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Pretty much what it says on the tin. I was wondering what would happen if Henry VIII stayed Catholic (let's say a son instead of Mary as our POD) but the Scottish reformation still happened as per OTL.

Would a catholic king of England see the military conquest and forceful counter-reformation of Scotland as an enterprise worth doing? And if so, would the 16th-century English have the military capacity to carry this out?

Scotland would almost certainly have a Catholic 5th column that would collaborate with any English invasion, but in this scenario England would likely have a Protestant 5th column in the form of converts gained by more radical reformers than OTL. This could trigger an English version of the wars of religion and weaken England militarily.

So what do more knowledgeable people think? Protestant Scotland stays independent, or gets conquered and razed?
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