Pausability + consequencesNapoleon III hostile to Britain

In otl despite his ancestry and claims to legitimacy in France Napoleon III was close to Britain.

Could he have achieved power if he was not?

Could anything have changed his opinion?

Is it possible for Britain and France to have intervened on oposite sides in the ACW?
 
Maybe if one of his earlier coups is successful. Maybe. But by the point of his OTL election, he was already a confirmed Anglophile. So you're going to need a POD fairly early in his life.
 
His being in power would certainly be tricky if it was the case.England and France had long since patched up what remained of their differences and were more concerned with other nations than each other.
I'd have to agree with wolf brother, going to have to change a lot about the man......and France.
 
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