Posted by José on 21/1/2011, 17:52:45, 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.
The question is : Would the british people be willing to fight for their king's personal backyard ?
A couple of monts ago, there was a simillar discussion on the Benelux MB regarding the relations between Britain and the Netherlands under William III...
How were relations between Britain and Hannover until William IV ?
AFAIK those were two independent kingdoms ruled by the same king but each one had their own institutions, armies, tax systems apart from each other.
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: 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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