Edward and Mary of England & Scotland

Essentially, Edward son of Henry VIII and Mary daughter of James V are married. Edward becomes Consort of Scotland, Mary Consort of England, and both are King & Queen of Ireland.
Edward still dies young but he has a daughter Margaret with Mary.

How do we get to this situation?
What are the line of successions? Does either monarch produce an Act of Succession and would it be followed?
What is the religious situation like?
 
James does not die before fathering a son with Marie de Guise and betrothing Mary to Edward. The son dies after James, leaving Mary as heir.

As for the line of succession, assuming Henry still passes the Acts, it'll go Margaret (with Mary as regent) -> Mary Tudor -> Elizabeth -> the Greys.
 
Third Act of Succession in reference to England remains in force - so Edward's daughter succeeds him in England, Wales and Ireland as Margaret I - undisputed by anyone.

As to Mary there is nothing to prevent her remarriage and if she has a son by any subsequent match he would be her heir in Scotland.

If she has remained Catholic (which is not guaranteed given the marriage is likely to have meant the English gained custody of her quite early and one assumes despite what guarantees were given to the Scots and her mother Marie of Guise she is more likely to have been raised with Edward in the Protestant faith) - then the English court is not going to allow her to be regent for her daughter and it is likely Northumberland (assuming his coup has still happened) or Somerset (if he survives) would retain control for the infant Queen Regnant.
Either way you have two choices - the English court tries to keep her in England and single to avoid an alternative heir to Scotland - the Scots Lords try and get her home and remarried to avoid the English inheriting Scotland.
If she is Protestant then she will have strong support from her half brother and the Lords than in OTL - if she is Catholic then she will have modest support from English Catholics (hoping she will influence her infant daughter)and support from Scots Catholics.

Mary and Elizabeth are unlikely to take any action given the succession law was clear - though you might have a catholic rising in favour of the Princess Mary at some point if Edward's robust Protestantism was continued by his council on behalf of his daughter.
 
Essentially, Edward son of Henry VIII and Mary daughter of James V are married. Edward becomes Consort of Scotland, Mary Consort of England, and both are King & Queen of Ireland.
Edward still dies young but he has a daughter Margaret with Mary.
I love that they name the child after her grandmother, Margaret Tudor and after his paternal great-grandmother,

How do we get to this situation?
In 1542, King Henry VIII of England took the opportunity of the regency to propose marriage between Mary and his own son, Prince Edward, hoping for a union of Scotland and England.
On 1 July 1543, when Mary was six months old, the Treaty of Greenwich was signed, which promised that at the age of ten Mary would marry Edward and move to England, where Henry could oversee her upbringing.

Just have this treaty come through, maybe with an early death of King Henry VIII, have the two living together in Carlisle Castle?


What are the line of successions?
It would stay the same for each individual nation until, Queen Margaret reaches an age where she can produce children.

Does either monarch produce an Act of Succession and would it be followed?
Princess Margaret, would be the heir for both monarchs, when Edward dies, she is Queen of England and would be heir to her mother, unless she has a son from another husband.

What is the religious situation like?
As Edward dies before he can lean Margaret toward Church of England and with her mother, Mary and aunt, Mary both being Catholic these two may try to reverse the spread of Protestantism through England and return to the Pope.
 
Some nice answers - and yeah Margaret seemed an apt name for a daughter of Edward and Mary Stuart/Stewart.

Making QoS Mary's brother live longer seems a good way to increase her chances of marrying Edward.
Would the betrothal and marriage have moderated Edward's religious upbringing so it is less Protestant and more in mind of Henry's "Anglo-Catholicism"?

I assume the marriage and later inheritance of Mary would cancel out removing the earlier Margaret Tudor from the English succession. How does this affect the Regency?

What's the Scottish succession line at this point?
 
The problem of James V surviving is that it probably makes an alliance even more unlikely.
James' relationship with his uncle was poor at the best of times and he was firmly committed to the Catholic Church and his alliance with France.
People like Cardinal Beaton would have also encouraged the King against an English match.

