Sorry!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My Birthday present!
The May Regency secedes from the European Empire!
It makes an awesome steampunk plot premise, but sucks in real life…
https://medium.com/trollolol/news-from-stupidland-5871-d648990d8250
Ok, building a whacking great Navy was successful, but the fact remains that as a shining example, Henry VIII comes up pretty short.