Henry the Great

1519: King Henry VIII Tudor (1491-1547) becomes a widower when Catherine, Queen of England, dies from the sweating sickness. All of England mourns. (POD)

1520: Mary Boleyn marries Sir William Carey; King Henry VIII is a wedding guest.

1521: William Carey breaks his neck when thrown from his horse while hunting. (Rumors abound he was killed on orders from Mary's uncles.)

1522: Henry VIII marries Mary Boleyn who becomes Queen of England.

1526: Mary gives birth to Prince Henry Tudor.

1543: Queen Mary dies.

1547: Henry IX Tudor (1526-1596) son of Heny VIII, becomes King.

1596: George I Tudor (1547-1603) son of Henry IX, becomes King.

1603: Elizabeth Berkeley (1576-1634) daughter of George I, becomes Queen.

1634: George II Berkeley (1601-1658) son of Elizabeth, becomes King.

1658: George III Berkeley (1628-1698) son of George II, becomes King.

1698: Charles Berkeley (1649-1710) son of George III, becomes King.

1711: James Berkeley (1679-1736) son of Charles I, becomes King.

1736: Augustus Berkeley (1715-1755) son of James I, becomes King.

1755: Frederick Augustus Berkeley (1745–1810) son of Augustus, becomes King.

1810: Thomas Berkeley (1796–1882), son of Frederick Augustus, becomes King.

1882: Louisa Berkeley (1840–1899), daughter of Thomas, becomes Queen. (With Louisa, princesses kept the dynastic name on marriage.)

1899: Eva Berkely (1875–1964), daughter of Louisa, becomes Queen.

1964: Mary Berkeley (1905–1992), daughter of Eva, becomes Queen.

1992: Anthony Berkeley (b. 1939), nephew of Mary, becomes King and his son Prince Thomas Berkeley (b. 1969) becomes Prince of Wales.
 
So, let's discuss Henry IX Tudor, Henry the Great in TTL and Henry Carey in OTL. Could he have been a "the Great" if his father had married his mother because Catherine was dead? What would a Catholic England been like in the late 16th Century?
 
Torn apart by religious conflict as Huguenots and Presbyterians infiltrated into society.

I can see Princess Mary's descendants (assuming Henry would have married her off to one of his allies following the birth of a son) disputing the throne with these lowly Berkeleys.

The naming pattern in that list is odd given royal families tendency to use parents and grandparents name for children.
 
How did all of these sons of daughters keep their family name?

Why do they all have such Germanic names? Where are the Edwards, the Henrys, the Williams?

These are the actual descendants of Henry Carey, the son of Mary Boleyn and most likely Henry VIII in our timeline.

Henry Carey's grand-daughter married Sir Thomas Harding Berkeley and in OTL her descendants kept he family name of Berkely up through Louisa and her grand-daughter Mary recovered the family name. I just had the Berkleys decide to do in the late 19th Century what the Windsors did in the 20th Century, have the husband of the inheriting princess take the family name. I figured that after 300 years the name Berkeley and Royalty would be pretty inter-twined. In OTL just for a barony it was so inter-twined that Mary recovered the family name.
 
These are the actual descendants of Henry Carey, the son of Mary Boleyn and most likely Henry VIII in our timeline.

Henry Carey's grand-daughter married Sir Thomas Harding Berkeley and in OTL her descendants kept he family name of Berkely up through Louisa and her grand-daughter Mary recovered the family name. I just had the Berkleys decide to do in the late 19th Century what the Windsors did in the 20th Century, have the husband of the inheriting princess take the family name. I figured that after 400 years the name Berkeley and Royalty would be pretty inter-twined. In OTL just for a barony it was so inter-twined that Mary recovered the family name.

Henry IX or George I is not going to marry his daughter to a lowly knight.
 
Why do they all have such Germanic names? Where are the Edwards, the Henrys, the Williams?

These are the actual descendants of Henry Carey, the son of Mary Boleyn and most likely Henry VIII in our timeline.

Henry Carey's grand-daughter married Sir Thomas Harding Berkeley and in OTL her descendants kept he family name of Berkely up through Louisa and her grand-daughter Mary recovered the family name. I just had the Berkleys decide to do in the late 19th Century what the Windsors did in the 20th Century, have the husband of the inheriting princess take the family name. I figured that after 300 years the name Berkeley and Royalty would be pretty inter-twined. In OTL just for a barony it was so inter-twined that Mary recovered the family name.

Henry IX or George I is not going to marry his daughter to a lowly knight.
As Velasco says, thats not going to happen.

And seconding ?thespitron?s comment, the name choices of a minor aristocrat are much more flixible than the choices of a monarch. The mind boggles at a native king named George, let alone a seies of them, for instance.

Otoh, George WAS the patron saint for Englant, so it should be possible.
 
Not much of a problem with George (patron saint and strong cult at the back end of the 15th century)
However we know that Henry only ever chose Henry or Edward for his numerous lost sons.

One important point - i think it highly unlikely that a Henry VIII widowed in 1519 is going to a) wait three years to remarry (given he has only a 3 year old daughter) and b) marry the relatively low-born wife of a knight (even if she is a granddaughter of a Howard) c) his marriage in OTL to Anne Boleyn was largely motivated by the fact he was in love with her and chose to ignore everything else there is little evidence that he ever felt that way for her sister.

If Henry is greedy and willing to wait a few years for a healthy heir then Renee of France (sister of Queen Claude, and step daughter of his sister Mary Tudor) is a strong possibility (she was born in 1510).
If he can get a papal dispensation then his first wife's niece might give him a fresh imperial alliance - Catherine of Austria (b1507) (in otl she married in 1525).
Both the above had several children - Renee is my favourite as she became strongly attracted and later converted to calvinism.
 
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