Eight fast British capital ships rewrite the treaty system

What if Britain completed four Admiral-class battlecruisers and four similar-displacement fast battleships by 1919?

Britain would dominate the fast capital-ship balance and force a much larger treaty standard, reshaping which older ships survived.

The hypothetical battleships begin with four triple 15-inch/42 turrets, but their proposed 23-24 knots is revised upward because such large new ships would be expected to move faster. A target of 28 knots produces an assumed achieved speed of about 27 knots, although the likely figure remains disputed. Four of these battleships alongside four completed Admiral-class battlecruisers would give Britain eight ships that American planners could regard as peers of 16-inch-gunned battleships. A treaty ceiling of 35,000 tons would then be difficult to impose when Britain already operated so many ships of roughly 45,000 tons. A fifteen-ship treaty fleet at that larger allowance could retain the Queen Elizabeth class temporarily, while Renown, Repulse, Tiger, and eventually the R class become easier to discard. The hypothetical changes rival fleet planning and treaty negotiations as well as Britain's own retention choices.