Catherine of Aragon's Health

She's not going to give up her destiny because Henry wants a son. Especially with a daughter living. Charles will not propose a different relative because he, too, sees no problem with a Queen Regnant.

She would give up her place as Queen however if that daughter were betrothed to the Dauphin of France, which she likely is at this time. Catherine hated France and while she'd have wanted her daughter married to her sister's son there's no chance of that happening here and the Dauphin is the only viable choice of a proper match for Mary.

Charles would also not have wanted the English crown to be directly inherited by the French. If there were a chance that he could get one of his sisters as Queen of England and their future son as King then he would have (gently) pushed his aunt to give up her claim.
 
We are going to have to agree to disagree. I believe her personalty, personal history, religious beliefs, and sense of destiny - all completely different concepts than now - will prevent her from "being reasonable" - to use a modern term. You obviously want her reasonable. I can't see that without perverting the above mentioned four.
 
Kate won't be reasonable. She'll put up a fight - she was pigheaded and stubborn (and indirectly, OTL, the cause of much of her own and her daughter's sufferings). As to Charles V not agreeing/proposing another relative, I call bullshit. If the only heir to the English throne is a girl he doesn't have a problem, sure. As long as said girl is single or married to a nice little Habsburg, or half-Habsburg princeling. If said girl is already married to the French dauphin or even the king of France, he's going to start going through some serious rectal dilations. Charles stopped supporting Mary when it was in his interest to form an alliance with the king of England, sooner or later, that day's gonna come around, and he's gonna wonder who he should actually support: his aunt, the queen whose only child and daughter is married to the French devil vs. his aunt's husband, the king of England, who calls the shots.
 
Uh, Charles forced Francis to marry Eleanor (Charles' sister) in 1530. Charles in 1530 can afford to stay out of it so long as Henry does nothing but petty things (sending her to live where she doesn't want) to his aunt. That's a husband's right and privilege in that era. So, I think he's just going to do what he did OTL: nothing. He's not going to propose another Spanish lass to replace the one already there. You're going to have to change the character of both men (H8 & C5) in order to get anything different out of them. Henry is not going to want to go from one Spanish Princess to another; in his mind K's Spanish character is part of the problem.
 
So you're saying then that Charles V would probably be alright with Mary's future husband inheriting the entirety of England and Ireland. She's likely not marrying a Habsburg anytime soon since the betrothal with France would have been something that Henry's advisers pushed towards while the Prince was still alive and the succession safely in his hands. Henry is also unlikely to drop the betrothal at this time. Mary's only ten but it's incredibly unlikely that her father will arrange to marry her to a Hapsburg while he's still young enough to remarry. Especially if Charles does as you say and only obstructs his attempts to acquire a new royal bride.

If the Prince Henry, probably, lives to be at least Edward VI's age then that would have made him 15 years old at the time of his death ITL in 1525. Which is five years before Eleanor of Austria married Francis I and about one year before the betrothal giving the OP time to arrange a betrothal between Henry and Eleanor of Austria.

To be fair though it's likely that Catherine of Austria was betrothed to the now deceased Prince of Wales. It wouldn't take much for Charles to arrange that she marry her deceased betrothed's father once his aunt has been convinced to step aside.
 
So you're saying then that Charles V would probably be alright with Mary's future husband inheriting the entirety of England and Ireland. She's likely not marrying a Habsburg anytime soon since the betrothal with France would have been something that Henry's advisers pushed towards while the Prince was still alive and the succession safely in his hands. Henry is also unlikely to drop the betrothal at this time. Mary's only ten but it's incredibly unlikely that her father will arrange to marry her to a Hapsburg while he's still young enough to remarry. Especially if Charles does as you say and only obstructs his attempts to acquire a new royal bride.

If the Prince Henry, probably, lives to be at least Edward VI's age then that would have made him 15 years old at the time of his death ITL in 1525. Which is five years before Eleanor of Austria married Francis I and about one year before the betrothal giving the OP time to arrange a betrothal between Henry and Eleanor of Austria.

To be fair though it's likely that Catherine of Austria was betrothed to the now deceased Prince of Wales. It wouldn't take much for Charles to arrange that she marry her deceased betrothed's father once his aunt has been convinced to step aside.

Could make for interesting times, considering that Katharina's direct line of descent went extinct in two generations - and both Sebastiao of Portugal and D. Carlos were different degrees of wacky.
 
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