V-e-e-r-r-y interestink......

The British Commonwealth recently approved a change in the rules for the royal succession. From now on, primogenitor will no longer be restricted to males; the sovereign's eldest child, regardless of gender, will succeed to the throne.

A participant in the Facebook Alternate History group has pointed out that had this rule been in effect when Queen Victoria died, she would have been succeeded by her daugher, the Princess Royal, Victoria Adelaide Mary- who died seven months later.

She, in turn, would have been succeeded by... wait for it.....

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

Or should we say, King William V of England.

Would have made for an interesting First World War, nicht wahr?