History is full of tantilising ‘what ifs’. One relates to Britain’s Act of Succession. It was changed in 2015 to establish equality in the line of royal succession between males and females. If the change had happened before the death of Queen Victoria, the throne would have passed not to her second child, Edward VII, but to her eldest, Princess Victoria, the widow of Emperor Frederick III of Germany.
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