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    House of Palatinate-Simmern England & Scotland after James VI

    But then one can ask the question: would the Huguenots rebel without the negotiations between the Duc de Soubise and the Duke of Buckingham to antagonise France? Without his personal vendettas facilitated by Charles, the sequence of events in France from 1625 onwards is definitively thrown out...
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    House of Palatinate-Simmern England & Scotland after James VI

    All that being said, who says the restitution would be done in a Peace of Westphalia at the same time as the OTL one? Ferdinand II could well be the Emperor handling the peace at an earlier juncture rather than Ferdinand III all the way in 1648. An Anglo-Swedish alliance with GA alive could...
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    House of Palatinate-Simmern England & Scotland after James VI

    I think I broadly agree, but only if there’s a peace not being actively enforced by a militarily involved Sweden. In that case, the Habsburgs have less room to manoeuvre themselves out of a repeat of the confessional warfare they’ve just finished with. In my head, I was taking the route of...
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    House of Palatinate-Simmern England & Scotland after James VI

    If the English and Scottish forces combine with another nation (most likely candidate here is Sweden), then restitution of the Palatinate is basically inevitable. It will go to Frederick, Elizabeth’s consort, and then pass to Frederick Henry once he has passed. The title would be his but I...
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    House of Palatinate-Simmern England & Scotland after James VI

    ...difficult though not violent time of it in Wales. Some things will be brought forward, other issues will be kicked down the road until after the *Thirty Years’ War is over. Social forces will come into conflict and the contradictions will be exposed, but that doesn’t mean all-out bloody civil...
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    House of Palatinate-Simmern England & Scotland after James VI

    She would have gone for it. It wouldn’t have been a Cadiz farce by any means, which is an overall positive for English prestige and royal honour, as she would not have left it in the hands of Buckingham. If England goes after the West Indies treasure fleet with the loyal command of Lord...
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    House of Palatinate-Simmern England & Scotland after James VI

    Well, unless Frederick also dies as per OTL (not impossible), then she would be pressing for intervention in her husband's favour. But, still, the answer is yes: she would be looking to pursue the Palatine cause with the backing of England and Scotland. My opinion on how successful she'd be is...
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    House of Palatinate-Simmern England & Scotland after James VI

    She would inherit ahead of her sons. That's how it worked at the time - which means she would reign as Elizabeth II of England (I of Scotland) until her OTL death in 1662 or another earlier death by illness or in childbirth. It seems unlikely she would die much earlier, though, given her famed...
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    TLIAW: The Palm and the Dust
    Threadmarks: 3. Lord Rosebery (1898-1910)

    Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Liberal 1898-1910 When Lord Rosebery passed on the 21st May 1929, it was his long-time protégé and friend, Winston Churchill, who gave him his most famous epitaph and etched into history the most lasting summary of his political career: “He did not...
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    TLIAW: The Palm and the Dust

    Arthur Balfour Conservative 1895-1898 Balfour’s ascension to the premiership was a foregone conclusion by 1891. It was only a matter of time (excluding the possible intervention of an erratic and excitable Chamberlain) before he would take his uncle’s place at 10 Downing Street and follow in...
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    TLIAW: The Palm and the Dust

    I think that approach would have stayed the same, personally. Never been too keen on Robert Taylor’s interpretation - I think Salisbury was a good diplomat but was also, as anyone, prone to biases, personal faults, and well-established working practices (i.e. temperamental sluggishness). There...
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    TLIAW: The Palm and the Dust
    Threadmarks: 1. Lord Salisbury (1886-1895)

    Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Conservative 1886-1895 From 1886 to 1895, it would have been perfectly reasonable to call Lord Salisbury the most powerful man in the world. He was chief minister of the largest empire on Earth, the patriarch of its greatest political party...
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    TLIAW: The Palm and the Dust

    The 1892 general election is not a famous election. It is not 1945 or 1979 or 1997. It broke no moulds, launched few careers, and merely followed the pattern of Liberal-Conservative alternation that had gone on for years. The Victorian duopoly continued, unchecked and unabated by the rise and...
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    Il dono di Alcide

    Hello! Life got ahead of me in the weeks and months after I said I would revive it, so I was never able to do so. Given the free time so much of us have right now, I could potentially bring it back. I have another Italian alternate history project in the works too, so I could end up posting...
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    AHC/WI - UK Labour dominated by the Gaitskellite wing of the party

    Gaitskell wasn't really much of a Eurosceptic and much of the scholarship on the issue has overplayed the extent to which he was anti-EEC. In reality, he was far more worried about the issue of Europe as a factional, internal difficulty that had to be overcome. Because he couldn't force the...
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    List of U.K. Prime Ministers 1945-2020

    Churchill Retires in 1950 What if Winston Churchill retired after the 1945 Conservative defeat? 1945: Clement Attlee (Labour) [1] 1950: Anthony Eden (Conservative) [2] 1957: Harold Macmillan (Conservative) [3] 1960: Nye Bevan (Labour) [4] 1961: Richard Crossman (Labour) [5] 1964: Richard...
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    List of U.K. Prime Ministers 1945-2020

    It’s your post, after all, and both of them could have been in that position.
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    List of U.K. Prime Ministers 1945-2020

    I don’t mean to police anyone’s fun, but I like my list games to include details as to how the new PMs come about when there are major constitutional issues (such as the fact that peerages could not be disclaimed until 1963).
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    List of U.K. Prime Ministers 1945-2020

    He couldn’t, though. He inherited his peerage.
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