Anne Boleyn has Multiple Daughters

Why not have Anne produce another Daughter, Princess Anne and then a son, edward who is the heir, and is like OTL edward vi, when Henry dies edward is king with Dowage Queen Anne as regent marrying Edward to a Nobel lady. Elizabeth is still heir presumably, and Anne is married to prince Charles of Scotland.

Edward dies and Elizabeth becomes queen.

The idea for this thread is that she has only daughters. But that is a good idea, it just doesn't work for this thread.
 
3. IDK Edward IV had several daughters, so Henry being Henry, and if he's anything like his father, is going to love a match on paper more than a match in actuality (see Mary Rose Tudor's betrothal to Karl V, Henry's own engagement to Catalina d'Aragona). He might see the younger girls as being suitable bargaining chips to the various families of the English aristocracy.

To marry those children to an Englishman is going to cost a smaller dowry than marrying her off to a foreign king. And not only that, it would then prevent the absorption of England by France, the Empire et al.

Since, one of the main reasons, (or so I'm told) that Henry VII married Edward IV's daughters off to his supporters, was so that you didn't have various foreign kings with big armies etc popping in for tea and taking the whole country. A way Henry could do that is to extend his family into those who perhaps have rights to the thrones themselves - Courtenay, Pole - and maybe spare a daughter for the son of Regent Arran?

Agreed. A great way to cool things off with his nobles.

Yeah, I guess. But Henry VIII is going to have 8 legitement daughters and Mary, who the catholic powers are going to recognise. If he just marries them to English Nobles, he will be missing golden opportunities to play the governments against each other. At least 1 or 2 would go off to a foreign nation.

Also agreed. Maybe even the Swedes might pick up one of these many daughters. Certainly Elizabeth did not lack for suitors after Bloody Mary died. She would have the opportunity to please everyone at once while maintaining her own independence.
 
The idea for this thread is that she has only daughters. But that is a good idea, it just doesn't work for this thread.

But this is the only way of this working with only daughters, Anne will still lose her head, Jane Seymour dies having Edward, Edward becomes king dies, Mary becomes queen and would most likely kill her half sisters. She was terrified of Elizabeth on her own but two or more claims to the thrown would cause her to kill them off and produce an heir with Philip of Spain causing a joint nation of England and Spain with a navy and empire no other countries could compete with.

Then a new civil war will happen between the patriot English men and the loyal English Spaniards.
 
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