DBAHC: Have Lady Mary Tudor, Electress of Palatinate be the Queen of England

Her brother, Edward VI had her out of succession and her eldest daughter was used by the French to threaten Edward VI of England and the French were able to conquer Calais due to her eldest daughter marrying King Francis, although Elizabeth I her younger sister was able to rise to the throne, is it possible for Mary Tudor of Palatinate to be queen?
 
Her brother, Edward VI had her out of succession and her eldest daughter was used by the French to threaten Edward VI of England and the French were able to conquer Calais due to her eldest daughter marrying King Francis, although Elizabeth I her younger sister was able to rise to the throne, is it possible for Mary Tudor of Palatinate to be queen?

Isn't the Palatinate sorta FAR from England? I mean, maybe if Mary's son had accepted the Dutch crown when it was offered he could have used THAT as a springboard from which to base an invasion. But like his mom (and unlike his dad - who can forget Philipp of the Palatinate putting his candidacy for the imperial throne (backed by England AND France forward in 1553. Unfortunately the Fuggers hadn't gone broke yet, so Ferdinand I was able to bribe a majority of the electors) he was a loyal little Habsburg bitch and much like Christian II of Denmark earlier in the century, the Habsburgs always had something better to do whenever an opportunity arose (like when Elizabeth nearly died in 1561).
 
Isn't the Palatinate sorta FAR from England? I mean, maybe if Mary's son had accepted the Dutch crown when it was offered he could have used THAT as a springboard from which to base an invasion. But like his mom (and unlike his dad - who can forget Philipp of the Palatinate putting his candidacy for the imperial throne (backed by England AND France forward in 1553. Unfortunately the Fuggers hadn't gone broke yet, so Ferdinand I was able to bribe a majority of the electors) he was a loyal little Habsburg bitch and much like Christian II of Denmark earlier in the century, the Habsburgs always had something better to do whenever an opportunity arose (like when Elizabeth nearly died in 1561).
The problem was his mother was catholic and habsburg lover so she advised him against that.
 
Well Mary was totally excluded by the English line of succession when she married and so she had not the benefit of being restored by her father is his last years (and also Henry VIII’s third act of succession explicitly excluded the line of his daughter lady Mary Tudor and the one of his sister Margaret as foreigns, reserving the English Crown only to someone who was born in England).
Edward VI’s actions were only the nails on the coffin of Electress Mary’s ambition.
Sure Edward was totally against giving Mary any chance to inherit England and his actions in that sense were pretty clear when he had ArchBishop Cranmer to declare invalid the annulment of his father’s second wedding, restoring the title of Princess to his sister Elizabeth, Countess of Leicester and saying who if he had no child by his wife Mary, Queen of Scotland, the line of succession was composed exclusively by:
Princess Elizabeth Dudley, Countess of Leicester and her heirs
Lady Jane Herbert (later Marchioness of Dorset and Countess of Pembroke) and her heirs
Katherine Seymour, Countess of Hertford (later Duchess of Somerset) and her heirs
Margaret Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk and her heirs
Queen Mary of Scotland and England and any heirs (born and raised in the British islands) by a successive wedding
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Lennox and her heirs.

[OOC: Here Elizabeth Tudor married Robert Dudley (as Amy Robsat married Guildford and not Robert) who was named Earl of Leicester by his brother-in-law and later was restored as Princess of England, Jane Grey married her sister’s OTL first husband, while Katherine married directly her second (who is the first cousin of the King and was engaged to her sister Jane before his father’s fall). Mary Grey died early like their mother Frances and their aunt Eleanor.
Margaret Clifford here married her mother’s half-brother Charles and so became Duchess of Suffolk (ATL originally was engaged to the elder brother Henry, but he died as OTL of sweating sickness while his younger brother Charles survived and married Margaret)
@Kellan Sullivan: in OTL was no Imperial election in 1553 as Ferdinand was already elected as King of the Romans in 1531. Maybe you can push some earlier the OTL election of 1562 in which his son Maximilian was elected as King of the Romans and use that?]
 
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Well Mary was totally excluded by the English line of succession when she married and so she had not the benefit of being restored by her father is his last years (and also Henry VIII’s third act of succession explicitly excluded the line of his daughter lady Mary Tudor and the one of his sister Margaret as foreigns, reserving the English Crown only to someone who was born in England).
Edward VI’s actions were only the nails on the coffin of Electress Mary’s ambition.
Sure Edward was totally against giving Mary any chance to inherit England and his actions in that sense were pretty clear when he had ArchBishop Cranmer to declare invalid the annulment of his father’s second wedding, restoring the title of Princess to his sister Elizabeth, Countess of Leicester and saying who if he had no child by his wife Mary, Queen of Scotland, the line of succession was composed exclusively by:
Princess Elizabeth Dudley, Countess of Leicester and her heirs
Jane Seymour, Countess of Hertford and her heirs
Lady Katherine Herbert and her heirs
Margaret Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk and her heirs
Queen Mary of Scotland and England and any heirs (born and raised in the British islands) by a successive wedding
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Lennox and her heirs.

