It almost happened, but that crowning piece of stupidity, World War One, killed the idea.
America, Australia, Canada and [del]Airstrip One[/del] the UK all one political entity? That sounds doubleplusgood!
Merde Bourbon-Legitimiste! Vive les Bonapartes!
See, now if George III or Lord North had thought of that . . . or if somebody had thought of it back in 1707 (when the Act of Union changed Britain’s constitutional form) or in 1686 (when the Crown tried unsuccessfully to form a Dominion of New England), why then, as Jefferson wrote wistfully in the first draft of the DOI, of the British and the Americans, “We might have been a great and free people together.”
I would love a Viceroy of Ohio!
I will never submit to the indignity of…cricket!!!
I fight.
Today is a good day for somebody else to die.
Enjoy your new national anthem!
Sounds like The Two Georges.
I like it!
No, there’s a big difference: In the British Empire of The Two Georges, there is no all-representative Imperial Parliament; the British/Westminster Parliament (for which only Brits can vote) remains supreme over all the Empire’s other territories – somehow the “compromises” George Washington worked out with George III meant the Yanks would accept a no-representation role in exchange for guarantees of local autonomy, or something – the details are never made clear.
This means that in that Universe, a Parliament with no representatives from slaveholding territories abolishes slavery in 1832, as in our timeline. It would have taken longer, I think, if the decision had to be made by an Imperial Parliament with representatives from the Southeast-American colonies and the Caribbean sugar islands.
Anyway, Elizabeth II is still the rightful Queen of France, so there.