Hi, new to this forum and to exploring alternate history. I admit to not being an expert on politics, but I was wondering what the impact on monarchy as an institution would be if the French revolution didn't happen. Would it still be going strong today?
France's system only works under a good king, from the way I understand it, but what if (non-bloody) changes were made, like a shared authority between the monarch and a parliament?
What if the royalists won the English civil war? Would parliament have been dissolved? Can the "monarch-and-parliament shared authority" government scenario happen? What if there was no English civil war?
What kind of scenario would allow French and English royals to still have political power to this day?