What would it take for British dominions to be given their own monarchs?

Exactly as it says on the title. What would it take for full blown monarchies , made up of branches of the main dynasty in Britain, to be established in the dominions? And beyond the dominions, how would non white colonies react to be given their own specific monarch of pure British descent, at least in the beginning? How would South Africa deal with having it's own specific monarch, since this would technically allow them to become independent without losing the monarchy? Furthermore, would it ever be possible for these monarchs to be given more power to themselves, after staring out with as much power, if even less, than the main British monarch?
 
You need to develop the future Dominions while at the same time preventing the invention of the steamship and telegraph. The Monarch in Britain would also have to be recognised as High King or Emperor over the lesser monarchs.
 
You need to develop the future Dominions while at the same time preventing the invention of the steamship and telegraph. The Monarch in Britain would also have to be recognised as High King or Emperor over the lesser monarchs.
Why would the invention of steamships and telegraphs need to be prevented?
 
Because faster communications makes direct access to the monarch relatively easy and a separate monarchy irrelevant. Why would a colonial government pay to support a court when you can get a message to the monarch in hours (minutes over a dedicated wire) or visit in person after a journey of a few days in the case of Canada.
 
As always, much depends on your POD. 1700's, 1800's, 1900's?

I could see something coming out of the American Revolution...The American colonies want some form of self government. Despite many AH posts about it, I just cannot see the UK accepting the idea of colonial MP's (let alone peers). But, someone in the Ministry is sitting up at night thinking about the dual problems of keeping restive colonies and getting rid of a crazy king. After enough time, thought, and good liquor, an idea emerges. Give the American colonies their own Parliament (a la' Scotland), and their own monarch. It could be the second in line to the throne or something like that-nothing that opens the possibility of a competing line. Then, kick Mad George up to the title of Emperor, and get a new king of Great Britain.

Another option is to make a "Prince of America" similar to the existing "Prince of Wales". That might be enough to mollify the Americans. It also has the advantage of reverting to the crown upon succession, and may be left vacant in the future if things settle down.
 
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As always, much depends on your POD. 1700's, 1800's, 1900's?
Truth be told, I'm mostly interested in getting South Africa and Australia monarchs who actually live in the countries themselves, instead of one that lives in Britain. To that end, I'm not concerned about the POD, so much as I'm concerned about them having their own semi-unique monarchs. So, Pod doesn't matter to me as much as long as it leads to that.

I'd also be interested in seeing the social effects of these monarchies on non white majority colonies and seeing if any of these monarchies, in a white colony or not, could ever increase it's power at least to a German level.

So, yeah I'd be okay with any Pod as long as it gets the job done. I'm just looking to explore some ideas here that result from such events.
 
Unlike the rest of the Commonwealth, Australia refuses to recognise the abdication of King Edward in 1937 and when he abdicated in London, he travels South and takes up residence at the Yarralumla Palace in Canberra as Edward I of Australia.

But Edward dies in 1972 with no heirs, the Crown Constitution of Australia dictating that Parliament and the Prime Minister could select a new King.

The Duke of Anjou and Cadiz is invited in, and the House of Bourbon takes the Australian throne as the House of Bourbon-Australis
 
What if one of the sons of a king asked to be king of a colony, since he won't be king of Britain? How would that go over?
 
They've all got Governor Generals or Viceroys. There was a period mid-late 19th century when royal princes were either doing these jobs, or wanting to. A standardisation where the it becomes the norm for them to do so could then have them be under-kings to the Emperor/Empress back in Britain
 
They've all got Governor Generals or Viceroys. There was a period mid-late 19th century when royal princes were either doing these jobs, or wanting to. A standardisation where the it becomes the norm for them to do so could then have them be under-kings to the Emperor/Empress back in Britain
I can work with that. With princes serving in the role as Governer Generals becoming the standard, the role is then reformatted into them being Under Kings of the colonies to the High King in Britain.
 
I recall that around 1901 there was the proposal for the offices and titles of Prince of Australia and Prince of Canada to be established, which could be used quite easily for these purposes.
 
I recall that around 1901 there was the proposal for the offices and titles of Prince of Australia and Prince of Canada to be established, which could be used quite easily for these purposes.
That can work too, especially if one for South Africa could be made, as I'm really interested in South Africa and Australia being having a type of duality/rivalry in which one or both are kingdoms and speak English and yet they end up representing very different things from each other.

In addition to dominions being kingdoms or Princedoms, is there a way for each nation to establish it's own titled nobility/aristocracy?

And how would majority non white colonies react to a white prince or monarch/nobility/aristocracy in general being assigned to rule over them in some form? It doesn't have to be British as this question in particular applies to European colonies in general.
 
is there a way for each nation to establish it's own titled nobility/aristocracy?
There were attempts in the 1850s to establish a colonial peerage in Australia, however these were wildly unpopular at the time, and Australia didn't create a system of honours until 1975.​
 
There were attempts in the 1850s to establish a colonial peerage in Australia, however these were wildly unpopular at the time, and Australia didn't create a system of honours until 1975.​
That makes sense. If I were to have Australia as a kingdom, it would be very egalitarian , with its monarch an exception.
 
A revolution, invasion, or some other defeat of the monarchy in the home islands could lead that way. It'd probably help to have the respective Windsors marry into the local aristocracy, which could be done in the Raj as soon as necessary post-Victoria.
 
That can work too, especially if one for South Africa could be made, as I'm really interested in South Africa and Australia being having a type of duality/rivalry in which one or both are kingdoms and speak English and yet they end up representing very different things from each other.

In addition to dominions being kingdoms or Princedoms, is there a way for each nation to establish it's own titled nobility/aristocracy?

And how would majority non white colonies react to a white prince or monarch/nobility/aristocracy in general being assigned to rule over them in some form? It doesn't have to be British as this question in particular applies to European colonies in general.

I suspect in South Africa at least the aristocracy wouldn't be white - I could easily see the British in such a system creating an African equivalent of the Salute State system of India (which is incidentally the answer to the question of what an Indian aristocracy under the Raj would look like), where native titles are recognized, organised and rationalised with somebody like the King of the Zulus getting a 21 gun salute down to some village chieftain getting just three.
 
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