In OTL, the newly-promoted Rear-Admiral Beatty was offered the post of second-in-command of the Atlantic Fleet - under a certain Rear-Admiral Jellicoe - in 1910. He refused, preferring to wait on a post that was more convenient for his social and domestic lives in the Home Fleet. This refusal was virtually career suicide - for a less well-connected officer, it would have been the end of his naval service. As it was, Beatty was ashore on half-pay for nearly two years, at which point he would have been forced to retire, before Churchill offered him the job of Private Naval Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty and saved his career.
What if Beatty is persuaded to take up the position with the Atlantic Fleet?
What if Beatty is persuaded to take up the position with the Atlantic Fleet?