Kagemusha: Tudor Style

Mark Twain picked Edward the Sixth as his monarch for treatment in the Prince and the Pauper. Akira Kurosawa picked Takeda Shingen for Kagemusha. What if we combine these stores into a singular tale?

I don't know if this isn't ASB but I'm not quite sure where to postulate a crazy idea like this one.

Basically either the Prince and the Pauper is canon to this universe, or simply Tom Canty is found as a thief and criminal raised by that abusive father and when he is being judged is brought before the King for his stark resemblance. King Edward, knowing he is ill and knowing his sister Mary is Catholic and wants to reconvert the nation, decides to use Edward as a body double for as long as it take to neutralize Mary or secure the succession of Lady Jane Grey. Whom in OTL was beheaded my Mary's supporters... I'm not knowledgeable about English or Forgien politics of this time, but I seems like a fun if implausible scenario that came to me when I mixed two stories of identical strangers.

Hm... Maybe if Hollywood runs out of ideas they can take this and run with it. If they've made Battleship into a movie who knows what else they're willing to do.
 
ASB.Totally,or are you trying to ask whether an attempt to make such a fiction would be critically and commercially a success in film or literatures?
 
Perkin Warbeck. A total stranger playing the part of a royal may be implausible, but a pretender raised up by, say, a faction of the court worried about Mary Tudor might not be.
 
Well, if The Prince and the Pauper has the boys as young children around 9ish... Then there might be enough time for their mannerisms to become similar enough to fool the court. One question may be for how long can this charade go if it does occur... OTl Edward VI died around 15 that's six years for the two to go back and forth... Ya never know...
 
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The closest you can get to a Tudor Kagemusha is a story about someone pretending to be Henry VIII, largely because Shingen is rightfully depicted as a ruthless leader and I feel that Henry could be a fit for the same role. However how do you have it end, if there's no climatic battle?
 
The closest you can get to a Tudor Kagemusha is a story about someone pretending to be Henry VIII, largely because Shingen is rightfully depicted as a ruthless leader and I feel that Henry could be a fit for the same role. However how do you have it end, if there's no climatic battle?

Spanish Armada led by Philip and Mary?
 
I suppose, OTL the Spanish Armada invaded some 40 years after Henry's death... Also I doubt a match between Spain and England would've gone over well in Henry VIII's mind...

Well, with Edward VI, it would make more sense. And given that he began the main push away from Catholic doctrine. it makes sense.
 
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