WI Britain and France went into a political union

This was also proposed by Churchill during WWII just prior to the fall of France who rejected it then.

Given such a political link, would the British Monarch then rule over France ? or would they be relegated as it were ?

Fundamental sticking point I suspect which Mollet wouldn't have been able to push through on one side nor Eden on the other
 
Do you really think that the French people would accept Elizabeth II as monarch? This would completely negate the idea of French republicanism, even if by this time Britain was long a constitutional monarchy. Yes, there are historical prescidents for royal unions between the two countries, but not anywhere near the modern period.

There is also the question of religion. The reigning monarch of Britain is the Defender of the Church of England. What would happen if she became the Queen of France? She would become the queen of a officially secular nation that is a predominately Catholic country. She would have a two options: drop her "defensor fidei" and disestablish the Church of England, or rule her French subjects as she rules her English Catholic subjects: as a minority group that enjoy religious liberty with the exclusion of certain rights, mainly the prohibition of royal succession. If she were to become the Queen of France, it might happen that one of her princes would like to take a French woman as queen. Besides running afoul of the Act of Succession, she would run afoul of French republicanism, Rome, as well as those in England who wouldn't stand for the disestablishment of the C of E.

I also doubt that the British and the French people would easily accede a non-democratic union of their two countries. If an Anglo-French union were put to a vote, I suggest that it would fail in both countries by huge margins.
 
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Was political union between Britain and France thought of a way for both nations to retain their empires after World War II?
 
I think the WW2 union was to keep France as a combattant and have a French govt fighting from the empire.
 
Do you really think that the French people would accept Elizabeth II as monarch? This would completely negate the idea of French republicanism, even if by this time Britain was long a constitutional monarchy. Yes, there are historical prescidents for royal unions between the two countries, but not anywhere near the modern period.

There is also the question of religion. The reigning monarch of Britain is the Defender of the Church of England. What would happen if she became the Queen of France? She would become the queen of a officially secular nation that is a predominately Catholic country. She would have a two options: drop her "defensor fidei" and disestablish the Church of England, or rule her French subjects as she rules her English Catholic subjects: as a minority group that enjoy religious liberty with the exclusion of certain rights, mainly the prohibition of royal succession. If she were to become the Queen of France, it might happen that one of her princes would like to take a French woman as queen. Besides running afoul of the Act of Succession, she would run afoul of French republicanism, Rome, as well as those in England who wouldn't stand for the disestablishment of the C of E.

I also doubt that the British and the French people would easily accede a non-democratic union of their two countries. If an Anglo-French union were put to a vote, I suggest that it would fail in both countries by huge margins.


Church of ENGLAND!! Not church of Britain. She is, apparently, not the head of the Church of Scotland, I don't know if she happens to be head of the Church of Ireland or of Wales (all of which are independent national churches). The Church of Scotland is even a different denomination (namely Presbyterian). So the religion issue (involving the Queen/King) is a total non-issue.

AFAIK, the law prohibiting RC's from lesser office was abolished some time back, but I'm not totally positive on that.
 
AFAIK, the law prohibiting RC's from lesser office was abolished some time back, but I'm not totally positive on that.

Yeahg I mean that only happened recetly, in like 1829. Catholics would enjoy no loss of rights - except succession.

Doesn't make this anymore likely really though, what contemporay wants this genuinely?
 
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