WI: The Maid of Norway lives and marries Edward II?

So I was thinking when was the earliest the British Isles could be unified and found Margaret, Maid of Norway and Queen of Scots. If she had lived, she would have no doubt married Edward II, thus unifying England and Scotland. So how would this change history? For one, England wouldn't have a claim on France but what else?
 
So I was thinking when was the earliest the British Isles could be unified and found Margaret, Maid of Norway and Queen of Scots. If she had lived, she would have no doubt married Edward II, thus unifying England and Scotland. So how would this change history? For one, England wouldn't have a claim on France but what else?

Thr problems between England and France after the 1200's began when the French King used Crusader funds to build himself a Navy then conspired to rob King Edward I of his ancestral lands in Gascony. The following is what I wrote on another thread:

"A naval clash between Normans on one side and the Gascons and English on the other (probably instigated by Charles of Valois - who had been proclaimed King of Aragon before the French invasion and never actually held court there but refused to relinquish his cliam to the title despite having no hope of taking the throne and blamed Edward's intervention for robbing him of this title) gave the French the pretext to close around Gascony and look to take control.

Edward sought to smooth the matter over and sent official political ambassadors and his brother to appeal for negotiation. Philip IV refused to negotiate in insulting terms - refusing to recognized Edward's right as King for negotiation, recognizing him only as a vassal - while Edmund recieved Philip's blessing as family - he was both Philip's cousin and step-father-in-law - to work out a deal with Philip's wife, mother and mother-in-law to avoid conflict and come to suitable terms for both sides.

The deal was agreed that Edward would relinquish his lands in Gascony voluntarilly along with handing hostages from the region to French costdy then he would submit to a public dressing-down which soon after would be reveresed, his disgressions againsrt France forgiven and his lands restored.

But in this Edward, Edmund and the Royal ladies were decieved. Philip and the French court had no intention of honoring this agreement and when Edward forfilled his part of the bargin Philip used the pretext that the Duke of Aquitaine had failed to answer a summons from the French King to declare his lands forfiet. This led to war between England and France but the French King had been using funds raised for the Crusade to build himself a mighty fleet, thus the French conspiracy was complete and the English were left scrambling to responde.

Though Gascony was later restored to Edward's control by Papal intervention the betrayal of his cousin, the French King, had thown Edward's own kingdom into dissary as Welsh and Scottish rebellions broke out while English troops were mustered to go to the rescue of Gascony and civil war threatened as Edward sought funds and manpower
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Therefore, I doubt whatever happened in Scotland was going to effect the conflict between England and France beginning on the continent.
 
Obviously this has huge effects.

Margaret and Edward II are crowned as monarchs of Scotland. The Bruces may try and revolt somewhere along the line due to increasing English influence but by and large Scotland has been secured for England in TTL.

Now as the above poster pointed out, this doesn't change the conflict between England and France over Gascony (though butterflies could mean that it's solved diplomatically?). It also probably won't change the Welsh revolt of 1294-95. If England and France do go to war, the lack of a Scottish war would affect things dramatically. In OTL England sent less than 10k men to Flanders (compared to 30k sent to Scotland) to help their allies, they arrived late and didn't contribute much to the campaign. However in TTL the conflict with France is going to be England's main conflict and see a major application of force. I could see a joint Anglo-Flemish force having considerable success against the French in 1297-1300.

Also I'd wager that being married to Margaret at such an early age would have a considerable effect on Edward II. He's not going to be the same guy as OTL.
 
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