Edward VI marries Jane Grey

A question for you all out there, prompted by Desmirelle's own suggestion. What would it take for Edward VI to decide to marry Jane Grey instead of abroad? And if he does marry her, what would this mean for England as a whole? Especially if the two manage to have kids, and Edward either lives longer or still pops it.
 
My having him do it was his sister Mary wedding and having a child; it's more a knee-jerk reaction to try to avoid a Catholic succession. Jane was available. It wasn't a great idea but it got him on the road to a Tudor succession of protestant nature.
 
Maybe play around so that Henry Grey gets the regency, and is in position to foist/suggest/encourage Edward to marry his daughter? Though I don't think Grey has the political skill to pull off such a maneuvre successfully, and Edward would likely react negatively to Grey being too forceful on the matter.

Other than that, yeah, love (though Edward was a pretty sombre guy).
 
Maybe play around so that Henry Grey gets the regency, and is in position to foist/suggest/encourage Edward to marry his daughter? Though I don't think Grey has the political skill to pull off such a maneuvre successfully, and Edward would likely react negatively to Grey being too forceful on the matter.

Other than that, yeah, love (though Edward was a pretty sombre guy).
Ah alright interesting...hmm
 
Jane was of a serious bent herself, so just bringing her around so that the fact that she's available is obvious when Edward decides he needs a wife might be all it takes. He knows she's serious about Protestantism, she's smart, she presents as a good, Christian girl who will make a good Christian wife. (Mary just had a son! OMG! I need to marry! Oh, hi, Jane, doing anything tomorrow morning? Wanna be Queen and keep the horrible Catholics off the throne? )
 
Tudor boys seemed to have a genetic tendency to be weak in some area physically; H8 was the exception and it's believed his leg ulcer was his version of this weakness. Odds are, yeah, Edward wasn't going to die an old man....or even a middle-aged one.
 
I also wonder who Mary would be allowed to marry considering how limitied she was during her fathers reign aha
 
My plan in the original TL this idea came from was a foreign royal/noble who was Catholic (since Mary wouldn't wed else); the point was to get her out of the country. It also leads E6 to decide to wed ASAP - on his 14th birthday, to be precise. Which was why he went with Jane - available and nearby.
 
You would really need to change Edward VI's character - until he became ill he wasn't considered weak in either body or mind or expected to die young - in fact those who knew him saw him as a mini-version of his father with a very strong sense of his Royal status (just like both his sister's).

The council and Edward kept a close eye on both his sisters - there was until it became clear he was dying no real reason to marry them off or get them out of the country to facilitate a succession that would satisfy the King and his council - and once he became ill there was little point in marrying himself as it was equally unlikely that he would be well enougth to consumate the marriage and produce children.

Even if Somerset or later Northumberland had opted to get Mary away - A Catholic marriage was just not going ot happen and she herself was very unwilling to run away abroad - though i believe there was one point she considered it.

He either has to fall madly in love with Jane and be allowed to have her by the council despite his relative youth and she just wasn't in his presence enough at the right period for an attachment to form. Perhaps more importantly he was a King who would be throwing away his greatest diplomatic bargaining chip - his marriage and I just don't think Edward VI would have done it or allow himself to be browbeaten to it.
 
You would really need to change Edward VI's character - until he became ill he wasn't considered weak in either body or mind or expected to die young - in fact those who knew him saw him as a mini-version of his father with a very strong sense of his Royal status (just like both his sister's).

The council and Edward kept a close eye on both his sisters - there was until it became clear he was dying no real reason to marry them off or get them out of the country to facilitate a succession that would satisfy the King and his council - and once he became ill there was little point in marrying himself as it was equally unlikely that he would be well enougth to consumate the marriage and produce children.

Even if Somerset or later Northumberland had opted to get Mary away - A Catholic marriage was just not going ot happen and she herself was very unwilling to run away abroad - though i believe there was one point she considered it.

He either has to fall madly in love with Jane and be allowed to have her by the council despite his relative youth and she just wasn't in his presence enough at the right period for an attachment to form. Perhaps more importantly he was a King who would be throwing away his greatest diplomatic bargaining chip - his marriage and I just don't think Edward VI would have done it or allow himself to be browbeaten to it.

Alright, so who would be the most likely option for him to marry then? Elisabeth de Valois? And how might one butterfly away the illness that killed him?
 
Edward was likely tubercular, but it was inactive until he caught the measles.

Or, if you subscribe to the theory, Northumberland poisoned him with arsenic, which in is deadly, but when ingested over a long period of time, actually prolongs life rather than shortens it.

Now, my apologies if I'm derailing the thread but I was thinking today at work about this:

Edward marries Jane, but dies before they can have children (because let's face it, they may be only fifteen but if he's already sick it mightn't happen as quickly as it should - and perhaps it doesn't, or they do, but she doesn't get pregnant before he dies).

From my post in a different thread:

Northumberland marries the dying Edward VI to Jane. Thus, after Ned kicks, unless it can be proved that the marriage wasn't consummated (which many will see as Catholic propaganda anyhow), Jane gets some breathing room until she has her courses. Of course, this keeps Jane on the throne - only as holder of the Crown Matrimonial - (unless Edward's published his Device for the Succession) for a bit longer than nine days.

How does this affect things? Can she be considered a well-known enough figure to be proclaimed queen in her own right. And if Parliament's ratified Ned's device, who will support Mary against Jane (besides maybe the Habsburgs)?
 
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