You can have a POD any where you want in which England and Wales are integrated into Scotland by the act of union and not into England
With greatest respect to you and your efforts to make a utopia where the English instead need to put up with our World Cup adverts being pounded into their skulls every waking moment this is pretty much impossible unless you make large parts of northern and Central England indentify themselves as Scottish or at least Celtic.
Well, that clearly means you need a very early PoD...but that means that it's not terribly likely the idea of "Scotland" per se ever arises.
You can have a POD any where you want in which England and Wales are integrated into Scotland by the act of union and not into England
The other option would be a bit earlier. Henry V lives longer and Henry VI is more of a chip off the old block. The Union of the English and French crowns endures, people in England get increasingly restive under the rule of what is essentially a French Dynasty, and eventually revolt over high taxation to pay for the King's continental wars. The Scottish Monarch appears as an obvious alternative, presses a claim on the throne and eventually gets installed by the nobility as a more home-grown alternative to the King in Paris. An Act of Union soon follows...
With greatest respect to you and your efforts to make a utopia where the English instead need to put up with our World Cup adverts being pounded into their skulls every waking moment this is pretty much impossible unless you make large parts of northern and Central England indentify themselves as Scottish or at least Celtic.
Seeing as at that point the Scots were still just another Irish tribe hanging out in Ulster, yeah, that's pretty wrong.
Yes, and the problem with this idea in general is that England was a much more important and powerful realm than Scotland. IOTL, the Scottish royal family basically inherited England-thats about as favorable to Scotland as you can get. And yet they still moved their capital to London and were English within two or three generations.
Seeing as at that point the Scots were still just another Irish tribe hanging out in Ulster, yeah, that's pretty wrong.
Did I have my times wrong??
I thought the Scotii came from Ireland and established the Kingdom of Albion?
Then let Pict refugees come stay south of them, between them and Celts, around 30AD...
Then the Romans entered the scene around 43AD...
Am I wrong?