Edward V of England

He is not deposed but is crowned and reigns until his mid-fifties or even older. How is his reign? Possible marriages, for himself and his sisters? Relations with the nobility and church? Would Henry Tudor attempt to over-throw him or return to England in peace?
 
He is not deposed but is crowned and reigns until his mid-fifties or even older. How is his reign? Possible marriages, for himself and his sisters? Relations with the nobility and church? Would Henry Tudor attempt to over-throw him or return to England in peace?

So Edward V reigns from 9 April 1483 to 1520/1530. Fourty years under Edward would see loyalty to Rome.
Catholicism staying as the State Religion.
With him staying friendly with the Church and the Nobility.

Wife options:
- Anne of Brittany
- Isabella of Aragon
- Maria of Aragon
- Elizabeth of Denmark
- Margaret of Austria, daughter of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Mary, Duchess of Burgundy

With Henry Tudor still marrying Elizabeth of York, he will most likely hope for a high peerage and influence in Court, as he has no ill-will to the young king, with the regents seeing this as a horrible way to become King.
 
Stability particularly in the North would be dependant upon how Richard's effectively vice-regal position is handled. The method he used for building a loyal clique (confronting the Stanleys) is likely to provoke unrest at least in the first few years in which Edward V is in a minority and a potentially unpopular Woodville-dominated council is in control. If Edward V tries to rely upon the personal popularity method for ensuring loyalty as his father did then he may face difficulty, certainly this would not lead to the degree of centralisation of power that Henry VII managed through the methods of bonds and recognances (however unpopular).

Tudor may attempt a usurpation if magnates become discontented or a popular uprising occurs, certainly there is a high likelihood of him exploiting a fairly inevitable taxation-based popular rebellion. Yorkist foreign policy based upon an Anglo-Breton-Burgundian affinity seems unlikely to change so as with OTL Tudor seems likely to end up as a pretender based in the French court, possibly as a long lived source of instability and plots.
 
Henry Tudor won't be marrying Elizabeth of York, she as the sister of a reigning monarch will be married to a foreign Prince, not a penniless, Lancastrian pretender.
 
Henry Tudor won't be marrying Elizabeth of York, she as the sister of a reigning monarch will be married to a foreign Prince, not a penniless, Lancastrian pretender.

But to keep the Lancastrian pretenders away from the throne, would the king not offer him, a wife?

If not who does Elizabeth marry?
 
But to keep the Lancastrian pretenders away from the throne, would the king not offer him, a wife?

If not who does Elizabeth marry?

Why offer his sister? All that does is give him an even stronger claim, albeit still a tenuous one.

If anything, Edward would try to saddle him with a penniless woman from a unimportant family.
 
But to keep the Lancastrian pretenders away from the throne, would the king not offer him, a wife?

If not who does Elizabeth marry?

The most that Tudor might gain in return for acceptance of the Yorkist dynasty was a restoration to the Earldom of Richmond and reversal of any attainders against his family.
 
Tudor marries Elizabeth Herbert (as was originally the plan), and Lizzie marries Maximilian of Austria - the idea was being floated of her as Empress around the time of her dad's death, what with the French breaking her engagement to the dauphin and all.

Most likely match for Edward is Anne of Brittany. Failing her, Isabel of Aragon (since she was offered as a possible bride for Edward of Middleham during his father's reign).
 
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