AHC:United Kingdom Of Great Brittian Portugal And Ireland

So your assignment if you choose to accept it is to have a Anglo-Portuguese Union with any pod After 1373
 
I can get a brief England-Portugal union:
- Henry VII dies before Bosworth so that Elizabeth of York is married off to Manuel.
- Richard III fails to have further children so is succeeded by one of the De La Poles.
- De La Pole proves unsatisfactory to the nobles and has no other heirs so they invite over the Manuel's ATL son & Crown Prince of Portugal *Eduardo

However the 2 countries are too far apart at this time to sustain absentee monarchs for too long and the minute there is a female succession or a spare male heir then the 2 would separate.
 
Here's an idea: have Charles II and Catherine of Braganza have children, then kill off her brother Pedro II and his daughter Isabel Luísa. This makes Catherine Queen of Portugal and her son its heir.
 
John VI and the royal family does not return to Portugal in 1821 from Brazil and the British assume administrative responsibility of Portugal as a part of a long term containment of Napoleon. Granted, the long term position is that this would be a disaster.
 
What about Mary I's betrothal to the duque de Beja? There were plans as late as post-Jane Seymour's death when Henry VIII was considering a double match - himself to Kristina of Denmark and Mary to the Infante Luiz.
 
- Margaret Tudor has no children by James IV of Scotland and dies in 1512 with a stillborn boy.

- Mary Tudor the Elder goes through her OTL marriage to Louis XII in 1515. Charles Brandon then dies on his way to collect her.

- Mary Tudor the Elder then is married to John III of Portugal in 1518, after his father marries the woman he was meant to marry, Eleanor of Austria.

- Mary Tudor the Elder gives birth to 3 living children: Juan, Prince of Portugal (b.1519), Manuel of Portugal (b.1521) and Maria Manuela (b.1524).

- Mary Tudor the Younger is married to Manuel of Portugal to ensure the countries won't enter a union. Henry chooses to accept his current heir is female. They have 4 living children: Henry of Portugal (b.1536), Catherine of Portugal (b.1538), Maria of Portugal (b.1541) and Joan of Portugal (b.1544).

- Henry VIII of England fails to have another heir, marrying someone else in 1536 (perhaps an unattached Catherine of Austria, who'd be 29 and may not have found another match by the time).

- Henry VIII of England dies in 1547, leaving his only surviving child Mary as Mary I of England, flanked by her husband Manuel, Duke of Viseu.

- Juan, Prince of Portugal dies, unfortunately unmarried in 1548. His brother takes his place as heir.

- Manuel, King-Consort of England dies in 1551. His sister, Maria Manuela, has since given her husband, Philip, Prince of Asturias, only 3 stillborn girls since their union in 1543 and dies herself in 1552. This leaves Henry, Prince of Wales as King Henry I of Portugal come John III of Portugal's death in 1557.

- To gain the support of his Spanish neighbours, who attempted to claim his throne for themselves after John III's death, Henry I of Portugal marries Joanna of Austria, his senior by a year. They will have 5 living children: Anne of Portugal (b.1557), Mary of Portugal (b.1559), Henry, Prince of Portugal and Wales (b.1561), John, Duke of Beja and York (b.1562) and Catherine of Portugal (b.1565)

- Mary I of England dies, leaving her country to her only son, the King of Portugal. Henceforth, Henry I of Portugal is known as Henry, I of Portugal and IX of England.
 
- Mary I of England dies, leaving her country to her only son, the King of Portugal. Henceforth, Henry I of Portugal is known as Henry, I of Portugal and IX of England.

But would England and Portugal actually be a united kingdom, or just ruled by the same monarch?
 
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