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As you may guess from the title-Elizabeth Tudor is born as boy-and that obviously makes Anne Boleyn 10 feet tall and bulletproof, but not forever. Said boy fell ill and dies aged 10 and Henry VIII is once again without male heir. What would he do? He can't hope to have another child with Anne...

Summer of 1512 Edmund knelt down on his knees in prayer, alongside his sister Mary and his mother Queen Elizabeth. All three of them were praying for the rapid recovery of their king Henry VII, the man who won at Bosworth Field and who inaugurated the Tudor dynasty. But even though they tried...

I’ve read that Isabella proposed that Henry VII remarry Joanna of Naples. What if he did marry her? Let’s say that Joanna managed to give birth to a healthy boy in 1506. Let’s call him Edmund to make things easier. How would this affect things? On one hand, the younger Tudor prince would take...

Change is simple: second child of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York is born male (boy named Henry). For sake of simplicity let's say that rest of their children are like IOTL. So that Henry, born in 1489, would be old enough to marry before death of Queen Isabella of Castile (thus before Joanna...

What would have happened if Henry VII was willing to return the part of Catherine's dowry that Ferdinand had already paid? Would Ferdinand have suggested that Catherine marry Prince Henry? If not, who would he have wanted Catherine to marry next? Would he have used her as a pawn to regain...

What do you think would have happened if Edward VI had lived past 1553? How would this affect the reformation and the Church of England? Would he have married a foreign bride or another Tudor claimant? What would have happened to Mary and Elizabeth? Would he have married the widowed Mary Stuart?

y'all know what this is about aka the Mary becomes queen in 1536 TL ___________________ Equal and Indivisible - A Tudor Timeline Sketch of the Lady Mary, daughter of King Henry, done by Hans Holbein in 1536 “No one could have disproved that this august Lady was the daughter of Kings.” –...

The old menace is haunting me again, and by the old menace, I mean that one line in Wolf Hall where after the disastrous 1536 joust and everyone thinks Henry’s dead from falling off his horse, Cromwell immediately sent for Fitzwilliam to fetch Mary because, in his own words, he “cannot hold the...

After a short courtship, King Henry announces that his daughter Lady Mary's engagement to Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg. Philip and Mary marry in early March in a small ceremony attended by the royal family and a few favored courtiers. Many express their displeasure at the match, chief...

Records of King Henry VII's first wife, Madeleine de Velville have been lost to history. Her name is first mentioned in a letter from Jasper Tudor to Margaret Beaufort, alerting her that her seventeen-year-old son has married a Breton heiress by the name of Madeleine (whether she was of gentry...

Despite popular belief, King Henry was not disappointed with the birth of Princess Elizabeth, believing if his wife could have a healthy girl, she could have a healthy boy. However, this did not change the simple fact that in order to to secure her position as Queen, Anne Boleyn desperately...

A big scandal shakes the Tudor court when it is discovered that the Lady Elizabeth has secretly married Sir Robert Dudley. Enraged by his sister marrying without his permission, Edward exiled both the Princess and her new husband to Ireland, swearing he will never speak to either again. To his...

1510 Disaster strikes. Just months after his coronation and wedding, King Henry the Eighth falls ill. By January, he is at death's door and his wife gives birth to a stillborn daughter. Everyone prays he will recover but alas by late February he dies: it is said that minutes before he died, he...

To steal from my fanfic summary (which I will be loosely using as a basis for this timeline): Between 1495-1502, four important Crown Princes died in history. But what if they didn't? What if when Arthur Tudor became king of England, those three princes were his counterparts? Six months after...

So, this happened instead of work: “By midsummer, the midwife was certain, Queen Anne was carrying more than one babe. She informed the Royal Couple to expect twins, though private records indicate she believed more may be possible. Due to the increased risk of multiple babes, Queen Anne...

What would it take to have Edward VI married with an heir before his death? Besides drastically extending his life (a year or two is fine, but if he lives to his twenties it's not that hard to give him an heir). My first thought is a marriage to Lady Jane Grey, with one child (maybe another on...

What if Henry VIII Tudor, king of England, had died in the one jousting accident that nearly killed him in march 1524, prior to breaking church relations with Rome and without leaving a surviving heir besides Mary? Would Mary be able to smoothly wriggle her way into the throne? Who would contest...

In 1536, Henry VIII of England suffered a serious jousting accident. This caused him to suffer from serious health problems, and may have caused his mood swings. What if he hadn't had this fateful accident?

What if Anne Boleyn had a son instead of a daughter? How would Henry VIII having a healthy son with Anne alter history?

What if Jane Seymour hadn't died of postnatal complications? How might things be different?