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What I had in mind was taken from the Bonapartes rather than the Bourbons: a claimant to the French throne with all the charisma and ability of Napoleon I, who is in the same position as Napoleon III in 1848. I went for the earliest possible POD under the conditions of this challenge, and...

The best I can come up with is Louis Capet, a Bourbon prince born on VE day. This association with the start of a new era becomes part of his mystique later. He grows up to be an extremely popular, charismatic, and politically clever young man by his early twenties. He may or may not be...

The Short Reign of Pippin IV This comic novel by John Steinbeck is on this idea, but it's a satirical farce rather than an AH. It is very entertaining, a very different Steinbeck from "The Grapes of Wrath".

I don't see a problem here. Think of the Holy Roman Empire - one Emperor, many independent states.

The POD that comes to mind, is one in which the potato is not introduced successfully to Europe; either it can't grow in Eurasia, or it never becomes a staple vegetable. However, "fish and chips" can still exist in this timeline, if the "chips" are fried parsnip, or fried turnip.

Suggestion One Can the Crash of 1929 produce a National Government in the USA, as it did in the United Kingdom in 1931? Suggestion Two What POD can have the American President become a non-party-political Head of State, similar in that respect to the British Monarchy?

Can stronger opposition to the Civil Rights movement in the Sixties produce a second Civil War?

The "Lord Darcy" stories by Randall Garrett are a well-known AH based on this premise. However, as they are set in a world in which magic develops as an applied science, it might be too ASB for the purpose of this discussion.

The Book of Mormon can be seen as an AH based on this premise.

In the longer term, does an attempt to ban football in the U.S.A. produce an ATL in which Prohibition never happens? The President is remembered as "Killjoy Roosevelt". An annoyed Congress might even pass a Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution: "No act of the Federal Legislature...

Whatever POD you use for this timeline would have to exclude Britain from developing the same technology. If John Dee and Francis Bacon turn their minds to designing steam engines, the results could be very interesting. The most realistic victory for the Armada is simply to allow the Spanish...

I think this becomes a second Saar, and is reunified with Germany after the Saar, but before the Anschluss. History then proceeds as in OTL.