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My hope is to make a start on a British Revolution in the 18th century TL (Sort of a parralel to the French one) and was on the lookout for potential POD's when I came across one which might be what I'm looking for. At his coronation, King George II was advised by his wife to drop Sir Spencer Compton as a potential Prime Minister and instead give support to Robert Walpole. The POD would be the King ignoring this advice and Compton getting his support while the latter would undermine Walpole's career as revenge and thus prevent him from achieving high office.

This would set the precedent with George II having a strong political hold over the country that would carry onto his son Frederick who see his own power grow with a succession of weak Prime Ministers dependant on Royal patronage. This becomes coupled with a series of bad Wars and Bonnie Prince Charlie being marginaly more successful, coupled with a different American Revolution that nevertheless sees several ideas sinking back to Britain that would help form the nucleus of its own Revolutionary movement against an unpopular and increasingly oppresive Monarchy.

It'd have various factors like the Lunar Society forming the backbone of the Revolution, John Moore becoming rather close to a Napoleon analogue and a weaker British Empire to say the least. Does this sound likely/interesting though? What could be done to make it more plausible?
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