Can you last longer than 9 days?

[monkey]

You wake up as Queen Jane!website about her (http://www.ladyjanegrey.org/) . Alien superbeings have teleported your brain back in space and time to her head while painstakingly remaping all the blood vessel and nerve conections and replacing your brains imunity genes and proteins to avoid an auto-amune reaction (these guys are clever!).

It is the morning before your coronation. So how do you avoid having Mary become Queen and chop your head off? If you suceed what do you do with your kingdom? Will you be able to understand what people are saying? :confused:

Now you people can have your fantasies about being a woman and discuss alternate history at the same time. :p

[Kadyet]

I free Mary from the Tower, bring her to the palace, and remove the crown from my head and put it on hers. If/when Sir Thomas Wyatt rebels against Mary, I immediately denounce him.

[monkey]

I assumed most people would want too avoid Mary becoming queen considering the reputation of "Bloody Mary" but if you enjoy seeing people burnt at the stake thats OK.

A problem with your plan is that Mary was never actually imprisoned in the tower. To avoid being crowned you will probably have to somehow run away and escape London, and reach Mary somehow to warn of the plot against her hopefully making friends and getting in her good books. But the problem is that you already have a reputation as a protestant and as long as you live you are a threat to the crown so when "Bloody Mary" becomes unpopular a rebelion in your name will probably be launched anyway leading to your head being choped of :eek: no mater how much you denounce the rebellion as in OTL.

Which means that if you want to live you might have to somehow escape somewhere and assume a new identity as a peasant or somthing, which would be dificult! Or beg the ASB's to send you back earlier so that you can make better friends with Mary, convince her that you are secretly Catholic, and thwart your parents atempts to get the crown on your head, or give king Edward some antibiotics.

[JoanneMerriam]

Flee the country, leaving a letter to the Council stating that I have no desire for the throne and intend to live my life in obscurity (hopefully this is enough to prevent assassins being sent after me). Live in France or something, probably she had relatives there.

[monkey]

Its allright me pointing out the flaws in other peoples plans but what would I do you ask?

The first problem would be learning to speak 16th century English, but your parents atempts to crown you will go much smoother than OTL if you just be quiet and do what your told anyway! (note unlike the britney and paris scenarios people would be wandering why you are sudenly much more stupid rather than smart as she could aparently speak 5 languages) I would have my/her father and some soldiers acompany the letter to Mary and escort her back to London. She will probably refuse to recognise me as queen and be charged with treason. Perhaps if/when her execution is necessary I will invent the guilotine as it would reduce the chance of the execution being botched which would be unpopular, and the novelty value would please the crowd! I would also let my/her husband Guilford become king as that would give me more backing from his side of the family, although maybe with a smaller crown if posible. Hopefully I can make friends with Elizabeth and prevent her from pursuing a claim to the thrown!

When my regime is secure I think I would try to set up some kind of academy of science where great minds can gather and do research experiments and philosophy. With a few hints in what directions to experiment from me! Hopfully I can provide refuge to Galileo somehow.

Hopefully not die while producing the aers to the thrown! :eek: Hmm maybe I should get a doctor to ivent surgical hygienne and forceps just in case, and get the universal panacea of bleeding replaced with a harmless form of quackery at least! But if I advance medicine to much there will soon be an large and expanding overpopulation problem. So perhaps to aleviate that I should set up more colonys in North America and give subsidised or even free passage to setle there. Then I might have enough colonys to to deport all the criminals to instead of excuting them, which will make me seem merciful. Where they can labour to produce food for auphanages and the army & navy. Such progresive policys should make me popular and well remembered among the comon people, except the amerindians of coarse but not much can be done to prevent there ultimate doom. When North America is filled up I can move on to other temperate areas of the globe such as Agentina, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Syberia. And then with the advanced weapons I have given the army & navy I shall rule the WORLD!! BWAHAHAHAA!! :D

It would be easier if they sent you back to when she was four instead as strange behaviour would be less unusual in a child and would give you more time to learn th lingo and plot. And of course your life would be much easier if ASB's stoped sending peoples brains into other people's body's at all!