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I've been wondering this since I read The Dead Live TL. There, Enrique V takes the title of Emperor of Spain, in spite of him only ruling Castile (although his son and heir is engaged to an Aragonese princess, who is the only child of the king of Aragon by his FIRST wife (she has a brother by her dad's second marriage)).

Fernando and Isabella, surely, would've had a better claim to this title OTL? They actually UNITED Castile and Aragon, and conquered Granada and Spanish Navarre. Yet the title of emperor/empress was never taken. From what I've read of Fernando he seems like he would've liked an imperial title (if only so he could stick it to his son-in-law, Philipp of Austria).

Would it be plausible for them to take the title of imperator/-trix totiae Hispaniae? Sure, João II of Portugal would object like he did OTL to the use of the term "Spain" but OTL that was ALL he did: object.

PS: I'm considering Fernando and Isabella taking this title in my TL. Maybe given the same time that they get "the most Catholic monarchs". What do you guys think?
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