Oh boy...Henry Frederick is going to have a hell of a time stomaching a Papist wife (and a Spaniard at that).
All of James I/VI's children survive to adulthood
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Can work. Elisabeth of France here will marry the Duke of Savoy, Christine and Henriette will find good matches somewhere....
Eh, eh... but is not like he will have any choice... politically that match is too important and he is smart enough to understand that
If she is allowed to keep her faith is likely she will not complain too much, unlike her younger sister...
Henry Frederick will marry the girl for sure as long as his dad is around, but poor Anne is likely not going to be indulged in her religion like Henrietta Maria was IOTL.
Maybe then have Henry dying as OTL (he was not a kid anymore) and marry Charles to Anna?
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Henry with a catholic wife will be a lot of fun, especially if Anne comes to englsnd whilst still young
Henry with a Catholic wife whose a looker like the young Anne of Austria (this is something all her contemporaries agree on) is definitely going to be fun. Especially if he's as randy as his great-grandfather (James V), grandfather (Frederik II of Denmark), uncle (Christian IV) and nephews (Charles/James II) but as puritanically uxorious as Charles I. Somehow wonder if religion won't take a backseat to the sexual politics.
What about a Saxon/Brandenburger match for Charles/Robert, if we're going for Protestant. Pretty much a lack of royal Catholic candidates that will be allowed to wed a second son (Bavaria has nobody, and unless you're going with slightly older princesses from Savoy/Mantua, it leaves Italians like Claudia de Medici or a d'Este).
Normally this would be the case but sense any Spanish mach was very unpopular whith parliament he was able ( whilst he was alive) to stop the OTL mach, here sense he has siblings he is in a even better position to force this issue, ironically whith the complete support of parliament he would not have to follow the kings will here and In OTL he was already looking for his own wife separate from the king.
I've long been considering doing a TL with a surviving Henry Frederick. Perhaps I will make Henri IV survive as well (cause for Henry Frederick surviving) and we can see a Henry Frederick/Anne of Austria match.
No. That happened in a world were a Spanish/French match was impossible and his intended OTL match was with a princess of Florence...
Is pretty unlikely who Henry Frederick will find a way for stopping a Spanish or French match, specially with his sister engaged on the other side...
I think you are underestimating how stubborn he could be, if he refuses to marry he will have a lot of allies in parliament and in England. I have a hard time seeing jaime's being able to force this issue no matter how much he may want to.
I think Anne of Austria was the Spanish match that James was hoping for that France snagged instead.
No, she married Louis XIII several years earlier. It was her younger sister Maria Anna that James I wanted his son to marry.
Now, if Henry had lived, possibly James would have tried to marry him with Anne, though I'm not sure if Spain would be interested.
Except the tensions (financial) existed quite apart from the religious angle. Charlie and his pet Archbishop aggravated things, but a more Protestant-inclined King doesn't necessarily make life easier for the Parliamentarians. In fact, if Henry's religion avoids Scottish issues, something equivalent to the 'Eleven Years Tyranny' might have lasted longer, eventually turning the country into Absolute Monarchy.
That could've been interesting to see to be sure. Especially given that Cromwell had more power than Charles ever did.