Surviving Kingdom of Cornwall

Can anyone come up with a logical way for Cornwall to survive as a kingdom until modern times, they do not have to have an empire or anything else ASB would like, just be independant.

As I understand they were never conquered by England by rather co-opted during saxon times. They had their own dynasty and distinct national identity that would only have strengthened over time, so could they stay independant?

Just out of interest.

It would be nice if it could fit about what is shown in yellow on this map, but it doesnt have to:)

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Simple - no Battle of Bath and then have the Vikings smash Wessex into lots of very teeny tiny pieces. :D
 
It might be possible to create some sort of situation where Cornwall survives as a distinct entity to England in a vassalised/union situation and regains full independence in the 19th/20th Century (thus not continuously independent, but always recognised as a Kingdom and independent again today), but by itself, the resource base is just too small compared to England, or indeed some of the continental powers.
 
Cornwall is at an incredible demographic disadvantage to its eastern neighbor. Even if England could be kept disunited over the long-term - unlikely given the regional geography - Cornwall is still going to be drawn into southern England's economic orbit and will be very hard-pressed to maintain independence.

So a fully independent Cornwall might be nigh-impossible, but on the other hand a Cornwall independent from England specifically could be quite simple to achieve: a stronger Romano-British remnant in western GB that managed to fight off the Anglo-Saxons could include Cornwall.
 
Is that why France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Syria, Israel, Turkey and all the other nations within the former Roman Empire are one nation today?

It's why all those countries exist where they could each be 10-100 different mini-states. To put it more accurately, disunited areas of common heritage and ancestry have a tendency to unify.
 
If you could get England disunited and then have Cornwall get backing by other powers then it could conceivably take larger portions of England and allow it to survive.
 

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Bizarrely, Charles I offered to restore an independent Cornwall (in personal union with England) during the Civil War in return for support from Sir Bevil Grenville.
 
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