Balkanised britan

drakle

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Have Wales, Scotland, Ireland (no North Ireland) and at least 2 different British Kingdoms that slowly grow apart in culture (Like Austria and Germany) survive to modern day as separate states.
 
John Lackland lives another 10-20 years, and manages to salvage enough loyal forces to hold northern England against Louis the Lion, but not enough to push Louis out of the south. The Barons' War ends in a truce with John ruling the North out of York and Louis ruling the rest of England out of London.

Scotland might adopt a policy of alliance with the northern kingdom against attempts by the southern kingdom to force reuinification (since the north alone is too weak to threaten Scotland, and the north will probably develop economic and cultural ties with the Scottish lowlands), and France would likewise support the south if the north tries to force reunification (since the south would be in personal union with France for at least a generation or two).

And so long as England remains divided, Welsh and Scottish independence are safe.
 
Divided England after the Norman conquest is unlikely, but the others can probably all be reasonably accomplished with a PoD in the HYW era, as long as it takes place before Wales is fully broken, sometime around the end of the aforementioned war. Stopping the Tudors might help Wales to feel more like it is being occupied by foreigners, and give them a situation where they solicit outside forces to help them secede like Ireland did in OTL. One successful intervention is all it'll take to free Wales, and a little while of competent rule to get it to stay that way.

Ireland and Scotland are fairly easy in this scenario, Scotland just has to remain allied to France and not form a union with England, while Ireland can break away either by native uprising, or by having an ambitious Englishman take control during a period of civil war and refuse to submit to the crown. As for splitting England, not of their own accord, but if they lose a major war with France, the French might install a puppet regime over a portion of England and alow another part to be free, similar to OTL's Vichy France
 
just have the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms persist, though i don't know how easy this would be on an island
 
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