WI: The Ethiopian royal family was involved in the various European royalty marrying each other?

[justiniano]

Like how Kaiser Wilhem II, Czar Nicholas II & King George were all cousins, What if they had some cousin in Ethiopia?

[lordroel]

Jun 2, 2022 14:07:43 GMT justiniano said:

Like how Kaiser Wilhem II, Czar Nicholas II & King George were all cousins, What if they had some cousin in Ethiopia?

justiniano , nice you want to create threads with WIs but lets keep it down to 1 ore 2, this is a small forum and members need time to read and maybe comment on threads, having so many new threads per day for so few member in this forum who are active is a little bit to much.

[simon darkshade]

Simply not going to happen. How were they cousins? Through Queen Victoria.

Are any of her children going to marry into the Ethiopes? No.

[justiniano]

Jun 2, 2022 14:27:01 GMT simon darkshade said:

Are any of her children going to marry into the Ethiopes? No.

Why not?

[simon darkshade]

As no European royals in the 18th or 19th centuries married into African royalty of any description and right when Queen Victoria’s children were of marriageable age (1862-1885), Britain was at war with Ethiopia (67-68) and forced their Emperor to shoot himself. After that point, Theodore’s son was under British protection, but died at 18 of pleurisy. The next bloke on the throne was killed by the Mahdists and had but two sons, one who died early. Menelik II takes the throne in 1885, which is too late for any of his kids.

The practicality is one thing, but no English Royal or even aristocrat is going to marry a Black African in the 19th century.

[justiniano]

lordroel, my last post was over 12 hours ago, so I'll make a new post now.

[lordroel]

Jun 2, 2022 15:43:41 GMT justiniano said:

lordroel, my last post was over 12 hours ago, so I'll make a new post now.

You made 4 threads in the past 12 hours, that is enough for one day.