Anne Neville

She was the very frail queen consort of Richard III. WI: She had been healthy and been still alive after Bosworth. Would Henry Tudor have considered marrying her instead of Elizabeth of York? Anne and Henry were about the same age.
 
She was the very frail queen consort of Richard III. WI: She had been healthy and been still alive after Bosworth. Would Henry Tudor have considered marrying her instead of Elizabeth of York? Anne and Henry were about the same age.

I can't see why he would - at their age child-bearing is far less likely, so he needs a younger wife to be sure of an heir

Also why marry a dowager queen ? He can just pack her off to a monastery

Elizabeth was also, in addition, royal by birth and innocent, an ideal mix for a unification bride

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Grey Wolf
 
It's debatabable if Bosworth took place in the case of Anne's survival. King Richard OTL was despairing after the death of his wife and son, and rashly committed to battle before he was ready. ITTL he very well could decide to wait for the substantial reinforcements from the North, where his powerbase was. That would also serve to force the Stanleys to choose their side. They can't linger too long with their army before the King questions their loyalty and moves on them, or at least takes steps to defend agaist their treachery. So, a more confident King Richard does away with the usurper Tudor, and we'd see a restored Plantagenet monarchy instead of, in the end, an obese, syphillitic franco-welsh hanswurst without a decent claim to the throne robbing the church to pay for his extravagancies.
 
Anne Neville.

I was thinking in terms of the vast Neville inheritance. She was the daugher of the earl of Warwick, the "king-maker", who had been the richest baron in England.
 
does away with the usurper Tudor, and we'd see a restored Plantagenet monarchy instead of, in the end, an obese, syphillitic franco-welsh hanswurst without a decent claim to the throne robbing the church to pay for his extravagancies.

You don't like the tudors then :D
 
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