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The Crown never wronged the colonies, they just wanted the colonies to help pay off a war they were the main beneficiaries of. The colonies would have lost if they were no propped up by France as they suffered from poor administration. The UK government actually makes a profit off the royal family.
That's not necessarily true. The Crown had been unsympathetic and abusive to the colonies. I'd review the "Intolerable Acts" and abuses of the Crown (especially in the Province of Massachusetts). The colonies wouldn't have won without the French, and the French supported the colonies because Britain was a common enemy. When the signatories of the Declaration of Independence did so they understood their position as a relatively small population with less wealth and military might than the British Empire. Their loss would have meant certain death for treason in England. I highly doubt these heroes would have been so brave as to declare independence amid certain death for themselves and their estates at the hands of a tyrant if the Crown was being jolly and governing with fairness over the colonies.