WI United Kingdom with everyone

I have heard of other countries who wanted to be part of the UK but were turned down. But what if they said yes to everyone who asked post American Revolution?

Who would be in the UK
 
Back in 1947 Norway wanted to be a part of the United Kingdom.
The plan fell through beacuse Norway didn't want to giveup their own king. A dual kingdom was not an option for the british.
 
The trouble is butterflies.
Assume we get Hannover joining the UK in 1810 (just random pick there, not based on anthing), this would then create a very different world. WW2 certainly would not happen and so you wouldn't get Norway musing about joining.


For Norway to join...as said there's the monarchy issue. And the king of Norway was the wrong age to marry Elizabeth II even if we get rid of his wife and kids... I think you'd need to mess with who ends up as king of Norway so things are such that a marriage between his son and Elizabeth could happen. Have the political situation such that a union would be good politically and then the monarchal union can happen too.
I don't see it as too likely though.
 
Aargh...*bangs head on wall*
Not Malta! Malta did NOT want to join the UK, the referendum was boycotted by over half the population, it made absolutely not economic or strategic sense, so Malta would never integrate into the UK unless it was by force. And if it was, im sure the Arabs would have financed some kind of support to the inevitable local resistance (and yes, there would be a resistance).
 
Maybe Sicily?
If Sicily expels the Bourbon of Naples,and stay out of united Italy in 1860 The Nobles,maybe, can offer the crown of Island to Queen Victoria.
 
Maybe Sicily?
If Sicily expels the Bourbon of Naples,and stay out of united Italy in 1860 The Nobles,maybe, can offer the crown of Island to Queen Victoria.
The scenario you propose is pretty impossible, but in my TL Just one stroke of a pen I had a British 'Governate' of Sicily that was the result of bargianing and a joint invasion of the Two Sicilies by Piedmont and Britain (from Malta and the Ionians).
 
There was an offer by the french in the 50's which included taking on the British Monarchy aswell, however the British PM turned it down and the French pursued the Coal and Steel agreements instead with Germany and Italy...
 
I suppose it's not ridiculously impossible to have the British occupation zone in Germany or at least part of it to be integrated into the UK. Let's say that Churchill wins the '45 election and some how manages to have the British occupation zone turned into a resurrection of The Kingdom of Hanover and have it incorporated into the UK (i.e, the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Hanover).

Probably ASB in the extreme, but this is Churchill we're talking about after all ;)
 
Is it too ASB to think of the Isle of Man wanting to become part of the UK?

Not at all, its completely feasable at some point way back in the past the monarch could have decided to take it onto England as was done with Wales.
 
Any chance of William III uniting the Netherlands with Great Britain in the 1700s? What butterflies would be needed, or is it just ASB?
 
Any chance of William III uniting the Netherlands with Great Britain in the 1700s? What butterflies would be needed, or is it just ASB?

While possible, I can't see it being a happy Union. Seeing as the two nations had been at war now three times with each other I think they may not like suddenly being (more than likely) forced into a Union. But there are three other approaches you could take for an Anglo-Dutch union. The first would be if Elizabeth I did accept sovereignty over the newly made Dutch Provinces in 1584. This probably would've been a good Union, though Elizabeth never liked to get involved in European conflicts, so the problem would obviously be Spain wanting the Netherlands back.

Another possibility would be if what Elizabeth I did in OTL worked out, this was turning the newly made Netherlands into a 'protectorate' of England, with Robert Dudley as governor-general. We may see this working out so well that soon in the future the Netherlands becoming a Kingdom with the English/Scottish monarch taking it over.

Lastly, the possibility for an Anglo-Dutch union arose again during the time of the Cromwellian Commonwealth era. If I remember correctly, there was a Dutch statholder who was trying to take the crown or have an absolute rule sort of thing, and the Dutch requested an audience with Commonwealth delegates about a Union to keep the United Provinces safe. By the time the delegates reached the Provinces, the statholder had died and thus no Union was needed. This led to the Navigation Acts and then the four Anglo-Dutch Wars. If you can somehow keep the statholder alive then you could have an agreement reached with the English over a political union. This may not be very happy at first, though both the English and the Dutch around this time were more concentrated on their colonial Empires, thus we may see this alongside the religion play an important role in keeping a Union around.

Just some ideas :)
 
Any chance of William III uniting the Netherlands with Great Britain in the 1700s? What butterflies would be needed, or is it just ASB?

Well, I really don't feel it was too unlikely to ever happen. William III brought over his financiers, consisting of Sephardic Jews and French Huguenots. When the Bill of Rights was signed (finally) it cut down on the oppression of minorities, and Britain followed Holland in giving equal rights to all religions (with the possible exception of Catholicism). It has been said that the British Isles were the Balkans of the north, with so much conflict etc. It is these financiers that helped Britain conquer its vast empire, and the Dutch their respective empire.

Holland at the time was considered a "Crowned" republic, in that it had a hereditary monarch, but one who exercised even less power than the UK Royal Family today. If the Dutch Republic government was willing to turn itself in a kingdom then as was done OTL, then all that would be needed was the consent of Parliament and the King, who would have been more open to the idea: after all, what better way to consolidate your power than by absorbing other nations? It would have helped as well to shield The Netherlands from the prying eyes of France and Spain.

And thus, the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands is born.

That is one of the three most likely scenarios where the UK absorbs other nations, the Netherlands, France (both in WWII and the Suez Crisis) and Malta (after WWII). At least that's what I think.
 

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How about....

Olav V could have his first marriage annulled on the grounds of marrying his first cousin (!). Elizabeth's mother didn't like her love affair (by letters since the age of thirteen) with Phillip 'The Hun' as she called him. Her father insists it his her duty to marry Olav (she may have a lover, but not publicly). The crowns of these second cousins are united in 1939 for the first time since Harold Harefoot of England, Denmark and Norway in 1040. Olav calls for greater neutrality in Britain, which is ignored by the government of the day. When Norway is invaded he changes his tune and puts heavy pressure on the government to commit more forces to Norway. Having argued so strongly against the Prince over interventionism the government find their position weakened for opposing this (less goes into northern France in consequence). It would be embarrassing if the Kingdom of Norway was lost before it could be joined to the Empire.
 
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