AHC turn the british empire into a succesfull absolute monarchy

A direct explanation: This challenge is turn turn UK with a PoD after 1806 into a absolute monarchy, but at the same time have the empire to continue growing and have a similar result as OTL
 
I think, that it needs a way earlier pod ( Glorious Revolution, or a British victory in the ARW to save George´s face, maybe ?) , because of England´s unique and long history of parlamentism. An absolute Queen Victoria would make an interesting timeline. By the way, how much she was actually allowed to decide during her reign ?
 
1) as the others said, any attempt needs a much earlier PoD.
2) OTOH, it's probably impossible anyway. One of the reasons that Britain did so well at Empire building was because of its merchant base and manufacturing (later), which let the country punch WAY above its weight as a global power. If you have an absolute monarchy, that's a horrid environment for commercial success, so the country would be much weaker, and far less able to project power to build and keep an empire.
2a) if the Absolute monarchy precedes the 'nation of shopkeepers', then Britain never gains strength or any significant empire.
2b) if the Absolute monarchy is imposed AFTER the establishment of the commercial base, then you're going to get significant amounts of unrest at home, where people who used to have a say in the government are now excluded. That reduces the amount of power available abroad AND decreases the total amount of power available. Net result? Other powers start picking away at the edge of the empire, and the empire declines. Canada joins the US, for instance.
 
Hmm, with the reigning monarch George III due to go permanently 'mad' in 1811, George IV being a dissolute, self-destructive, self parody, then William IV being simply too inexperienced and bombastic to be taken seriously, it would be hard to imagine any monarch before Victoria attempting this. Even though she was quite the willful person who inspired a personality cult not seen since Elizabeth I, I seriously doubt she would have been able to pull it off- especially since the House of Commons had gained a GREAT deal of strength due to the three previous monarch's clay feet.
 
A direct explanation: This challenge is turn turn UK with a PoD after 1806 into a absolute monarchy, but at the same time have the empire to continue growing and have a similar result as OTL

- Great Depression
- a British monarch goes fascist
- fascist party gets majority of seats
- self-dissolution of parliament
- royal dictatorship
 
Going absolutist after the french revolution is hard - at this point absolutism is on the decline and defensive. Establishing an absolut monarchy in this period in a country that had been a parliamentary monarchy for centuries is not possible.

Another thing that i think is a prerequisite for absolutism is a big standing army loyal to the monarch. Brittain never really had that - because there was no need for it - and thats one of the reasons it never became an absolute monarchy.
 
Any absolutist Britain post-French Revolution wouldn't last long--think France in 1830. Britain lacked the sort of social situation that let a place like Russia keep absolutism for so long.

- Great Depression
- a British monarch goes fascist
- fascist party gets majority of seats
- self-dissolution of parliament
- royal dictatorship

I don't think any fascist group would accept the reigning king (or queen) as their leader, nor would a fascist group with a royal as the leader be able to get anywhere, so that would end up being something like Mussolini's Italy albeit with the King having a high place on a sort of Grand Council of Fascism.
 
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