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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Yes it will become an almost mini Protestant England as the Catholics move out. There will be lots of title redistribution and bequeathing to come. Will cover those soon. But yes England will be unable to play a role externally (in any force at least) for a while...

The War of the English Succession (1559-1564) Part II The War in the North would now continue. Leaving Carlisle and the small force still besieging it, Robert moved south chasing the retreating Yorkshire host. Another Scottish force (financed largely by France) was assembling just over the...

Oh I agree. He would keep up his fight. Lutheranism would remain a force, but I imagine it would slowly lose ground to a more unified Reformist faith. Even in OTL Luther's influence slowly waned

I agree. The issue of the Eucharist in particular was a major sticking point between Luther and Zwingli. So you need to either have on change their mind (unlikely) or have one removed from the debate in the first place. Unsubtle plug for my own timeline where Luther is unable to attend due to...

It's coming don't worry I've been working on this a lot the last week. And all I am saying again is this is a long story, we cant infer any permanence after one chapter.

Whatever the outcome of this conflict (not confirming either way yet) the political and religious future of England, and the other British nations for that matter, is far from finalised. This is just the first chapter in a much longer story.

So this turned out way longer than anticipated... Writers block overcome however. Strap in. The War of the English Succession (1559-1564) Part I On August 22nd 1559 Arthur, King of England and Ireland, died suddenly. Within the next few months England would again be the stage for a Dynastic...

Brilliant

Enjoying the TL keep it up! Could do with more maps etc. just to make it easier to understand where things are. Keep having to google names of places etc.

True but we could see a situation similar to Habsburg-Lorraine in OTL. Most people would consider the Habsburgs to have been ruling Austria(-Hungary) up until WWI though in truth it was the House of Lorraine that was the male line after the marriage of Francis and Maria. So it is entirely...

There's still times for Wales to play a role yet. And nothing is yet a foregone conclusion.

It will certainly be interesting. Just takes the right person in the right place (or wrong person wrong place depending on your view) - couple of rogue pieces of literature and a few whispers and boom Protestant. But it will certainly make an impact.

Pretty much. Henry will ask for diplomatic recognition and support from Denmark - and obviously Christian would prefer a Catholic monarch in England. But yes time to "rebalance" the concessions.

And you would be absolutely right - I had meant to kill him off hold on let me edit

Now my little summer break is over its back to the action. Decided to skip the Ottoman update for now and focus on the events in England - we are now entering the time period of true excitement and deviation. Arthurian England (1554-1559) Arthur, son of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon...

They didn't have the resources. They were overstretched in the Low Countries, Italy, Germany and the Mediterranean as it is. It's very had to conquer and hold onto a country. Look at the hard time they had (unsuccessfully) holding onto Portugal - which is a lot smaller and less populous than...

Yes it is. Though she is actually older than Catherine Howard was in OTL. Not born

As much as he may play up the Arthurian legend he will be known as Arthur I as others have said. Though there will be an Arthur II. This is my new favourite expression

I've alluded to it before but because of the increasing Reformist influence in France and being that much removed from England proper it's allowed them to grow. The area sort of serves as a go between for English, French, German and Dutch Reformists moving and operating. Plus wealthy, urban...

Henry’s Kingdom: England 1530-1554 In hindsight the fall of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey appears as an inevitability. This may not have been clear at the time, and it may have been less certain than now accepted however it is fair to say that it was unsurprising. Wolsey had effectively governed...