Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4621372-20121224180134/@comment-32656-20121227023735

...The Kaiser dying that early would have none of those effects. His son would simply have a regency. And given that the cigar was in his hand, she would not have hit him anyways.

A rock killing Edward I would not stop the English, I'm afraid. Fact of the matter is, the English outnumber the rest of the peoples living in the islands, and will come out on top eventually. That it took so long otl is, quite frankly, a bit of a fluke.