Jacobite Bonaparte Royal House

Napoleon tries harder to conquer Britain? Possibly costing him elsewhere?
Problem is though was there really much more that he could of done? Once his navy is blockaded up in port or later sunk you can't really try that much harder.
 

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Hmmm....I think a napoleonic sealion is even less likely than a German one, but I'm not sure...

The french had landed twice in the UK (once in Ireland, once in Wales) - both times the expeditions were basically diversions but yeah (they sent convicts in the welsh expedition).
 
Well, basically the Jacobite pretentions fall to a Bonaparte and Jacobite considers this Bonaparte and his family as the Righteous King of England, Scotland, Ireland and France (because the Jacobites never gave up their claim on France, contrary to George III :D)

After that, Jacobite pretentions were already dying out by the 1800s. Not to mention there was still a legitimate pretender for the Jacobites : Cardinal Henry Bernard Stuart, claimant as Henry IX & I. If I'm not wrong, he died during the 1800-1815 period and was already pretty old and unmarried (thanks to his position as Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church :rolleyes:). And after he died OTL, Jacobites became a tiny minority which few are listening.

Not even sure Napoleon would try to institute a relative on the English throne with such a low claim and after one century of Hanoverian rule. He would be tempted by an invasion of Britain to neutralise it, but put a relative on the throne? He had the occasion to do this with Prussia or Austria and never did. He did for Spain and Naples, but the Neapolitan rulers he overthrowed weren't loved by their people and it turned out badly for Joseph in Spain.
 
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