Not sure about the feelings between the two cousins but the fact thar Victoria hated her uncle certainly prevented such marriage.
E-A ot only might wish to keep Hannover united to the UK but, more important, have an ascendant over his niece given his son George's handicap.
In the end. George overcome his handicap, got married, founded a family an reigned for 15 years until he was deposed for backing "the wrong horse" at the prussian-austrian war.
Is it true that Prince Ernest August of Great Britain, fifth son of King George III, tried to foster a marriage between his only son, Prince George of Cumberland, and his niece Victoria -- so as to keep the British and Hanoverian crowns united? One gets to wondering how different history might have been, had such a match pulled through ...
As it was, the young Queen Victoria was smitten with another first cousin, on her mother's side of the family, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. And her Cumberland cousin was destined to become the last king of Hanover, George V ("the Blind"). Perhaps she was repulsed by his condition ...
It was remarkable that he was able to find a bride at all, in the end. Just what kind of marriage he had with Duchess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, and how she coped with his disability, is anybody's guess ...
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