Summary: Because England has many regrets.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything; I'm really just playing in someone else's sandbox for a little while. Third in the Hidden Truths series.
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England has lived a long, long time. His life hasn't always been good, to many battles, too many wars, but even so, there have been good memories mixed in with all the bad. He knows it could have been so much worse, but he still has his regrets. Still looks back and wonders; what did I do wrong? Why didn't I do something different? Why, why, why.
England regrets not being strong enough to help his people more when the Roman Empire invaded. That he wasn't strong enough to repel the invaders. He knows that really, it's not his fault. He was still so very young, and his people had been divided and unused to fighting as a cohesive unit, like the romans were. Yet, he still regrets that he wasn't able to do more for his people. England also regrets not helping the Romanovs. He knows why his King decided not to, but yet he still feels that they should have helped somehow because the Romanovs were family. He regrets that he cannot be the big brother that Sealand deserves. That he cannot raise him, be close to him, show him how much he truly does love him. But after America left him, after America broke him, he cannot bring himself to become close to Sealand, for fear that if he lets Sealand in his heart will be broken again. England thinks that he would not be able to take that again. So he does what he thinks is best for Sealand, he sells him Sweden, because he knows that Sweden will take good care of him. England has his regrets, but he will push on, because he knows that that is just a part of life and that he can't do anything about it, no matter how much he wishes things were different.