He was a son of George III. Why didn't he become king, rather than Victoria, a granddaughter of George III?
Edited to Add: I think I have the answer, but want to know if it is correct. Victoria was the daughter of Edward, who was an older son of George III than Ernest Augustus. So Edward's line would succeed, rather than Ernest.
He was the 5th son of King George III, Victoria was the daughter of the 4th son Edward, Duke of Kent, he died when Victoria was six months else.
Now because she was a female she could not ascend to the throne of Hanover, which went by Salic law. George III, IV and William IV were both King of Britain and King of Hanover.
This is how Ernest Augustus became King of Hanover.
You edited portion is correct. Since Victoria was from the senior line of brothers coming from George III, she inherited before her Uncle who was the 5th brother. and as stated since succession laws in Hanover and the UK were different, it allowed him to become King of Hanover, while she became Queen Regnet of the United Kingdom.
shareIn addition to what others have said, Ernst Augustus was not that good a schemer. Once Victoria ditched his inside man Conroy, he figured it was time to run back to Hanover.
I wonder if Ernst Augustus' scheme to have himself declared Regent for the child Queen had an impact on Victoria's later moves in Germany. She had her daughter Vicky marry the Prussian/German Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (later the short-reigning Kaiser Friedrich.) Bismarck, Friedrich Wilhelm's father (Kaiser Wilhelm I) and son (Kaiser Wilhelm II) saw Vicky as a dangerous foreigner who tried to get Friedrich Wilhelm/Kaiser Friedrich to introduce what they saw as excessively liberal laws.
In contrast to Bismarck. Kaiser Wilhelm I and Kaiser Wilhelm II, Adolf Hitler did not see Britain as a threat to Germany and wanted an alliance with Britain.
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Dangerous foreigner? That is funny considering Victoria's family were Germans. Most of her children married Germans except Louise who married a Scotsman. As for the line of succession, Edward married Alexandra, a Danish princess (her father was a King of Denmark but his heritage was German and so was her mothers) Edward's son George V married a German, Mary of Teck and then their son, George VI married Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon who was Scottish (so that brought some 'British' blood into the mix). Elizabeth II married Phillip who brought back some of the German heritage along with some Russian. So the whole British vs German thing always irritates me. They were more German than British.
Maybe life is a dream and we wake up when we die?
They were more German than British.
Well-played!
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Victoria herself says that if you go back far enough her entire family is German, however you choose to define "German" in historical context.
shareRoyals will often pick their consorts from other countries though, even today.
Like, none of the monarchs of Sweden since 1592 have had a Swedish-born consort!
And because there were so many German principalities, royals from other countries often married Germans.
And even a commoner like Silvia Sommerlath was yet another German to become the queen of Sweden!
However, it is indeed ridiculous to call the British royal family anything but British now.
It is funny though that all English monarchs since 1066 have been descendants of William I, a Norman.
The Duke of Cumberland left for Hanover not long after his niece's accession; those machinations with Conroy never happened, other than in Daisy Goodwin's tiny brain. Victoria was not a "child Queen"; at 18, many women were already married. Victoria and Albert wanted to promote good relations between their country and their German relatives; unfortunately, suspicions arose, as you said.
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