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As the UK's economy pitched and convulsed in the aftermath of Brexit, the SNP gathered up strength for a second referendum. Their efforts met an unsolicited boon when a Liechtensteiner prince, Joseph Wenzel, arrived to advocate Scottish independence and Pan-Europeanism. Joseph was more than a standard continental cultural elite, however, and his identity kindled an ancient ambition in the national heart of Scotland: for he was the most senior grandson of Duke Franz of Bavaria, the Jacobite claimant to the throne of the United Kingdom. A date for another referendum was finally set for 2024, and a year later, Queen Elizabeth II died, leaving her bumbling son Charles as king. This precipitated Joseph to announce his intension to renew a part of his ancestors' claim and become the King of Scots. It was not so preposterous as it might have been: Joseph was a British citizen born in London, he was fluent in English, and he had converted to Presbyterianism. He even reissued his announcement in surprisingly good Gaelic.

Thoroughly disgusted with England and with Charles III, Scotland voted overwhelmingly for independence--but they were not alone. Teetering on the brink of chaos with the unraveling Good Friday Agreement and a suddenly isolated economy, Northern Ireland was tangling itself into a debate over whether to leave Britain and join the Irish Republic. Just as the threat of violence began to look credible, someone realized that the UK was, after all, a united kingdom, and that when the two halves disunited there was no reason why Ulster couldn't choose to stick with Scotland over England. It was a controversial idea, but one with merit. Northern Ireland not only had a large community of ethnic Scots, but in general the region had historically been closer to Scotland that to the rest of the island; it was where the Scots had originally come from before they overran the Picts in the 9th century. Every point along the ideological spectrum in Belfast was divided, but a majority could find something to like in the arrangement. The Ulster Unionists figured that one protestant monarch was as good as another, and that they had never really liked the English much beyond that; Sinn Fèin, on the other had, preferred reunion with the Catholic south, but a mix of Pan-Celticism, fear of a new Troubles, and the pragmatic notion that they could win something very close to a union with the republic when back in the EU convinced enough of their voters to get onboard with the plan.

Joseph was crowned the King of Scots and Northern Ireland the day that the independence vote succeeded, taking the regnal name James IX and changing the name of his dynasty to the House of Jacob. Less than a month later, the European Union waived normal procedures to admit the new Kingdom of Scotland and Northern Ireland back into the continental union.

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As the UK's economy pitched and convulsed in the aftermath of Brexit, the SNP gathered up strength for a second referendum. Their efforts met an unsolicited boon when a Liechtensteiner prince, Joseph Wenzel, arrived to advocate Scottish independence and Pan-Europeanism. Joseph was more than a standard continental cultural elite, however, and his identity kindled an ancient ambition in the national heart of Scotland: for he was the most senior grandson of Duke Franz of Bavaria, the Jacobite claimant to the throne of the United Kingdom. A date for another referendum was finally set for 2024, and a year later, Queen Elizabeth II died, leaving her bumbling son Charles as king. This precipitated Joseph to announce his intension to renew a part of his ancestors' claim and become the King of Scots. It was not so preposterous as it might have been: Joseph was a British citizen born in London, he was fluent in English, and he had converted to Presbyterianism. He even reissued his announcement in surprisingly good Gaelic.

Thoroughly disgusted with England and with Charles III, Scotland voted overwhelmingly for independence--but they were not alone. Teetering on the brink of chaos with the unraveling Good Friday Agreement and a suddenly isolated economy, Northern Ireland was tangling itself into a debate over whether to leave Britain and join the Irish Republic. Just as the threat of violence began to look credible, someone realized that the UK was, after all, a united kingdom, and that when the two halves disunited there was no reason why Ulster couldn't choose to stick with Scotland over England. It was a controversial idea, but one with merit. Northern Ireland not only had a large community of ethnic Scots, but in general the region had historically been closer to Scotland that to the rest of the island; it was where the Scots had originally come from before they overran the Picts in the 9th century. Every point along the ideological spectrum in Belfast was divided, but a majority could find something to like in the arrangement. The Ulster Unionists figured that one protestant monarch was as good as another, and that they had never really liked the English much beyond that; Sinn Fèin, on the other had, preferred reunion with the Catholic south, but a mix of Pan-Celticism, fear of a new Troubles, and the pragmatic notion that they could win something very close to a union with the republic when back in the EU convinced enough of their voters to get onboard with the plan.

Joseph was crowned the King of Scots and Northern Ireland the day that the independence vote succeeded, taking the regnal name James IX and changing the name of his dynasty to the House of Jacob. Less than a month later, the European Union waived normal procedures to admit the new Kingdom of Scotland and Northern Ireland back into the continental union.