Even with James V dying as in OTL leaving the throne to his newborn daughter it doesn't rule out a match.

All it really needs is the Treaty of Greenwich in 1543 to survive and get ratified by the Scots Parliament (removing Beaton earlier than his OTL murder might help).
Henry was willing to buy of Scots peers to get his aims through - if Henry doesn't screw it up as he did in our timeline and he keeps Arran on side it might be possible to have the agreement stick.

The real sticking point for it will be in around 1552 when the Catholic raised ten-year-old Mary is expected to be despatched to England - if Arran is still ruling as effective regent and has stayed loyal to the English then it still might be possible - but I can't see Mary of Guise being willing to send her daughter to the by now very Protestant English Court without a fight.

Then it might become a Catholic-French backed fight to keep her out of English Protestant hands and that could go either way in 1552/3.

In reality Edward is going to have to live until around 1558 to 64 to safely marry and bed Mary and produce a child.
 
Some nice answers - and yeah Margaret seemed an apt name for a daughter of Edward and Mary Stuart/Stewart.
It is a wonderful name, I would love to see Queen Margaret, unite the two kingdoms.

Making QoS Mary's brother live longer seems a good way to increase her chances of marrying Edward.
Would the betrothal and marriage have moderated Edward's religious upbringing so it is less Protestant and more in mind of Henry's "Anglo-Catholicism"?
I would hope that maybe an "Anglo-Catholicism" would keep England accepted in Europe and help foreign relations, and maybe see a better colonization of North America, with the three catholic nations helping one another.

I assume the marriage and later inheritance of Mary would cancel out removing the earlier Margaret Tudor from the English succession. How does this affect the Regency?
Mary's marriage would hope to produce a son, that would marry his cousin?

What's the Scottish succession line at this point?
Well with his brother, James, Duke of Rothesay, living longer, it all depends on how long he lives for and if he has an heir, if not, then Mary, will be Queen with her daughter as heir, unless she has son with a second husband.
 
I'm thinking that Mary's older brother lives - becoming James VI - until shortly after her marriage to Edward. If this alt-James VI is betrothed to a French Princess, the Scots would perhaps accede to an alternate Treaty of Greenwich where Mary is betrothed to Edward.
 
I'm thinking that Mary's older brother lives - becoming James VI - until shortly after her marriage to Edward. If this alt-James VI is betrothed to a French Princess, the Scots would perhaps accede to an alternate Treaty of Greenwich where Mary is betrothed to Edward.

If you have Prince James, become King James VI, with King Henry VIII dying earlier. The two regency may want a union.
What about King Edward VI marrying Princess Mary or Elizabeth
 
The problem with this is if either of James V's sons live the war with England was pretty inevitable

So assuming James V meets the same end but his eldest son survives then the Scots are in a slightly better position they have an infant King and his baby sister.

Arran as in otl probably becomes regent for James VI and may be tempted to offer the English Mary as a bride for the prince of wales to end the conflict.
Henry is just as likely to offer Lady Elizabeth (OTL Elizabeth I) as a bride for James VI as part of any deal (in OTl he offered her to Arran's son - who after Mary and Arran was next in line to the Scots throne).

Arran switched between English and French alliances and was under pressure from Cardinal Beaton and the Queen Dowager and the French - he aso switched religions with as much frequency.
Henry himself cocked up negotiations with his rather high-handed diplomacy.
If you add in his rivalry with the Lennox's (which is how Matthew ended up married to Margaret Douglas and in exile in |England) and the situation becomes very messy.
If the French offer support then a condition (as it was for James V) might be a french marriage for James VI when he came of age.
The English particularly after Henry's death have less to gain by pursuing war with Scotland simply to gain Mary as a wife when she wasn't a Queen Regnant.
By the mid 1550s other wives for Edward VI might be a better a bet particularly to unsettle any Franco-Scots alliance.

