AHC: No queens regnant in the British Isles

One of the peculiarities of Britain that separate it from Europe is that it has had female rulers, and culturally speaking they've been more popular than their spear counterparts.

So, how do we get any of the British kingdoms, especially England, to have a "no women allowed" policy with regards to their thrones?
 
Having the throne pass to an unpopular foreigner through the female line, with a popular home-grown candidate tracing through the male line?
 
One of the peculiarities of Britain that separate it from Europe is that it has had female rulers, and culturally speaking they've been more popular than their spear counterparts.

So, how do we get any of the British kingdoms, especially England, to have a "no women allowed" policy with regards to their thrones?

Stephen wins decisively the war against Matilda's supporters?
 
One of the peculiarities of Britain that separate it from Europe is that it has had female rulers, and culturally speaking they've been more popular than their spear counterparts.

Um, Austria, Russia and the Netherlands have all had female monarchs and I'm sure there are plenty of other examples. It isn't that odd.
 
Um, Austria, Russia and the Netherlands have all had female monarchs and I'm sure there are plenty of other examples. It isn't that odd.

It's mainly more modern exemples, and it wasn't so widsrpead in the Middle-Ages.

But, it was not at all uncommon.
Mathilda of Tuscany, Alienor of Aquitaine,Dhuoda of Severac...

And even in France, while the women couldn't be the effective rulers, queens were crowned and sacred as the kings.
And they were almost automatically regents when the king wasn't there.

The role of the woman, politically and in public was far more important than thought, and more than during the Renaissance.
 
It's mainly more modern exemples, and it wasn't so widsrpead in the Middle-Ages.

But, it was not at all uncommon.
Mathilda of Tuscany, Alienor of Aquitaine,Dhuoda of Severac...

And even in France, while the women couldn't be the effective rulers, queens were crowned and sacred as the kings.
And they were almost automatically regents when the king wasn't there.

The role of the woman, politically and in public was far more important than thought, and more than during the Renaissance.

Add in the de facto rule of the Mistresses during the later years of the French monarchy as well, not to mention there were a couple of Byzantine Empresses, Queen Isabella of Castille...
 
Going back to England: Who takes over after Edward VI? The House of Tudor wasn't very prolific.

Well, assuming inheritence through the female line, but not through marriage to a female in the line is allowed, we have a tricky situation. The males of the Brandon line are either dead or haven't been born yet, James V of Scotland is dead, but James VI isn't born yet, there isn't anyone else on the Tudor line, and the last of the de la Poles was killled back in 1525 at Pavia.

Effectively, I think female succession has to be legalised or the only options are crowning the husbands of one of the Grey sisters King.
 
Well, assuming inheritence through the female line, but not through marriage to a female in the line is allowed, we have a tricky situation. The males of the Brandon line are either dead or haven't been born yet, James V of Scotland is dead, but James VI isn't born yet, there isn't anyone else on the Tudor line, and the last of the de la Poles was killled back in 1525 at Pavia.

Effectively, I think female succession has to be legalised or the only options are crowning the husbands of one of the Grey sisters King.

:eek:

That sounds like a recipe for a very messy situation - as in, up to and including civil war.
 
Well, assuming inheritence through the female line, but not through marriage to a female in the line is allowed, we have a tricky situation. The males of the Brandon line are either dead or haven't been born yet, James V of Scotland is dead, but James VI isn't born yet, there isn't anyone else on the Tudor line, and the last of the de la Poles was killled back in 1525 at Pavia.

In this situation isn't Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley the senior (though not very old) male claimant?

EDIT: Now I'm not cooking - though Henry Stewart doesn't have the qualification of being English. In which case the senior living male is Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland.
 
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