We all know that Anne Boleyn produced a son in 1536, and we also know that Henry VIII had been slowly losing interest with her after the miscarriages in 1534 and 1535. Would Anne still have been the most painted woman in England?
I dunno, TBH. But if she hadn't produced any sons, there might not be so many places named for her in New Wales and Maryland.....
And what about the Boleyn Finishing academy? OTL it was started in 1542 and the first attendants were Anne's many daughters with the princesses of Francis II of France? It was supposedly started due to Princess Elizabeth's behavious with her butler, so maybe Elizabeth runs even mor wild? Or maybe she goes the other way, and becomes a prude?
Also, it would hard to think of The Anglo Empire of the 1600's without King Henry IX and Edward, Duke of York. Where would King Arthur I and his 20 years war with Scotland come from? Where would homosexual marriage be without the scandal of Princess Charlotte in 1589 come from?
Ah, the Boleyn Finishing Academy, one of the finest schools in the British Isles; I do believe one of my ancestors, later the father of the first colonial governor of the Virginia Colony, was a top student there circa 1600 or so.
Same-sex marriage wasn't legal anywhere until the 1960s in our world, though; although it can be admitted that the case of Princess Charlotte was indeed prominently discussed just before England legalized it in 1972, this easily could have been postponed with a modern POD. Though I think may can agree that the English, and later British, Empire could have been much different without Henry & Arthur at the wheel.![]()