During the reign of King Edward VI, his Catholic older sister Mary made repeated, and futile attempts to flee to the Continent to live in exile with her cousin Emperor Charles V, so she could at least maintain her Catholicism. However, Edward refused to let her go each time. What if Mary had successfully "escaped" but then died soon after arriving on the Continent, making Elizabeth last heir to the Tudor dynasty. When Edward dies as in OTL, Elizabeth becomes Queen in 1553 of a strongly Protestant country, dominated by the increasingly radical Archbishop Cramner. How does England develop?