AHC: Reunited Scandinavia

With a POD after the Napoleonic Wars, have the Nordic states reunite again into a single nation, with a relatively stable and effective government. It must survive up to the ATL present day.
 
This is tough, but how about King Charles XIII named his Danish contemporary as the next Swedish monarch.... at a gunpoint?
 
This is tough, but how about King Charles XIII named his Danish contemporary as the next Swedish monarch.... at a gunpoint?

Would that fly at Vienna though?

Also, it's not like the Scandinavians were stable and especially united the first time round under Kalmar...
 
Pan-Scandinavianism was quite big during the mid-1800s. The movement essentially died when Sweden-Norway rejected to assist Denmark in the Second Schleswig War of 1864. If you can get Sweden-Norway to support Copenhagen in that war (which should be possible but I'm no Scandinavia expert), then Pan-Scandinavianism survives and might unify the three kingdoms somewhere around the 1880s/90s, I reckon.
 
If Bernadotte's candidacy for election to Swedish King had fallen through in 1808, then maybe a prince of Denmark might get the job.

I don't know if there was any "Pan-Scandanavianism" at this time where anyone, either side, would want a united Scandanavia.

But it was possible as Denmark was a French ally and Bonaparte might have approved. Prussia and Austria couldn't do much about it and Russia was otherwise occupied.

Russia might have been the biggest opposer in the long run.
 
Pan-Scandinavianism was quite big during the mid-1800s. The movement essentially died when Sweden-Norway rejected to assist Denmark in the Second Schleswig War of 1864. If you can get Sweden-Norway to support Copenhagen in that war (which should be possible but I'm no Scandinavia expert), then Pan-Scandinavianism survives and might unify the three kingdoms somewhere around the 1880s/90s, I reckon.

What would motivate the Swede-Norwegians to stick their neck out like that, though? They are facing down the entire German Confederation, basically. I imagine you'd need British support to really make it work, or have the Prusso-Austrian power levels much lower.
 
What would motivate the Swede-Norwegians to stick their neck out like that, though? They are facing down the entire German Confederation, basically. I imagine you'd need British support to really make it work, or have the Prusso-Austrian power levels much lower.

Surely there is no way they'd ever help. They have nothing to gain and everything to lose. I can only see them supporting the Danes if it was plainly obvious from the start that the Germans were going to lose hard - but if that had been the case Prussia wouldn't have started the war in the first place.
 
If Bernadotte's candidacy for election to Swedish King had fallen through in 1808, then maybe a prince of Denmark might get the job.

Iirc a member of the House of Augustenbrg was initially chosen as Crown Prince, but died before the King and Bernadotte was chosen.

Had the Augustenburgs kept the throne, maybe they would also have been chosen for the Danish one instead of the Glucksburgs.
 
Avoid the 1814 coup d'état in Norway, so that Norway becomes as tightly knit to Sweden as it was to Denmark, and you already have a head start. Then you only have to strengthen Scandinavianism later in the century and make it last, so that Denmark joins in.
 
Iirc a member of the House of Augustenbrg was initially chosen as Crown Prince, but died before the King and Bernadotte was chosen.

Had the Augustenburgs kept the throne, maybe they would also have been chosen for the Danish one instead of the Glucksburgs.

Even simpler: Frederick VI of Denmark tried to get elected in 1809, being a descendant of Gustav of Sweden, but they passed him over for the Augustenburg instead. If you could get Frederick VI elected as crown prince, and have him succeed, you will have united Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
 
Bernadotte considered the Princess Vilhelmina of Denmark for Oscar I. Simply have a butterfly render her fertile (she was reportedly barren), and let her dad agree to marrying her to Oscar instead of her Danish cousin. Then the rest of the Danish royal family goes extinct as OTL leaving her a nearer heiress than Luise of Hesse-Kassel. Bam! Sweden Denmark and Norway are in Kalmar 2
 
Iirc a member of the House of Augustenbrg was initially chosen as Crown Prince, but died before the King and Bernadotte was chosen.

Had the Augustenburgs kept the throne, maybe they would also have been chosen for the Danish one instead of the Glucksburgs.

Yes, even though he was a "Junior" line member, a dynastic marriage a generation or two later was possible, if a bit of a reach.
 
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