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The title says it all. OTL Henry VIII saw FitzRoy's birth as vindication that the failure to produce a boy as his wife's fault. Not to mention, he had a tendency to drop his mistress after she'd done her duty (both Bessie Blount and Mary Boleyn had second pregnancies where Henry's paternity is in question. Bessie's daughter, Elizabeth was born before her marriage to her husband, while Henry Carey was considered as the king's bastard by some, but the son of Carey by others).

So, what if Henry and Elizabeth Fitzroy's genders are reversed? Or even if Bessie gives the king two bastard daughters? (I don't think Henry VIII will make such a fuss over ANOTHER girl as he did over FitzRoy OTL). Would he take this as a Divine message that he should ready Mary for a throne and make his peace with the looming end of the Tudors/Plantagenet? Or do things simply move as OTL?
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