I think if you get to say 15553/4 with the teenage James VI beginning to break free from his mother and Arran - then you might have opportunites for an Anglo-Scots alliance - if James is perhaps tired of his pro-French courtiers and favours his pro-English ones. There is also a chance he falls in with his half brother and under the influence of the Protestant Lords - refuses to honour the proposed French matches agreed in the 1540s - Mary to marry the Dauphin and James to marry Elisabeth or Claude of France and instead offers a dual match to England - Mary to marry Edward VI and James to marry Edwards' favourite sister Elizabeth - then it is a possibility.
the proposals are agreed and the two King's plan to meet at York to formalise the proposals - James marries Elizabeth in 1555/6 say and Mary is to be married to Edward on her 14th birthday at the end of 1557 beginning of 1558.

Elizabeth hates the Scots court and is suspected on all sides - suspiciously protestant to James' catholic mother and not Protestant enough for the Lords. Mary will find similar problems as she travels south to England as its Queen in Spring 1558 especially when Edward VI expells the confessor her mother insisted travels with her.

Meanwhile a fanatical Catholic priest concerned about James VI's dubious religious views and egged on by the Pope's recent warning to James stabs the King whilst he is on progress in late summer 1558.

After it becomes apparent Elizabeth is not with child the Scots are forced to name Mary as lawful Queen of Scots.
 
The problem with this is if either of James V's sons live the war with England was pretty inevitable

So assuming James V meets the same end but his eldest son survives then the Scots are in a slightly better position they have an infant King and his baby sister.

Arran as in otl probably becomes regent for James VI and may be tempted to offer the English Mary as a bride for the prince of wales to end the conflict.
Henry is just as likely to offer Lady Elizabeth (OTL Elizabeth I) as a bride for James VI as part of any deal (in OTl he offered her to Arran's son - who after Mary and Arran was next in line to the Scots throne).

Arran switched between English and French alliances and was under pressure from Cardinal Beaton and the Queen Dowager and the French - he aso switched religions with as much frequency.
Henry himself cocked up negotiations with his rather high-handed diplomacy.
If you add in his rivalry with the Lennox's (which is how Matthew ended up married to Margaret Douglas and in exile in |England) and the situation becomes very messy.
If the French offer support then a condition (as it was for James V) might be a french marriage for James VI when he came of age.
The English particularly after Henry's death have less to gain by pursuing war with Scotland simply to gain Mary as a wife when she wasn't a Queen Regnant.
By the mid 1550s other wives for Edward VI might be a better a bet particularly to unsettle any Franco-Scots alliance.

I think if you get to say 15553/4 with the teenage James VI beginning to break free from his mother and Arran - then you might have opportunites for an Anglo-Scots alliance - if James is perhaps tired of his pro-French courtiers and favours his pro-English ones. There is also a chance he falls in with his half brother and under the influence of the Protestant Lords - refuses to honour the proposed French matches agreed in the 1540s - Mary to marry the Dauphin and James to marry Elisabeth or Claude of France and instead offers a dual match to England - Mary to marry Edward VI and James to marry Edwards' favourite sister Elizabeth - then it is a possibility.
the proposals are agreed and the two King's plan to meet at York to formalise the proposals - James marries Elizabeth in 1555/6 say and Mary is to be married to Edward on her 14th birthday at the end of 1557 beginning of 1558.

Elizabeth hates the Scots court and is suspected on all sides - suspiciously protestant to James' catholic mother and not Protestant enough for the Lords. Mary will find similar problems as she travels south to England as its Queen in Spring 1558 especially when Edward VI expells the confessor her mother insisted travels with her.

Meanwhile a fanatical Catholic priest concerned about James VI's dubious religious views and egged on by the Pope's recent warning to James stabs the King whilst he is on progress in late summer 1558.

After it becomes apparent Elizabeth is not with child the Scots are forced to name Mary as lawful Queen of Scots.

That sounds promising.
Of course this means that tensions with the French may be higher so one can see overtures made to the Spanish. Ironically Mary could end up married to Philip in TTL too
 
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