Posted by Johan on 14/5/2008, 9:00:52, in reply to "Re: Renunciation of rights"
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I think Willem IV would have married Alexandra of Denmark, Alice of Britain or Helena of Britain.
In case his marriage would have been childless half-sister Wilhelmina would not have had succession-rights so Willem IV would have been succeeded by his aunt Sophie of the Netherlands, Grand Duchess of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach or one of her offspring. Most likely her daughter princess Marie-Alexandrine married to a prince of Reuss.
The sons of the couple were the ones in line of succession between the death of Sophie in 1897 and the birth of Juliana in 1909.
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: assuming that the youngest Willem had deceased
: childless, as he did irl;
: who would have succeeded in the dynasty
: after all the three sons of his father died?
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: would a Wilhelmina, born very late and of
: the second marriage of the excluded guy,
: have her successional rights?
:
: (assuming he had married a second time in
: that parallel timeline...)
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: Of course, drafting the alternative timeline
: further...
: There would be a somewhat natural assumption
: that the new Willem III would have been
: allowed to marry comtesse Limburg-Styrum and
: that just possibly they could have
: procreated, produced heirs...
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: --Previous Message--
: ...
: In 1848 the prince of Orange actually wrote
: a letter to the king that he after the
: changes in the constitution he no longer
: wished to be in line of succession and left
: for Britain. During his stay the king
: (Willem II) died. Allthough the government
: was uware of the heir's unwillingness he had
: succeeded upon his father's death according
: to the constitution. They dispatched a
: minister the new king liked in order to
: persuade him to not resign imediately in
: favor of his still minor son.
: The wife of the new king and mother of the
: young son had to wait a couple of days to
: find out if her husband or son would be the
: next reign. Willem III was persuaded and
: would reign for 42 years. His son Willem
: (Wiwill) would die before his father and not
: reign at all. Had his father's letter been
: legal Wiwill would have been Willem III and
: would have reigned from the age of 9 in 1849
: till the age of 39 (1879).
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