WI: Carlists in United Kingdom?

[GlobalHumanism]

The Carlists were a powerful faction in the revolutionary period of 20s and 30s Spain that sought the return of absolute monarchy as opposed to the power of parliamentary democracy.

What sort of PoD is needed for a similar faction to emerge in turn of the century Britain?

For instance, could a more active (politically) Queen Victoria have spurred such a movement?
Might a more regal and less lavish Edwardian morchary done the same?

 

[Gonzo]

Maybe keep the Jacobite High Tories around in prominence for a longer period of time.

 

[Alexander the Average]

As I understand it two of the main features of the Carlists was their support for a pretender Monarch and a strong belief in preserving and nurturing regional cultures. You'd probably need a pre-1900 PoD to get a decent analogue, but maybe if you had some Stuarts kicking around and trying to reclaim their throne, building a populist movement amongst British Catholics and soft Celtic nationalists.

 

[QuentinEdwardDevrill]

It's a bit more complex than royal heritage, you need also a dominant church that is against parlamentary government and high class aristochracy that want's little or no industry so land ownership and quasifeudal servitude are the basis of the economy.

U.K. has enough worship freedom tradition and more important, too much indsutry to develop that movement past 1830.

 

[deathscompanion1]

It's a bit more complex than royal heritage, you need also a dominant church that is against parlamentary government and high class aristochracy that want's little or no industry so land ownership and quasifeudal servitude are the basis of the economy.

U.K. has enough worship freedom tradition and more important, too much indsutry to develop that movement past 1830.

Heh.