Four programmes in which Professor Christopher Andrew rewrites history by imagining how past events could have been different. 3: Frederick III ascended the German throne in 1888, though he ruled for only 99 days before dying of cancer. Ten years earlier, his father was shot by a would-be assassin, but survived. What if the old Kaiser had died and his son had enjoyed a decade of power with Queen
Victoria's eldest daughter at his side? Producer Ian Bell