WI a Stuart claims the throne of Scotland under the SNP leadership

here's what i get about the SNP: their disdain to for everything English and London-based, could possibly trump everything else. So, the possibility of a legitimate male-line descendant of the House of Stuart, that moves back to Scotland in the 1920's (right after his benefactors where deposed after ww1), and his great-grandson is now living in Scotland, becomes the SNP's flag bearer for complete separation from england – including its London-based Queen.
The SNP are not totally anti anything which is English. There are some things they like about the UK and wanted to keep in the UK, for example, the pound. In fact I remember a common counter argument to the SNP during the independence referendum was "if you want to keep so many things from the UK, why not just stay in?" The Queen definitely falls into that category.
In the current political climate I cannot see the SNP selling the royal family (but not the principle of monarchy) as another part of the Union which is wrong. I find it even more unbelievable that a party in a western country would set up a completely new monarchy with an entirely different royal family. I think that would be step too far for many on the right, let alone in the SNP, which is a left wing party and likely has a large number of republicans in it already.
 
The SNP are not totally anti anything which is English. There are some things they like about the UK and wanted to keep in the UK, for example, the pound. In fact I remember a common counter argument to the SNP during the independence referendum was "if you want to keep so many things from the UK, why not just stay in?" The Queen definitely falls into that category.
In the current political climate I cannot see the SNP selling the royal family (but not the principle of monarchy) as another part of the Union which is wrong. I find it even more unbelievable that a party in a western country would set up a completely new monarchy with an entirely different royal family. I think that would be step too far for many on the right, let alone in the SNP, which is a left wing party and likely has a large number of republicans in it already.

agreed. to take a similar example, the Parti Quebecois, had they won either the 1980 or 1995 referendum *might* possibly have retained the british crown, at least in the short term, for reason of continuity even though the PQ (and the population as a whole) are not exactly monarchist enthusiasts.

What however is completely implausible to me would be for the government to invite the Count of Paris to become King of Quebec based on the idea that prior to the british conquest, quebec was a royal french province.

The problem is that the argument of "legitimacy" just don't float in the modern world. People would perceive the monarch as a foreigner and the monarchy itself would be perceived a new one, not the re-establishement of a part of the national fiber. The later would apply, I suspect, even if the noblemen in question was native born.
 
aw man you guys really know how take the wind out of my sails!!! I just want to create an ATL which has a restored Stuard to a Modern-day Scotland... can't you give a newbie some slack?
 
aw man you guys really know how take the wind out of my sails!!! I just want to create an ATL which has a restored Stuard to a Modern-day Scotland... can't you give a newbie some slack?

The problem is that you're trying to do it by making political force in Scotland at most apathetic to the monarchy into monarchists for a new monarchy under an old dynasty. You'd need to totally change the political alignment of the SNP into a more right wing nationalistic bent. But right wing nationalism tends to be very pro-Union. So you'd need to just remake the whole thing.
 
The problem is that you're trying to do it by making political force in Scotland at most apathetic to the monarchy into monarchists for a new monarchy under an old dynasty. You'd need to totally change the political alignment of the SNP into a more right wing nationalistic bent. But right wing nationalism tends to be very pro-Union. So you'd need to just remake the whole thing.
Seperatism is not really an exclusively left wing idea though. Generally, separatists come from whatever part of the political spectrum which would benefit by leaving. Scotland is more left wing than the rest of the UK, so it would benefit the left if it were independent. Hence why the SNP are a left wing party. Same goes for Plaid in Wales. However, since England is generally more right wing than the rest of the Union, the few nationalists we have (English Democrats) are far on the right.
It wasnt always like that though. The Tories only started to decline in Scotland around the early 1960s, and up until that point the SNP were a largely non ideological party with right wing and left wing elements to it. With a post war PoD (no idea what) you could probably make Scotland more right wing than England, leading the SNP to become a right wing party.
Even then though, I think it is unlikely they would adopt Jacobitism without a significantly stronger sentiment for it surviving than IOTL. You'd probably need an earlier PoD for that.
 
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