Other Potential Names of a Unified British Isles

And, ironically enough, a Papal bull....
Besides it was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, there's never been such a thing as the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
I believe George III wanted to call it Empire of the Britons.
 
But there's no recognition of Ireland in that name. To use your USA example, that's like naming the USA "the United States of New England" or something. For a country where the Irish already have a persecution complex and jump at the chance to protest about their treatment, that's almost like declaring the Irish being treated as second class citizens is an official government policy.

I was trying to backform Britain as a synonym of "British Islands" given that the main island is called Great Britain. (United) Kingdom of the British Islands would also be more elegant than UKGB(N)I (and its most common short-hand name would revert to Britain anyway).

Also... United States of New England, New York, the Carolinas............. United States of Eastern North America. :D
 
And, ironically enough, a Papal bull....
Besides it was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, there's never been such a thing as the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
I believe George III wanted to call it Empire of the Britons.

There has been a Kingdom of Great Britain, though. And I'd be surprised if that was the title George wanted, as it was George himself who refused to be made an Emperor. The title offered to him was Emperor of the British Isles.
 
Avalon

I allways thought the titles were either, The Isles of Avalon or, with reference to England proper, Albion - could be wrong, my reference point is having just listened to Rick Wakemans Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table! Cracking good music.
 
OK this is still more research for my new TL, Apollinis et Dianae. I'm wondering about alternative names for the Unified British Isles, rather than the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. What other names could be used? I know there was some talk about making George III Emperor of the British Isles in around 1800, when the union between Britain and Ireland came about, but other than that was there any other ideas considered? I'm partial to the Kingdom/Empire of Britannia. It was the Roman name for the island of Britain, the name for the female representation of England and later Britain, and was used as the Empire name for Crusader Kings II (weak argument I know). Not to mention it was the name in one of my favorite animes, Code Geass. So any other ideas or possibilities or was the UK the only realistic pick?

Commonwealth of England :D
 
Since the devolution process began in the nineties, there has been some genuine traction for the name of the archipelago to be changed to 'Iona'. Which is quite elegant: The name of a Hebridean island, a pre-Norman, dual culture monestary and the triple whammy of standing for Isands Of the North Atlantic.

This idea has been rattling round for a while, mainly in Dublin and Stormont, wary of British dominace understandibly, but it has it's fans in Holyrood and Cardiff too. I have a feeling it may been voiced in Westminster, but I'm not sure.
 
the Protectorate of Albion, led by a lord protector

Unlikely, the Protectorate was officially known as the 'Protectorate of England, Scotland and Ireland'. You'd need some pretty major butterflies to have an Albion concept plus a Protectorate. If the Protectorate continues, you're more likely to have a Protectorate of Great Britain or the British Isles (at a guess, still currently investigating). Albion as a Protectorate is unlikely though.
 
Since the devolution process began in the nineties, there has been some genuine traction for the name of the archipelago to be changed to 'Iona'. Which is quite elegant: The name of a Hebridean island, a pre-Norman, dual culture monestary and the triple whammy of standing for Isands Of the North Atlantic.

This idea has been rattling round for a while, mainly in Dublin and Stormont, wary of British dominace understandibly, but it has it's fans in Holyrood and Cardiff too. I have a feeling it may been voiced in Westminster, but I'm not sure.

It's also never going to happen, considering that it's a pretty fringe suggestion even among the Welsh and Scottish nationalists (and a minority of the Irish in Stormont), who are themselves minorities within Wales, Scotland and, slimly, Northern Ireland, who are themselves significantly outweighed in voting power by England, where it's even more of a fringe movement. Ireland may attempt to do it themselves for official maps and so forth, but even then I doubt it would get much traction.

Not to mention that it'll never be used academically, as it excludes the other islands of Greenland, Iceland, the Faeroes, Newfoundland etc. and includes Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel islands which aren't even in the North Atlantic. Indeed, the only official organisation to use it includes these islands as part of the grouping.
 
The Islands of Constant Cloud- apologies to the maoris in New Zealand.
No its too similar to the Islands of Mist as said before in this thread.
How about the Kingdom of Jacobia (or Jacobea). That would recognise the fact that the first ruler of all the Kingdoms was JamesI (or VIth) and doesn't use any of the component names although I'm fairly certain that there would be little traction for anything but the United Kingdom of ....
 
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