The son and heir of Napoleon III lives to his ascendancy and the Second Empire survives the Franco-Prussian War. Who would it be most fortuitous for Napoleon IV to marry in the interest of furthering the new dynasty?
In Milarqui's TL, he married one of the daughters of former Spanish queen regnant Isabella II (María del Pilar)
In my TL I selected HRH Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert.
IIRC, they end up having five children between 1880 & 1892; four sons and one daughter.
Including one son born with hemophilia.
Joho .
Pretty inconceivable that Victoria would allow her youngest and favourite daughter to marry a foreign monarch (meaning she would have to move abroad)...let alone a Catholic.
In my TL I selected HRH Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert.
IIRC, they end up having five children between 1880 & 1892; four sons and one daughter.
Including one son born with hemophilia.
Joho .
I'm not sure, but I think Napoléon III, who constantly pursued a politic of conciliation and alliance with the United Kingdom (Crimea, China, free trade ...), favored the British match, namely Princess Beatrice, and a marriage was in the air before the Prince got killed in 1879.
I believe in OTL Empress Eugenie and Queen Isabella both wished for this to happen and it still might have had both young people lived. The Prince Imperial marrying a Spanish Infanta (especially after the death of the Count of Chambord, when the Spanish Bourbon line was senior to the Orleanists) would probably many Legitimistes to the Imperial throne, since any heirs would be part Bourbon AND not descendants of Egalitie or Louis Phillipe.
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=336485
Where the marriage of N.IV was discussed and why a Spanish infanta would be a good match
Would it be possible that he would marry Franz Joseph's daughter?
Pretty inconceivable that Victoria would allow her youngest and favourite daughter to marry a foreign monarch (meaning she would have to move abroad)...let alone a Catholic.
One of her daughters did marry an orthodox.
Maybe get the daughter of an American Captain of Industry. Depends on if they don't respect him enough to give his kid a royal wife.
Who?
I think you are confusing with her granddaughters, several of whom converted to Orthodoxy - Alix and Ella of Hesse and Sophie of Prussia. I am excluding Victoria Melita as she did not convert during her grandmother's lifetime.
There would have been a national outcry at the marriage of Princess Beatrice to a Roman Catholic. Note the public demonstrations against her daughter Princess Ena's (she wasn't even a British princess by birth!) marriage in 1906 to the Spanish King and her conversion to Catholicism.
I don't know what the internal rules were for French Consorts but presumably the Vatican would have required an Empress of the French to be Catholic. Victoria wouldn't have allowed her daughter to convert.
Pretty inconceivable that Victoria would allow her youngest and favourite daughter to marry a foreign monarch (meaning she would have to move abroad)...let alone a Catholic.
An English princess married to a French princess, it's not unprecedented, see Princess Henrietta of England, first wife of Louis XIV's brother :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_of_England