I know of only 4 examples where that happened. Three in France and one in Russia:
1: Louis X - Philip V - Charles IV
2: Francois II - Charles IX - Henri III
3: Louis XVI - Louis XVIII - Charles X
4: Fjodor III - Ivan V - Peter I
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: Had the Duke of Kent outlived his brother
: William he would have succeeded as Edward
: VII and his grandson would have been Edward
: VIII.
:
: My bad ... I was tired when posting, and
: didn't bother to check the postnominal
: numbers.
:
: My guess is that the grandson would not have
: been the child of Victoria but of a younger
: brother who would probably have been George
: V as he would have been born during the
: reign of his uncle George IV.
:
: This is a likely scenario. That being said,
: I realize that engaging in this sort of
: "what-if" speculation only leads
: to an endless change of similar questions.
: For then, one could ask "What if
: Princess Elizabeth Georgina of Clarence
: (daughter of the future King William IV) had
: lived?"
:
: In that case, the potential for the Duke of
: Kent to sire a son to displace Princess
: Alexandrina Victoria would have been a moot
: point, since his niece would have had
: precedence over him in the British
: succession (thanks to primogeniture).
: Indeed, at the time of her christening,
: Londoners actually jumped the gun by dubbing
: her "Little Queen Bess".
:
: Well ... we know that an uncle-to-niece
: succession occurred among the Jacobites,
: when in 1875 Duke Francesco V of Modena
: (styled King Francis I of England and
: Scotland) died, whereupon Archduchess Maria
: Theresa of Austria-Este was hailed as
: "Queen Mary III and II." Had her
: father (Archduke Ferdinand Karl Victor) had
: lived to sire a son, this obviously would
: not have happened.
:
: But then, her cousin (Anna Beatrice, only
: child of her uncle) would have had
: precedence over him in the Jacobite
: succession (whatever might be said about the
: duchy of Modena), anyway, had she lived. As
: it was, this Hapsburg archduchess died in
: infancy, just like the Hanoverian princess
: who might have become Queen Elizabeth II of
: England.
:
: As I understand, the daughter of Duke
: Francesco V of Modena would have been styled
: as "Queen Anne of England and
: Scotland" (not Anne I) by Jacobites,
: who do not regard Anne Stuart (who succeeded
: to the British throne in 1702) as a rightful
: queen regnant. Rather, she was a usurper
: ...
:
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