It was no secret that he wished to replace the popular and skilful Robert Walpole, first among the King's Ministers, with Sir Spencer Compton, a nonentity. While he had been Prince of Wales, George had done everything he could to undermine the rule and policies of his father. As it would later become well known among the English, the Hanoverians had a tradition of violent disagreements between father and son. Many had looked forward to this event with some degree of dread. Three days after the death of King George I, the Privy Council convened to proclaim George's only son, also named George, as King George II. But when the man was the King of Great Britain, the King of Ireland and the Elector of Hanover (though he himself had claimed its unrecognised Kingship), things were different indeed. And, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the world would not have marked such an event. On the eleventh of June, 1727, a man of sixty-seven years suffered a stroke and died. It all begins in the year 1727, at an event that Dr Pylos insists on referring to as the Coronation of the Hun, when the axis of history began to spin the world towards a different fate altogether.įrom "Nasty, Brutish, and Short - the Reign of King George II of the Kingdom of Great Britain". The jury is still out on the PoD, but Dr Lombardi has the strongest theory so far. This is a paradigm which is all over TTL, as you will soon see.Įnough beating about the bush. But an Englishman from that history might be similarly appalled at the UK, because change always goes both ways. A Scot from a timeline where Scotland remained independent might well look upon the United Kingdom of OTL as being an English Empire in Scotland.
Let me use an example from the history of my own country. Comparisons to OTL are inevitable as we study TimeLine L (henceforth abbreviated to TLL, or This TimeLine, TTL) but it is my opinion that they should not be taken too far. Our own world's history, also sometimes called "TimeLine A", shall in this report be contracted to 'Our TimeLine' or OTL for short, as is the Institute policy. Even chaos theory cannot be relied upon: individuals may be born after the PoD with different genes due to effects of random chance, but their names, temperaments and even destinies may still be identical to that of our history.Ī note on terminology. We have also used those basic information gathering techniques from the contemporary populace as recommended by the Institute, without provoking undue suspicion.Īs you will know, sir, identifying the point at which another history diverged from our own - the so-called Point of Divergence - is often not so easy as the films would have us believe. The information we have obtained from TimeLine L is primarily in the form of local history books, and we have tried to gain these from several different sources to avoid making mistakes based on national bias. Perhaps, as I and my team set down what we have learned, we will make our own decisions, just as you will. As of now, sir, I must confess that my own opinions are still divided on this issue.
We are, of course, aware that this report will be the primary basis for the International Oversight Committee's decision on whether TimeLine L is worth further exploration. The team has completed the preliminary one-month survey of the world that the Institute has designated ' TimeLine L'. Nuttall, seconded from British SAS, commanding officer.Īddressed to Director Stephen Rogers of the Thande Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Temporary headquarters of TimeLine L Preliminary Exploration Team, location classified.
– Epigram of Prince Frederick Lewis of Wales (1707-1751), OTL
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