AHC: United Kingdom of Scandinavia after Congress of Vienna

With a POD after 1812 if you choose to accept you must create a United Kingdom of Scandinavia which includes all of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Which is formed out of the aftermath of the Congress of Vienna.
 
The trouble is two of the big winners of the Napoleonic wars with Russia and Britain. Both of whom really don't like the idea of one nation, especially a powerful one, controlling the entrance to the Baltic.
Not to mention that Prussia wouldn't approve of a new and powerful nation on its northern border.

I think you would have to do it the old fashioned way and somehow get the heirs to Denmark and Sweden marrying each other and creating a new uber-heir. I really don't know enough of Denmark at the time to comment though.
 
The century-old, deep-seated passionate hatred between Sweden and Denmark would make any such proposition highly problematic. In the aftermath of the Finnish War, Sweden might decide to pick a Danish prince instead of Bernadotte as an heir, but I guess that most of Swedes whose opinion mattered would have preferred to see the country burn rather than beiong ruled by a Dane.
 
The century-old, deep-seated passionate hatred between Sweden and Denmark would make any such proposition highly problematic. In the aftermath of the Finnish War, Sweden might decide to pick a Danish prince instead of Bernadotte as an heir, but I guess that most of Swedes whose opinion mattered would have preferred to see the country burn rather than beiong ruled by a Dane.

You know they picked a Danish prince before Bernadotte?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_August,_Crown_Prince_of_Sweden
 
make the political Pan-Scandinavism movement in mid 19th century succed, following the succes of the Italian and German (under Prussia, given that it was allready a united Germany in all but name) unifications.

Most obvious way would be to make Sweden offer help against Prussia in Second Schleswig War, so the movement doesn't die
 
And before Charles August, they asked the King of Denmark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_VI_of_Denmark) to be the heir, actually. But for whatever reason, Frederick refused to take the title.
The way I heard it, it was for similar reasons Wilhelm I of Prussia rejected being Emperor of the Germans - he was fine with getting the title, but he wasn't fine with all the ideas of parliamentary power and making certain the king didn't coup himself absolutism again floating around
 
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