Posted by William F on 21/1/2011, 18:10:12, in reply to "Re: Queen Adelaide?"
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It is interesting to think about. We know that Bismark manufactured a series of wars to unite the German states. Had the King of Hanover also been the King of the UK at that time what would Bismark have done? Who knows? Maybe at that time it would have been stabilizing for the balance of power if a new German Empire had been linked with Britain?
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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.
:
: Hanover would have remained linked to
: Britain. There would probably have been no
: German Empire and possibly no World Wars.
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