Why British carriers operated with fast capital ships

A counterfactual considers whether a surviving Ark Royal might have emerged from American repair in time to support the United States before Midway. British interwar exercises and wartime losses had reinforced a doctrine that a fleet carrier should operate with a fast capital ship. Renown with Force H and King George V with Victorious illustrate the pattern, while Warspite was the fastest suitable British battleship already in the region. The scenario asks how a combined British carrier-battleship group might have altered Coral Sea or Midway, while keeping the claim explicitly counterfactual.