Just read through this and definitely like it so far.
With the Boleyn family, hopefully they can get out in time because this is going to turn ugly real fast. George was always said to be pretty intelligent so I can already guess he’s looking for a way out but I’m sure that Anne can get a...
Yes Charles was quite aware of them and cared, a noted example would be when Francisco Pizarro met him in person to appeal for permission and support to launch a third expedition into South America. He was overall impressed with accounts of the lands wealth in gold and silver but distracted...
They don’t without trading something somewhere else for it. Or Hungary gets into another war and loses.
As for the Habsburg rule in Italy I think it’ll last for at the most a generation before Joseph ITTL does a grand trade of those non contiguous lands for land that is. An example could be...
I’d suspect that in this scenario Silesia would be taken by Austria due to whatever alt war with Prussia allowed the formation of this Kleindudstchland.
Yeah that would be doable, it also helps that in this scenario he has already delivered a son or more so Franz-Joseph could be inclined to loosen up a tad
Federalism definitely, but I’m suspecting it would be of a asymmetrical design in order to handle the various different demands of language, ethnicity, etc.
Yeah the whole situation was bound for trouble. Franz sincerely loved his son it just was that as an absolute monarch of a dynasty as old...
I think he’d do alright, though it’s going to get messy with the idealism he has. In this scenario he already has a growing family to lean on for support so his mental stability should be better which is a plus.
At this time the liberals had merged into the various nationalist political groups...
He may have gave it a thought but Franz always sternly kept imperial authority close at hand. In fact he was notorious for it even till his death when it was obvious he should have been delegating authority over to Karl to give him experience and exposure, he only grudgingly did so and...
No it was not in his character to abdicate. Franz Joseph considered his role as monarch and head of the Habsburg dynasty as a sacred duty which no argument could be brook. Hence the problem between him and Rudolf is that Rudolf didn’t understand like Franz Ferdinand did, that he needed to play...
Id suspect that in this situation Franz would rule it directly as a private possession of the Habsburg Dynasty. A plausible reason for Franz to have wanted to gain the Congo would have been after Leopolds atrocities came to light. During that period the Belgium government had tried to find a...