Is it possible for there to be a state that is known as "The Holy Roman Empire of the British Nation"? This state would be decentralized like OTLs HRE. How could it come about and how would it fare?
Is it possible for there to be a state that is known as "The Holy Roman Empire of the British Nation"? This state would be decentralized like OTLs HRE. How could it come about and how would it fare?
Not impossible, I suppose, as such an entity could come into being through a series of history contorting events, even if highly improbable and implausible ones. Would there be any reason for charlemagne to go to "England"? Perhaps to discover if Jerusalem was indeed builded there!?
Maybe we can get the Roman part with survival of the Romano-British culture after the Roman departure (avoiding Anglo-Saxon conquest)?
Is the House of Hanover the answer here?
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Either, Hanover abandons the Salic Law, or there is a male successor to William IV of England, and by 1864 (150 years after the accession to the British throne of George I), the Holy Roman Empire of the Germanic Nations is preeminent among the Great Powers.