Posted by Johan on 21/1/2011, 17:25:34, in reply to "Re: Queen Adelaide?"
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If William IV had been succeeded by a male heir and thus keeping the personal union of the British crown with that of Hanover would have impacted the balance of power in the German territories.
The king of Hanover would have had the might of the British empire at his disposal. I would even go so far as to guess that the Prussian kings would not have made it to emperors. A new version of the Holy Roman Empire with the Habsburg emperor or a different kind of construction without a real head of state.
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: I really do not think if Britain and Hanover
: would have stayed linked together that would
: have prevented the creation of the German
: Empire. After the Holy Roman Empire had been
: dissolved many within the defunct empire
: were wanting to unite the German lands. The
: question was how to do that?
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: Such a pity! If only one of her children had
: survived the course of the British monarchy
: would have been completely different.
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: Hanover would have remained linked to
: Britain. There would probably have been no
: German Empire and possibly no World Wars.
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