tudor era

What if (King) Arthur, Henry Duke of York and Edmund Duke of Somerset all survive to adulthood? I am most interested in Edmund, as he is the biggest question mark of the bunch... For the sake of the scenario, I will say that Arthur still marries Catherine of Aragon and both survive their...

In 1501, Arthur, the next in line for the English throne, married Catherine of Aragon to secure an alliance between England and Spain. Then, in 1502, Arthur died. The rest is history. Arthur's brother, Henry VIII, becomes the heir to the throne and marries his brother's widow, divorcing her for...

What if, rather than suffering injuries to his thigh after being hit with a misplaced lance and being thrown from his horse, he sustains injuries slightly to the side, leaving him infertile? I just had this thought, and it is fascinating to me. A male heir becomes an impossibility for one...

Anne stood on the scaffold, looking out at the crowd of onlookers who had gathered to witness her execution. She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down, and began to speak. "Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to...

Say they also all survive to adulthood (not necessarily old age, just enough to marry and develop their own character). How would this impact the evolution of the Tudor dynasty? Who would these alternate sons marry, and what titles might they have bestowed upon them? Alternate Issue: Arthur...

Say both Catherine and Arthur survive their sickness unscathed, and go on to have many kids. Who would these alternate heirs marry, and how would it compare to our world and Henry's kids? Alternate Issue; 1502, Elizabeth 1503, Mary 1504, Arthur 1506, Margaret 1507, Henry 1509, Edward 1510...

The inverse of my previous thread asking what if all of Henry's kids were girls :) Who would they marry? Would Henry still divorce Catherine, and if not would he remarry after her death in 1536? Would we not have an English reformation at all? Would Henry live longer, perhaps not having a...

Would it lead to a Catholic USA?

Her conduct, first as a royal lady-in-waiting and later as a queen, indicates that she was more of a steel magnolia - a fragrant, seemingly fragile, ultra-feminine exterior concealing a tensile core. Jane Seymour, queen for only seventeen months, had not expected the changes in her life: she...

Cast Charlotte Hope as Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England Eric Bana as Henry VIII, King of England Isolda Dychauk as Katherine Tudor, Queen of Spain and Holy Roman Empress Maria Valverde as Elizabeth Tudor, Queen of Portugal Ruairi O'Connor as Henry Tudor, Prince of Wales Sam Claflin as...

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?

Does Henry, Duke of York also fall for Anne? Up to you to decide. Either way, what does this change? We will say that this son of Arthur and Katherine is born in New Year's, 1503, and is named Ferdinand after Katherine's father. Ferdinand I of England is a child king when he succeeds to the...

The two were betrothed as children before this arrangement was broken off. What if it hadn't been broken off? What if the two married in 1533, right before Mary was declared illegitimate? And because Francis' father and brother had seven and ten children, respectively, and Mary's mother was...

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...

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...

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...