AHC: Cornwall a "Nation" of the UK

As early PoD as you want, make Cornwall a 'nation' within the UK, like Scotland or Whales. It doesn't have to remain independent from the Union indefinitely, it just has to hold out long enough and be important enough on the European stage to be recognised as a 'different' country to England after being (if butterflies don't apply) overwhelmed by English hegemony. Cornwall does not have to remain confined to it's borders from OLT, as a larger Cornwall is more likely to stay independent for longer. Effectively, I'm asking for a stronger and longer lasting line of Cornish Kings at the very least.
 
First, it is Wales and not Whales. Whales are the world's largest mammals.
Second it is possible, if Cornwall was not conquered by the Saxons but centuries later.
 
Could you not just have Labour be fair and give them a vote in 2003 or something? The Cornish are in support of an Assembly and so if Labour hadn't of been so blatantly unfair/biased/ignorant then perhaps we could have a referendum in Cornwall? I don't know about earlier except to not have a Western Rebellion, thus no extra harshness directed at the Cornish language and so perhaps in the Victorian era it makes a particularly large comeback?
 
The concept of "Welshness", separate to Englishness could have easily died out in a similar way during the 19th Century, and it only became a legal nation again in the 1940s, so you should be able to do something similar for Cornwall.

You'll probably want to do something in the early 1800s to cause the Cornish to identify against the English via some insult or other (similar to the Treachery of the Blue Books), or perhaps a Cornish football team at a later point.
 
I actually have a TL about this. The Tudors settle America, Perkin Warbeck throws a coup in 1497 and owes it to Cornish troops.
 
Some ideas roughly in order
1066 Have William the Bastard defeated at Hastings, thus no Earls of Devon ans Cornwall to impose "Normanisation" on Cornwall.

1215 Llywelyn the Great gains more for the Celts in Magna Carta
1415 Henry V grants more power in response to Cornish contingent in Agincourt campaign
1337 The crown doesn't create The Duchy of Cornwall for the eldest son of the King but a principality instead
1497 Perkin Warbeck does better
1549 Prayer Book Rebellion overthrows English control and establishes greater independence akin to a principality
1645 Charles I rewards Cornwall with independence following a win against Parliament
1685 Monmouth wins rewards Cornwall with more autonomy (long long odds)
1715 Jacobite Rising (1,000,000 to 1 shot IMHO)
Right into the 18th C both the Cornish and the English recognised Cornwall's separateness
 
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