from alt.talk.royalty Subject: Re: A KING FOR USA ?? From: Marlene A Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Mar 17, 1999 16:18 EST Message-id: <exIhBvLc#[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Some years ago, when I still worked for the Associated Press in NYC, I was asked (I was one of the news librarians there) to do the research to see who would be king/queen if Washington had been proclaimed a sovereign. He and Martha had no children (She did have 2 children from her first marriage.) Thus, it meant going to a collateral line, a descendant of a brother or half brother (I've forgotten) - and it came down to an elderly man in California who had a daughter. Town and Country magazine had an article in March 1993 about the brother of Friedrich the Great -as a possible choice. "After Geroge Washington spurned some sincere overtures, colonial diarist Rufus King and other arch-Federalists, continued the battle cry for a monarchy. For obvious reasons, the Britsh hardly offered tje politically correct template, so they looked elsewhere for inspiration, namely Prussia.....In the late 1780s, following a great deal of secretive discussion, Nathaniel Gorham, president of the Continental Congress, independently sent Baron Friedrich Augustus von Steuben .... back home as an emissary to the court with an astonishing offer for Prince Friedrich Heinrich of Prussia, brother of Friedrich the Great: would the Prince ofPrussia like to be the king of America? According to this article, he wanted time to think it over, but during this time, the a compromise was achieved between large and small states, the Constitution written and ratified - "As far as an American monarchy was concerned, that was that. The "Prince Henry episode," as historians have come to call it, was quickly dismissed - although James Madison, ANdrew Jackson and others referred to it well into the 1820s." But what if..... What if Friedrich Heinrich had become king -- he died without issue. So the succession would have passed to his brother, August Ferdinand who with his wife Luise - six sons and 2 daughters. Only the youngest daughter, Luise, had legitimate issue - she was married to Antoni Radziwill. They had a son, Friedrich- Antoni-Friedrich-Antoni-Elisabeth Radziwill who was born in 1917 -- She would be Queen Elizabeth. Elizabeth's mother, Dorothy Parker Deacon, was the sister of Gladys Deacon who married the duke of Marlborough. Elisabeth's first marriage to Prince Wittold Czartoryski - he was killed by gunfire in 1945 - the family were on a train that was bombed - he pushed his wife under the carriage of the train. Two kids, Albert and Alexandra. Elisabeth remarried Jan Tomaszewski (according to the article a Knight of Malta.) Son Albert would be the heir apparent = in 1993, according to this article, he was living in Annapolis, Maryland, and was described as the technical manager for Zodiac of North America, a French owned company that made inflatable boats for Jacques Cousteau. He was born in 1939 -- -- "Best leave the sins of others well alone until you've made some headway with your own." Celimene, The Misanthrope (Tony Harrison adaptation,
