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With a POD of 1300 in England or later...

Here is the goals.

England's royal line is to unite the British Isles by outright conquest or personal unions. The War of the Roses either never happens or the Lancasters win or some cousin of the Lancasters win (Tudor anyone?). The Hapsburgs become Holy Roman Emperors and stay Catholic. The English/ British monarchy ends up ruling over at least India, major chunks of Africa, the Caribbean, and Australia. Areas that are ruled by Catholic rulers in OTL are also done so in TTL. (in other words these OTL events are NOT butterflied away).

By 1970s TTL, the technology base of the most advanced civilization should be OTL 1940 or later (1970s OTL or all the way to modern OTL is OK too, 1940 is just a floor).

Here are target changes.

England is not going to care if the Austrian Hapsburgs form a continental hegemony through marriages and personal unions (whether they succeed or not is another story, the English/ British just don't mind or are outright supportive). This means that they either don't give a damn about continental hedgemony or they must really trust the Catholic Hapsburgs.

North America's population has 75% European English speaking Christians who are Protestant if the English monarchy is protestant or Catholic if the monarchy is Catholic. The 25% contain Europeans that don't speak English, non Europeans, English speaking Europeans of other languages. It doesn't need to be ruled by the English/ British. In OTL Canada, the TTL biggest minority by far is the native Indians.

There is an odd number of world wars. The first (or only) takes place in the 1910s or 1920s. It lasts 3 years and the British are on the winning side. A front is in OTL California.

England's/ Great Britain's/ United Kingdom's (whatever it's called in TTL) monarch rules many areas outright and have tributary states by modern times. Their navy is slightly more powerful than the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th biggest navies. Their economy is the biggest of the world. The amount the government spends is equal to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th biggest expenditures. This does not mean the ECONOMY is bigger than the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th biggest, I suppose they could collect more taxes than their other counterparts.

Europe is the most industrial continent in the world.

Now here is the real meat.

Most of Europe is ruled by either absolute monarchs or have however much power a High Middle Ages monarch would have.

England's monarch ends up with considerable power by modern times, but not infinite power. It's a constitutional monarchy and he has as much power as James II did before he got deposed. This means that he can't collect taxes without parliament but he does have considerable power. Even after the restoration of Charles II, the monarchy already lost power after the English Civil war, in other words their power was waning.

This is tricky. The problem is that constitutional monarchies usually devolve into democracies that come with a monarch. That means you have absolute monarchies (Saudi Arabia) and those that will rubber stamp anything (OTL Britain). You don't have any "powerful but limited" like England under James II.
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