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This possibly belongs in ASB (I don't mind the mods moving it, although I felt it was worth a shot in pre-1900), but might be possible with a significant and early POD.

So this TL premise is gonna sound strange, but I watched this 1995 adaptation of Richard III where the plot of Shakespeare's play is taken from the 1400's and set to the 20th Century, more specifically the 1930's. Britain is ravaged by civil war between royal factions, War of Roses-style, and the king seems to have far more power than in OTL, to the point where the king can pretty much act as a dictator. Britain also appears to be Catholic, but that's less important.

I thought this was a pretty cool idea despite being fairly unrealistic, and wondered how this could have come about historically. By the 20th Century, monarchs had long since started losing power to elected officials, in Britain even earlier than other places, but could this development be reversed? Would it be possible for claims to the throne to be important enough to fight civil wars over in 20th Century Britain? Would the butterflies of such PODs be so huge the world wouldn't be recognizable?

I realize that film was influenced by the Rule of Cool (the king himself even runs around the battlefield machine-gunning enemy soldiers) rather than historical realism, but I've wanted to make a TL on a modern monarchical, autocratic Britain for some time anyways, and figured this tied in nicely.

Any thoughts on possible PODs, consequences, etc?
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