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I've seen this discussed before, but I thought I'd open a new thread for it, given I've got a new book on the Wars of the Roses which opens with the last years of Henry's reign and the early years of the Regency that followed for the infant Henry VI. The book touches briefly on the fact that it would have been very difficult to make Henry's conquests in France properly "stick", which tallies with what I've seen here: but it also makes the point that England under Henry V was probably the most powerful state in western Europe and wouldn't fall over easily.

So, the scenario to assume here is that Henry lives until somewhere around 1430-35. At the end of his reign, there'll still be a regency of a sort, but it'll be a considerably shorter one. Let's assume also that Catherine of Valois produces two more healthy children, a daughter in about 1425 and a second son in about 1428.

How does Henry's reign play out, and how does the short Regency of the 1430s work? Educate me!
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