AHC: An independent United States with a shared monarchy with Britain

Independent nations like Canada and Australia still share a monarch with Great Britain as do several other nations. Scotland even if it had voted for Independence from the UK would have retained Queen Elizabeth the 2nd as head of state.

Would there have been anyway for the US to reach independence from Britain in all practical terms but retain the Crown as its head of state?
 
If they hadn't fought a revolution to become independent and if they had been willing to have a non republican government, which are two big ifs.
 
None of OTL dominions is more powerful that UK itself. American monarchy would be, not immediately but that is unavoidable sooner is later. That is problem, a colony could dominate metropoly! Even British would not be interested in such scenario. Maybe America would get it's own monarch one day, from cadet branch of British royal house? If not American colonies will break from Britain anyway.
 

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Independent nations like Canada and Australia still share a monarch with Great Britain as do several other nations. Scotland even if it had voted for Independence from the UK would have retained Queen Elizabeth the 2nd as head of state.

Would there have been anyway for the US to reach independence from Britain in all practical terms but retain the Crown as its head of state?
Well, like what happened with Canada and Australia, I.e. The political entity that is the United States of America is created by an act of the British parliament, along with its constitution which, instead of creating the presidential system with some similarities to britains governmental system, basically replicates the British system in a codified form providing for the British monarch to have the same powers as they do in the mother country, i.e. essentially none in practice.
 
ATL United States of America could follow the same system as Canada and Australia: federal-parliamentary constitutional monarchy, with a Governor-General representing the Crown, a bicameral legislature (IMHO the term Congress could be relatively awkward) and a dedicated national order (e.g. Order of Canada and Order of Australia), with the possibility of knighthood by the British monarch (imagine, e.g., Sir Aaron Cooper for his musical compositions, Sir David Wark Griffith for "his pioneering work and legacy in motion-picture arts, Sir Elvis Aaron Prestley for "contribution to popular music and culture in general".)
 

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As far as the colonists themselves were concerned, this was in fact the political relationship between Britain and the colonies before 1776. If you read their pre-war writings (Jefferson's Summary View of the Rights of British America makes the point most clearly), you can see that they maintained that a relationship akin to the modern Commonwealth of Nations was what bound the British Empire together. Britain and the colonies were all bound by loyalty to the king, but the Westminster Parliament had no more right to legislate for Virginia than the House of Burgesses in Williamsburg had to legislate for Britain, or, for that matter, the colonial legislatures had to legislate for one another.

As far as the AHC, imagine that France does better in the French and Indian War (and the Seven Years War in general), so the Albany Plan of Franklin and Hutchison gets some real traction.
 
This is basically what Adam Smith thought should be done. Well, actually, he suggested letting the Americans go on virtually any terms, so that they'd be a reliable ally and trading partner. We was worried that if we had to fight a long war for our independence, Britain and America would never get along.
 
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