Challenge: Earliest Union of Britannia

Perhaps the Romans manage to conquer all of it, and so leaving more of a unified state?

Would an earlier wedding of the monarchies be possible, or would it be rejected more forcefully by the populous?

Perhaps the Romans do worse, and fail to get a foothold on England, causing Britannia to be the last stronghold of the Celts?
 
Your first one sounds like the best bet, probably looking at a breakaway emperor tho of course those were always too focused on getting to Rome instead of looking after themselves

Maybe if Rome went the Alexandrine way

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Grey Wolf
 
Perhaps a more substantial Roman conquest of Britannia leaving most of the island under occupation followed by subsequent civil war. Maybe have a general launch an uprising and claim Britannia as his own state.
 
There's nothing implausible about a post-Roman warlord, or a consolidated Brythonic state, taking over all of Great Britain before the point at which "England" or "Scotland" really existed OTL (and I'd be very interested to see the ideas explored), but to consider points after the said kingdoms came to exist, the Cromwellian Commonwealth surviving would give you 57 years on OTL.
 
An earlier unified Britannia might occur as a result of the Scots loosing the wars of independence. Then you'd get a unified Britannia under the Plantagenets
 
Would some sort of Viking conquest work?

It would probably just make things more fragmentary, since even if the Vikings conquered more and kept it (which isn't really very likely) their power-bases would be weaker and more Denmark-oriented than Saxo-Norman England was, meaning a better chance for peripheral Celtic states.
 
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