Industrial Revolution in a surviving Tudor England: A Possibility?

[Libertad]

I'm taking into account a possibility that the Tudors might remain in power through the 17th century..., an alternate English Civil War would have the royalists won... Keeping England into the Old Regime ideals... The Parliament would remain an instrument of the monarch... so that England would remain an absolute monarchy....

I'm a believer into how political institutions and philosophies affect economic productivity, innovation and business freedom... Without the effects of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution; Will an absolutist Tudor England produce an Industrial Revolution? Can it be done? How...?

Tell me your thoughts...

(This idea is inspired by the Code Geass anime... which has an unbelievable timeline...)

 

[Falastur]

There are a lot of ifs and maybes, you need to elaborate on how Britain develops more. For instance a proper industrial revolution needs a large wealthy merchant class - which can be done in an absolutist state, but depends on how things develop. Does this industrialist landowning middle class arise? And when is your revolution anyway? as butterfly theory says it will not happen at the same time as OTL. Also I think it's somewhat naive or oversimplified to claim that Tudor era = weak Parliament, especially when you are butterflying Elizabeth's reign and extending the dynasty several generations (need a line of male monarchs for the Tudor dynasty to survive). It's unlikely there would even be a Civil War, at least as we know it, since the ECW was as much a product of the stubbornness of the men involved as it was a product of the age.

In short, it's hard to speculate decades into the future with a POD so far behind the period in question, and you can't assume that any event will transpire as it did OTL

 

[mcdnab]

In short even Tudor England was not an absolutist state - Parliament was technically independent of the crown and the crown had no standing army under its control.
If anything Parliament gained power through the desire and need of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth to enact religious legislation and impose their settlement.
Elizabeth might have told parliament she was an "absolute princess" but she wasn't in the modern view of the term.
A surviving Tudor dynasty might even avoid a civil war given that all the tudors even the worst of them managed parliament better than the Stuarts.
The main source of conflict was between those who favoured a more 'Protestant' reformation from Elizabeth's reign onwards and those who preferred the more catholic leaning Anglican compromise of Henry VIII and Elizabeth.
That conflict is reduced without the union of the crowns - a significant spark of revolution was the desire of Charles I to push the Scots Kirk closer to the Anglican one (with its Royal Supremacy).
No union will also mean that many of the great creative sparks of the industrial revolution will remain Scots subjects not British ones which might slow industrialisation.
One of the main blocks on industrialisation in many countries has been the limits placed on social advancement and the acceptability of trade - whilst England was no less snobbish than its continental neighbours it was always far easier for wealthy merchants to advance up the social scale and gain prestige, power and influence and many of them were motivators for change.