[OOC: Two minutes and I will add some notes for making clear the ATL weddings of the girls, but I think their identities are pretty clear
@Kellan Sullivan: in OTL was no Imperial election in 1553 as Ferdinand was already elected as King of the Romans in 1531. Maybe you can push some earlier the OTL election of 1562 in which his son Maximilian was elected as King of the Romans and use that?]
The problem is in Mary Tudor, she remained Catholic and made the Palatinate-Neuburgs ineligible to succeed.
her husband is protestant.

It did not help that Catherine of Palatinate married Francis II of France, her husband seized Calais due to her claim and had two sturdy sons, Henry(1561) and Louis(1566).
 
The problem is in Mary Tudor, she remained Catholic and made the Palatinate-Neuburgs ineligible to succeed.
her husband is protestant.
The problem for Henry VIII was mostly of foreigners against Englishmen, for Edward VI was also religion (but he used his father’s will for reducing the chances who his Catholic wife or her Catholic aunt will inherit his crown)
 
The problem for Henry VIII was mostly of foreigners against Englishmen, for Edward VI was also religion (but he used his father’s will for reducing the chances who his Catholic wife or her Catholic aunt will inherit his crown)
Plus the fact that Mary Tudor and her husband remind him of Anne of Cleves.

John I of Palatinate-Neuburg(b. 1544), the son of Lady Mary Tudor was also viewed as a puppet of the Habsburgs, however he is known for starting the tradition of the Marian Claimants(the ITTL equivalent of Jacobites), while his elder sister, Catherine became the Queen of France.
 
Plus the fact that Mary Tudor and her husband remind him of Anne of Cleves.

John I of Palatinate-Neuburg(b. 1544), the son of Lady Mary Tudor was also viewed as a puppet of the Habsburgs, however he is known for starting the tradition of the Marian Claimants(the ITTL equivalent of Jacobites), while his elder sister, Catherine became the Queen of France.
Also. But really after Henry VIII and Edward VI’s accurate work John’s claim had very little standing and support... Edward’s restoration of Elizabeth in particular was genial...

Plus in the end John was abandoned early enough by the Spanish Habsburgs as Philip II of Spain had very different ideas from his father
[Ok marrying Carlos, his eldest son by his Portuguese first wife to Elisabeth of France (who was a great regent for her own son Philip III) would have been fine for Charles V, while Philip’s own second wedding to the widowed Mary queen of Scotland was an idea of Charles himself, but surely he would have deeply disapproved of the wedding of Philip and Mary’s daughter Isabella Maria, Queen of Scotland and Duchess of Brabant to Henry IX of England (he would be Elizabeth I and Robert’s eldest son)]

[OOC I have added the notes about the ATL weddings and switched Jane and Katherine’s weddings as thinking well do not butterfly Somerset’s fall and inverting them made more sense for me.
If someone need more explanations about the scenario feel free to ask]
 
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Also. But really after Henry VIII and Edward VI’s accurate work John’s claim had very little standing and support... Edward’s restoration of Elizabeth in particular was genial...

Plus in the end John was abandoned early enough by the Spanish Habsburgs as Philip II of Spain had very different ideas from his father
[Ok marrying Carlos, his eldest son by his Portuguese first wife to Elisabeth of France (who was a great regent for her own son Philip III) would have been fine for Charles V, while Philip’s own second wedding to the widowed Mary queen of Scotland was an idea of Charles himself, but surely he would have deeply disapproved of the wedding of Philip and Mary’s daughter Isabella Maria, Queen of Scotland and Duchess of Brabant to Henry IX of England (he would be Elizabeth I and Robert’s eldest son)]

[OOC I have added the notes about the ATL weddings and switched Jane and Katherine’s weddings as thinking well do not butterfly Somerset’s fall and inverting them made more sense for me.
If someone need more explanations about the scenario feel free to ask]

The Marian Claimants have merged into the Habsburgs as Rudolf, King of Bohemia and Austria married Maria of Palatinate-Neuburg, the only daughter of titular John II, no one raised their claims to England.
 
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