AHC: have France and England swap religions.

How might England stay catholic while the Hugenots take power in France? Bonus points if England still aquires Scotland (Perhaps Scotland and Ireland switch places in British Isles politics.) How would this affect the Dutch Revolt? Colonization? The US Revolution? The French Revolution? Might one charge against Louis XVI be that he's a closet catholic?
 

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How might England stay catholic while the Hugenots take power in France? Bonus points if England still aquires Scotland (Perhaps Scotland and Ireland switch places in British Isles politics.) How would this affect the Dutch Revolt? Colonization? The US Revolution? The French Revolution? Might one charge against Louis XVI be that he's a closet catholic?

Given the politics of the period, you had a pretty close run of having both a protestant France and a catholic England - a pope who is less frienly to the french and more to the English (read: suicidal) could probably deny the concordat and annul henry VIII's wedding: Henry VIII was very much not a protestant at heart, while Francis I and the house of Valois in general went from sort of tolerance to open annoyance at the pope. An independent gallican church would be a really massive blow to papal prestige, but it would require a point where the king is strong, so either Francis I or Henry IV.


Also, you'd have too many butterflies for any of these things to happen as OTL.
 
Well, I suppose the easiest thing would be to have Catherine of Aragon give birth to a healthy male heir, thus preventing the Split with Rome. Then have *Henri IV of France (born after the PoD, but we can assume a roughly similar dynastic history for the Capetians) not change from Calvinist to Catholic for some reason (stronger Heugenauts?)
 
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