Alternate History

[Ista]

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[Tatiana Maria]

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Personally, I think the odds are good that a Crown Prince Carl Philip would not have been as excellent an heir as Crown Princess Victoria. This is of course speculative (because this is a thread for speculation), but I suspect that for Crown Princess Victoria, being parented by a father who was vehemently displeased with having his daughter rather than his favored son as his heir (as many have said, given the comments he has made publicly, one can only imagine the things he’s said privately) made her less confident in herself and more motivated to prove herself worthy of her position than a Crown Prince would have been.

A Crown Prince Carl Philip raised by an indulgent father who proudly treated him as his favorite child would be less likely to develop the same humility or the same external motivation to work to be the perfect heir.

That said, his gender would mean that he – and his crown princess consort – would be idealized in certain ways compared to Victoria and Daniel as the crown princess couple in real life, and that would contribute to his popularity.

 

[meeralakshmi]

If the Jacobites followed absolute primogeniture their pretender would be Princess Marie Gabrielle of Bavaria, Dowager Princess of Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg.

If Greece followed absolute primogeniture from the start the pretender to the Greek throne would be the crown prince of Yugoslavia.

If the descendants of Maria II of Portugal followed absolute primogeniture their pretender would be Prince Alexander of Saxony. Not sure why none of her descendants have attempted to claim the defunct Portuguese throne, if anyone is able to explain I would appreciate it.

If the Miguelists followed absolute primogeniture their pretender would be Tatiana Dorozynski.

I know this thread is about alternate history but also it would be fun to see alternate future, like what if Charles III did a Charlemagne and divided his kingdoms, so we have the Duke of Edinburgh as the king of Scotland or the Princess Royal the Queen of Australia

I wonder if Scotland would go to the Jacobites.

 

[duke of poliganc]

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Personally, I think the odds are good that a Crown Prince Carl Philip would not have been as excellent an heir as Crown Princess Victoria. This is of course speculative (because this is a thread for speculation), but I suspect that for Crown Princess Victoria, being parented by a father who was vehemently displeased with having his daughter rather than his favored son as his heir (as many have said, given the comments he has made publicly, one can only imagine the things he’s said privately) made her less confident in herself and more motivated to prove herself worthy of her position than a Crown Prince would have been.

A Crown Prince Carl Philip raised by an indulgent father who proudly treated him as his favorite child would be less likely to develop the same humility or the same external motivation to work to be the perfect heir.

That said, his gender would mean that he – and his crown princess consort – would be idealized in certain ways compared to Victoria and Daniel as the crown princess couple in real life, and that would contribute to his popularity.

Exactly


As I mentioned in my original post it’s nothing against Carl Philip!

The same thing goes for Norway if Harald was a girl and his eldest sister Ingaborg was the one to follow her father I don’t think that the Norwegian monarchy would be so popular as it is now!

Same for Martha Louise if she agreed to be the crown princess instead of her brother Hakoon I don’t think there would be a lot of enthusiasm about her as a future monarch!

 

[meeralakshmi]

If the descendants of Maria II of Portugal followed absolute primogeniture their pretender would be Prince Alexander of Saxony.

And he would be the pretender even if they did follow male-preference primogeniture.

If Italy had followed absolute primogeniture from the start their pretender would be Hélène de Witt.