British and French empires survive

I was wondering what kind of POD would you need so that France and Britain's empires do not start to break apart after WW2 and survive to the modern day as serious world powers?
 
I was wondering what kind of POD would you need so that France and Britain's empires do not start to break apart after WW2 and survive to the modern day as serious world powers?

A more tolerant Britain could form an alliance with Germany. The power of such a coalition is enough of a deterrent to prevent WW1 from ever happening, Europe is harmonious indefinitely. Unlikely loss of colonies due to the lack of economically detrimental conflict which led to such a loss in OTL.
 
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An American civil war which results in to separate nations would be a good start.

Some sort of movement in the late 18th and early 19th C to treat all colonial subjects as equals, similar to the anti slavery movement in the early 18th C would also help.

On the British side specifically a few things might have kept it going a lot longer. A home rule bill which managed to keep Ireland in the empire in the mid 19th C might for example.

The British dealing with the Boer situation before it turned into an actual war would also have made a real difference. Once the British had to resort to an actual war, the Pax Britannica which made the empire so great was pretty much over.

The problem with making the British Empire last is that all the countries within it are so different. Forging a lasting relationship of equal nation which could have lasted would be near impossible.
 
A more tolerant Britain could form an alliance with Germany. The power of such a coalition is enough of a deterrent to prevent WW1 from ever happening, Europe is harmonious indefinitely. Unlikely loss of colonies due to the lack of economically detrimental conflict which led to such a loss in OTL.

And the Brits overcome the population difference by...
 
I've got a few ideas for Britain:

- Never have America fully unite.

- America split through Civil War (as KASSAP said).

- Don't allow/have Germany unite. Or if you do, then not under a militaristic state (i.e. Prussia).

- No World Wars.

- Free Trade within the Empire and high tariffs outside it. (Creates reliance by all nations in Empire on one another).

- Joseph Chamberlain as PM in an overall majority of Imperial Preference MPs. (Likely to create Imperial Federation).

- Have the British East Indian Company keep control over India. They did a good job of keeping Anglo-Indian relations good before Victorian racism entered the equation.

Most of the effective ones from this list are pre-1900's though.
 
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