I was looking for something else and came across this thread from a couple years ago. It got me wondering of the effects of the future Charles II being born a girl.
It actually feeds into something I've been thinking about but I was wondering what those more knowledgeable in the period though.
For the sake of discussion, let's invoke a butterfly net on the large scale up until about the Restoration in 1660. So the rest of Charles I's children are born on schedule and Charles doesn't become a great statesman.
I have two immediate questions and a follow-on.
1) Would Charles I do much, if anything different if his heir was three years younger. Let's just call him *James, even though he probably would have been called Charles.
2) Who would try to marry his eldest daughter to? Let's call her *Charlotte. Would the fact that she's a year or so older than Mary, make a difference? I'm assuming Balthasar of Spain still dies on schedule and that the Charles-the-Elector-Palatinate-to-be still screws up his relations with his English family. Who else is on the horizon in the mid-1440s? Would Charles approach Sweden about a marriage?
3) If *Charlotte marries the Stadtholder William II in place of her sister Mary, who could Mary marry? Or would she still be unmarried when the family goes into exile and really only become marriageable in 1660 at the age of 29.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts,
David
It actually feeds into something I've been thinking about but I was wondering what those more knowledgeable in the period though.
For the sake of discussion, let's invoke a butterfly net on the large scale up until about the Restoration in 1660. So the rest of Charles I's children are born on schedule and Charles doesn't become a great statesman.
I have two immediate questions and a follow-on.
1) Would Charles I do much, if anything different if his heir was three years younger. Let's just call him *James, even though he probably would have been called Charles.
2) Who would try to marry his eldest daughter to? Let's call her *Charlotte. Would the fact that she's a year or so older than Mary, make a difference? I'm assuming Balthasar of Spain still dies on schedule and that the Charles-the-Elector-Palatinate-to-be still screws up his relations with his English family. Who else is on the horizon in the mid-1440s? Would Charles approach Sweden about a marriage?
3) If *Charlotte marries the Stadtholder William II in place of her sister Mary, who could Mary marry? Or would she still be unmarried when the family goes into exile and really only become marriageable in 1660 at the age of 29.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts,
David