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November 1557: Queen Mary I is delivered of a healthy son, who is baptized Henry Philip Charles. She dies almost exactly one year later on November 17, 1558. The infant Prince of Wales is duly crowned King Henry IX under the supervision of his Spanish father, Felipe II.

For the purposes of this What If, we can assume that everyone dies on schedule as they did in the original timeline. So Felipe's eldest son and heir Don Carlos dies in 1568, leaving eleven-year-old Henry IX (Enrique) the heir to his father's vast domains as well when Felipe dies in 1598. His aunt Elizabeth survives until 1603 (perhaps in this timeline she accepts Felipe's offer of marriage, having much less chance of ever taking the English throne).

What sort of world can we expect if a Catholic heir had been born to take the English throne, and later, the Spanish as well? England's fate would've been much more closely tied to that of Spain. Is Protestantism firmly stamped out in England?
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