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What if the smallpox which Elizabeth caught in this year had killed her, the third of Henry VIII's children to die childless after a short reign? The extinction of the Tudor dynasty would cause a succession crisis with the obvious claimant- Mary, Queen of Scots- a Roman Catholic. Would Mary stand a chance of taking the throne of (barely, four years after Bloody Mary) Protestant England? Was there any real alternative? Was a peaceful succession even possible?
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