As I said, I was torn between the 70s and New Labour era, but it had to be when Labour were in power but not now.
Yes, I don't think you can really have the same sort of honourable opponents thing going on in the modern day UK politics world (I have vague plans for a modern AU - or, well, pre-2020 modern AU - in which they're both lawyers, but Sir Robert is not a politician in that, because being a member of the post-Brexit Conservative Party would undoubtedly be one of Catherine's hard lines :P.)
(It is very lucky there is not an audience for a SW Winslow BOy fusion, lol.)
I would read it! I mean, I don't know Star Wars (I grew up without a TV as a kid for various convoluted reasons and also never went to the cinema, so I just lived off Victorian novels, and now have no real pop culture knowledge as a result), but I love all of the worldbuildy, principled conflict kind of stuff, and I have an eternal weakness for romances that end tragically :D
I spent ages trying to do my head in over an English Civil War thing but see above re. I am Not Doing The Research For The Damned AU Meme
Oh, that is dedication - would Sir Robert have been a dashing royalist and Catherine on the radical, non-Cromwellian side of the parliamentarians (*tries vaguely to recall GCSE history*)? But many sympathies on not wanting to do tons of research for fun and light-hearted AU memes.
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Yes, I don't think you can really have the same sort of honourable opponents thing going on in the modern day UK politics world (I have vague plans for a modern AU - or, well, pre-2020 modern AU - in which they're both lawyers, but Sir Robert is not a politician in that, because being a member of the post-Brexit Conservative Party would undoubtedly be one of Catherine's hard lines :P.)
(It is very lucky there is not an audience for a SW Winslow BOy fusion, lol.)
I would read it! I mean, I don't know Star Wars (I grew up without a TV as a kid for various convoluted reasons and also never went to the cinema, so I just lived off Victorian novels, and now have no real pop culture knowledge as a result), but I love all of the worldbuildy, principled conflict kind of stuff, and I have an eternal weakness for romances that end tragically :D
I spent ages trying to do my head in over an English Civil War thing but see above re. I am Not Doing The Research For The Damned AU Meme
Oh, that is dedication - would Sir Robert have been a dashing royalist and Catherine on the radical, non-Cromwellian side of the parliamentarians (*tries vaguely to recall GCSE history*)? But many sympathies on not wanting to do tons of research for fun and light-hearted AU memes.