User blog comment:Imperium Guy/British-German Union/@comment-4727448-20120924212422/@comment-257949-20120926210112

The original author of the Anglo-German Union TL, which I've adopted and have ideas for that I'm just sitting on, said that all of Queen Victoria's kids other the Vicky 2 die off. This isn't entirely unachievable; one of them was nearly assassinated, another could have been swept out to sea (I think Victoria was mortally afraid that that would happen the very first time he went out with the Royal Navy). I think there's another one or two who I can't remember, but military service or haemophilia is enough to do the job. You can then exploit the butterflies to make the union more plausible.