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Alternate Issue; To Catherine of Aragon, married 1509, annulled 1533 Mary, b. 1510 Elizabeth, b. 1511 Margaret, b. 1513 Catherine, b. 1514 Joan, b. 1516 Eleanor, b. 1518 To Elizabeth Blount, mistress Henriette, b. 1519 Acknowledged 1525, legitimised 1533 To Anne Boleyn, married 1533...

Dragon King The Many Wives, Mistresses and Children of King Henry VIII (1491-1577) The series’ title Dragon King derived from one of Henry VIII's badges, the Red Dragon of Cadwaladr. In 2015, History Channel 2 launched Dragon King, an ambitious TV series about the life of England's...

According to most Tudor Historians, Henry VIII attempted to lay the groundwork for an early Union of the Crowns (which happened many years later, under James VI and I), in 1543, by betrothing his son Edward to Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Now, as we all know, the betrothal fell through just...

Would it lead to a Catholic USA?

King Henry VII died in 1509 and was succeeded by his eldest son, now King Arthur I of England. Prince Arthur married a Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, November 1501. A few months later, in the spring of 1502, he nearly succumbed to sweating sickness in the midst of an epidemic, at Ludlow...

April 1555 Mary I of England's pregnancy was derided as a pipe dream of a middle-aged woman who longed for the glory days of her youth. She was nearing the age of forty and was considered by everyone to be too old to conceive. Yet she never lost hope that God had blessed her after decades of...

Eleanor Habsburg was an archduchess of Austria, infanta of Castile and Aragon, princess of Burgundy, and one of the greatest marriage prospects in Christendom but her fiancé, Henry VIII of England, had married her aunt instead. Katherine of Aragon, while a worse match, was old enough for...

H8 dying earlier (usually in jousting accident) was done many times. Especially with him dying in 1536. But depending of part of that year we can have very different outcomes. Why December (late December-I want Henry to have some nasty accident between Christmas and New Year)? Because of...

The tenth day of November in the Year of the Lord 1518 turned out to be a tearful day for Henry, King of England. His dear wife Catherine first gave birth to another stillborn child, a tiny girl as it was and then died herself a few hours later, leaving her husband with only one living...

April 1555 Mary I of England's pregnancy was derided as a pipe dream of a middle-aged woman who longed for the glory days of her youth. She was nearing the age of forty and was considered by everyone to be too old to conceive. Yet she never lost hope that God had blessed her after decades of...

November 1537: Jane Seymour recovers from the ordeal of her childbirth and returns to court. Now secured in her position as queen, she is more confident than ever and lets nobody except her husband the king tell her what to do. She spends as much time as she can get away with, by the side of her...

We all know that Manuel I of Portugal was married first from 1497 till her death 1498 to Isabella of Aragorn with whom he had the longed for heir Miguel da Paz, born 1498, died 1500 . Manuel then married in the Year 1500 Maria of Aragon , Isabella’s younger sister and she had a bunch of kids...

In the spring of 1528, King Henry's only legitimate child Mary had a bout of smallpox which she did not survive. Anne goes into quarantine at Hever in June 1528 when one of her ladies is taken ill with sweating sickness. Anne becomes ill and does not survive. Henry knows that he has to look...

Premise is the gender-flipped version of @HortenseMancini's "Six Roses, Red and White". Instead of six healthy daughters, Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon have six healthy SONS. (Yes, this butterflies away Mary I...shocker!) With such an overwhelming load of legitimate male heirs around...

Elizabeth of York, queen of England, is undergoing labor for the third time. She is young and healthy but this particular childbirth is different from her previous two. It is long, painful and she is losing lots of blood. Unfortunately the queen would die at the age of 25 giving birth to a...

A World where Isabella of Castile had lived longer than all her children and had no grandchildren. A what if? Idea. We all know about the children of Isabella I of Castile and Leon and her Husband Ferdinand II of Aragorn and how their lives turned out....... But what happened if all the...

So instead of OTL's Arthur, Margaret, Henry and Mary, we now have...let's say Agnes (fem!Arthur), Nicholas (male!Margaret), Alice (fem!Henry) and William (male!Mary). No, these are not likely names, but these names existed in the Tudor era, and I didn't want to use names similar to ones that...

Straight-forward. Henry gets his legitimate male heir at long last, Edward VI, unfortunately he dies right after this son is born. His third wife, Jane Seymour, becomes queen dowager and queen mother. What would change?

OTL, Henry VIII died in 1547, while his first son Henry Duke of Cornwall died in 1511. What if this was reversed? Katherine of Aragon becomes queen dowager, queen mother and presumably queen regent for her son's minority. What else changes?

What if Mary Stewart, Queen of Scotland was captured by the English ahead of her departure for France and so raised in England and married to Edward VI? And if Edward VI still died young, but left children (including a son) who would prevent the succession of the OTL Mary I? Mary Stewart, here...