5th of July, 1537: Queen Mary of England gives birth to a premature baby boy, who is named Henry and given the title Duke of York.
Thus Mary is pushed farther in the line of succession.
Life is good when you're Mother of the Heir, but at what cost?
17th of July, 1537: Princess Louise of France dies. This leaves Queen Eleanor with only Louis as her child (with her), so she leaves the court again and takes her son to the country. Francis is not amused.
Aww. Mama Eleanor would very much prefer not to let her son out of her sight now, I presume?
29th of July, 1537: After long negotiations, Prince Henri de Valois: Duke of Orleans is married by proxy to Princess Isabella Jagiellon.
Somewhere in the Continent, someone is throwing fits of jealousy.
8th of August, 1537: King Henry of England is seen with a new, young courtier by the name of Catherine Howard.
Hello, Catherine. Now if you could somehow bring Anne of Cleves to England, we will have all of Henry's OTL queens in the same place at the same time. Diplomatic visit, perhaps?
19th of August, 1537: Anne of Cleves saves her husband when a man who tries to stab the Emperor but she pushes the man down the stairs where he is apprehended. Charles V was grateful.
Speak of the lady. Anne seems happy in the Habsburg court. Not to mention the Emperor is probably bestowing honour upon honour on her after she saved his life.
1st of September, 1537: Lady Magdalen attacks Catherine Howard when she sees the young courtier walking with the King.
Temper, dear. I hope Catherine's fine.
16th of September, 1537: Francis I of France attempts to recall his Queen to court when it begins to get embarrassing that she isn’t there. But Eleanor refuses and also refuses to let Louis leave her sights.
On the other hand, Eleanor being away leaves him plenty of time with satiating his lust. I wonder if Louis grows up to become a mama's boy.
30th of September, 1537: Henry VIII officially offers Prince Edward’s hand in marriage to Princess Mary of Scotland. At the same time King James proposed marriage between Princess Mary and either Prince Louis or Prince Charles. Queen Mary of Scotland meanwhile, hoped for her daughter to marry into Portugal, Austria or Spain. But the French Princes were better than the stupid English Prince of Wales.
Ah, there it is. The start of the Wooing. Henry will be pissed when he finds out Eddie's been dumped by wee Mary.
10th of October, 1537: Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret are brought back to court to be paraded in front of the ambassadors, who were told:
“Vie for their hands and win the most beautiful Princesses of Europe.”
When no one seemed to be interested, Henry raged and said that the richest Prince in all of Europe would be too poor for the two Princesses. But then the Danish ambassador approached the King about a match between Prince Frederick of Denmark and Elizabeth Tudor while the Swedish ambassador asked for a match between Elizabeth and Prince Eric of Sweden. No one asked for Margaret.
Poor Margaret. But, oh my, Elizabeth seems popular.
12th of October, 1537: Queen Mary of England sends for a playwright by the name of Micheal Small to write a production for the King. While initially Mary wanted to have ‘The King, The Queen and The Whore’ turned into a play but recognised that that was not a good idea for staying in the King’s good graces. So she instead asked for an original play. The working title was ‘The Faithful King’.
Queen Mary pulling the strings so the public will side with her in the affair? Seems very Machiavellian to me.
Also, can you please give us the line of succession to the current ruling houses?