Princess Sybilla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha later on: even if her husband hadn't tragically lost his life in a plane crash, she still would never have become queen of Sweden. The reason is that she predeceased her father-in-law (King Gustaf VI Adolf) by a year.
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