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So, I have watched a few documentaries and read a couple of books about the Tudors and the Plantagenets and they all mention the fact that King Edward IV might not actually be the son of Richard, Duke of York, as the Duke of York was actually fighting in France during the period in which Edward must have been conceived.

This means that the whole Tudor line had no legitimate claim to the throne of England, and thus the Stuarts and Hanovers subsequently would not have been the Kings of England. If the ancestry of King Edward IV was discovered before his ascension to the throne of England, then the throne would have passed to his brother, George, Duke of Clarence.

So the following would not be true;
- Scotland and England were never united
- Victoria would never have become "The Grandmother of Europe"
- The Wars of the Roses would never have happened
- Henry VIII would never have founded the Church of England

The Kings of England would look more like this:
King George I Plantagenet
King Edward IV Plantagenet
Queen Margaret I Pole
King Henry VII Pole
King Henry VIII Pole
Queen Catherine I Hastings
King Henry IX Hastings
King George II Hastings
King Francis I Hastings
King Henry X Hastings
King Ferdinando I Hastings
King Theophilus I Hastings
King George III Hastings
King Theophilus II Hastings
King Francis II Hastings
Queen Elizabeth I Rawdon
King Francis III Rawdon-Hastings
King George IV Rawdon-Hastings
King Paulyn I Rawdon-Hastings
King Henry XI Rawdon-Hastings
Queen Edith I Rawdon-Hastings
King Charles I Rawdon-Hastings
King Paulyn II Rawdon-Hastings
Queen Edith II Abney-Hastings
King Ian I Abney-Hastings
Queen Barbara I Abney-Hastings
King Michael I Abney-Hastings
King Simon I Abney-Hastings

So, what else would have changed if these monarchs ruled England?
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