Elizabeth I dies at Bisley

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So, there's apparently an age-old conspiracy theory that Queen Elizabeth was actually a man in drag, and the real Elizabeth died at about 10 years of age in a town called Bisley (where she was sent from London to avoid the plague). From there the dead Elizabeth was replaced by her nurse with a local boy who went on to become a literal drag queen and Henry VIII didn't notice.

The whole idea's absurd and I'm almost certainly sure it didn't happen, but it made me think- what if Elizabeth did actually die at Bisley for whatever reason? I doubt an impostor will take her place, but her nurse will probably get quite the beheading from Henry.

What happens in a world where Elizabeth doesn't make it to adulthood? Who gets the English throne?
 
Mary Tudor makes Mary Queen of Scots her heir. Because Mary Queen of Scots is still the Dauphine, Parliament bides it's time and on Queen Mary's death, gives the crown to Catherine Grey.
 
Mary Tudor makes Mary Queen of Scots her heir. Because Mary Queen of Scots is still the Dauphine, Parliament bides it's time and on Queen Mary's death, gives the crown to Catherine Grey.

Except that MQoS was Dauphine of France at that time. Parliament would be outraged and Mary's Spanish husband (who was at war with France) would be dead against it. Also. many lawyers argued that a prince(ss) of foreign birth was ineligible to succeed.

My guess is that Mary gets Parliament to change the succession and make Margaret Countess of Lennox (who was born in Northumberland) heiress to the throne.
 
Again what stops Edward vi surviving?
Tuberculosis.
If Edward does survive, and produce issue, it's neither here nor there if Elizabeth dies at Bisley (1543). It comes down to how one handles the POD. If narrowly handled one could go from: the caretakers dress up a boy and pass him off as Elizabeth: or broadly say, Henry somehow fathers a son by Catherine Parr.
 
My guess is that Mary gets Parliament to change the succession and make Margaret Countess of Lennox (who was born in Northumberland) heiress to the throne.
I'm picturing a Parliament that prefers a Protestant succession, one that sort of threads the needle in the question of succession: while they don't flat out disrespect Queen Mary, they don't seriously consider her suggestion (by the time Queen Mary acknowledged that she wasn't going to have an heir let say late March 1558 more than a few people had gone to the stake). They basically dust off Edward VI's will and run with that.
 
H8 had disinherited sister Margaret's children; therefore sister Mary's children are more likely to inherit. Even E6 went with that one.
 
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