Because that's how Napoleon wanted it at the time. If he decides to change it, who argues with him? Call it a secondary or satellite title, it's part of the "et cetera", and much less attractive than the imperial dignity. I would further note that ITTL, Napoleon has two sons, so any son of the...
I don't contend they are equivalent, but they are parallel - enough to show (IMO) that an elector being a foreign king was not intrinsically a big problem.
Dynastically this would be the same. The House of Wittelsbach has held the County Palatine since 1214, but inherits England and Scotland...
The first three King Georges of Great Britain were also Prince-Electors of Hanover.
Augustus II of Poland was also Prince-Elector of Saxony.
The first five Kings in/of Prussia were also Prince-Electors of Brandenburg.
Ferdinand himself is both King-Elector of Bohemia and King of Hungary, as...
No: he killed the other man, then left the Netherlands rather than face trial. He entered the service of the Duke of Lorraine and was KIA during the Fronde.
Heir to some subsidiary title is very much not heir to the Empire.
In any case, it will be impossible for Napoleon to make a "dynastic" marriage until he is Emperor. No royal house would marry one of their daughters to a commoner - nor to a "republican". And he would have no inheritable...
This is a double PoD. First, Napoleon has sons earlier, which will bump his brothers off the succession. Second, he is free to marry again even before becoming Emperor.
This could improve the position of the Beauharnais, who are not just Napoleon's "step-relations", but blood kin to his heir...
1) Elizabeth would succeed ahead of any of her children.
2) As "Elizabeth II", she could get some shine off her namesake.
3) Once she is Queen, she can just get rid of Buckingham (I'd think).
Longer-term: Elizabeth had ten surviving children . OTL, seven of them died without legitimate...
"lightning strike"? The French and British armies of 1940? The armies that sat inactive for seven months? If one was that worried, the thing to do would be deploy large reserves in dug-defenses around Berlin lest the Allies make a "lightning strike" there with airborne troops.
Regardless of...
Oh, yes, that would be very clever. Get 500,000 or so troops from somewhere (they had vast numbers just standing around with nothing to do), infiltrate them into the Netherlands (the Germans would never notice), and rush SE across the Rhine. How could such a cunning plan possibly fail?
Are you referring to the Altmark incident? In which the Royal Navy entered Norwegian waters to liberate British prisoners illegally concealed on a German ship?
Or perhaps the proposal (never acted on) to block the shipment of iron ore from Narvik by laying mines inn the "Norwegian Leads"?
What...
It also appears to show how Hoover's OTL Keynesian measures caused a significant recovery in late 1932 - but not in ITTL. But also though, the general recovery ITTL seems to begin before Roosevelt's inauguration.
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut each had an "established church" from the time of the original Puritan settlement. That is, a church recognized as the official church of the country, supported by taxation and with attendance or at least membership required. The practice of...
It should have already happened. Not that large, but significant in the relatively small milieu. Possibly some degree of diversion of Catholic Irish to a Catholic country. Californie should have a substantial Irish community. They could be relatively loyal against the Protestant Yankees.
The USSR will not recognize this, nor the puppet regime it will establish. The Åland islands would not be defensible against Soviet forces. The easternmost islands are less than a kilometer off the mainland, in easy reach of Soviet artillery to support landings. (Also those islands are not part...