The Gunpowder Plot succeeds

What if Guy Fawkes had succeeded in blowing up Parliament and killing the King? Would there have been a Catholic restoration? What would be the long term consequences?
 
This has been discussed a number of times on the board, and there are currently two ongoing timelines about successful Gunpowder Plots.

The consensus view is that a Catholic restoration is ASB: England is firmly Protestant by 1605, and the plotters were disconnected with most of England's Catholic minority (who for the most part wanted simply to be left alone and hated the plotters for stirring up trouble).

Most people expect nasty reprisals against Catholics, and most people expect the plotters to fail to capture or kill Prince Charles (who would then succeed to the throne with a Protestant regency).

Timelines:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=274532
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=267529

Discussions:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=218545
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=207983
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=173734
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=173380
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=168363
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=161648
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=139980
 
I was going to one, which I'm going to pick up after I get done with the first part of my major TL/Story.
 
Long term consequences include youngins not looking up to V as some kind of freedom-fighting rebel because Guy Fawkes ended up being a mass murderer as he had intended in addition to fighting those who oppressed him and his.

Or maybe they still would. Those V masks and the ideas behind it seemed to catch on a lot.
 
Long term consequences include youngins not looking up to V as some kind of freedom-fighting rebel because Guy Fawkes ended up being a mass murderer as he had intended in addition to fighting those who oppressed him and his.

Or maybe they still would. Those V masks and the ideas behind it seemed to catch on a lot.

depends all on the final outcome and attitudes of the TL's modern world.

Like Thande's quote on him: "He was the only man to enter Parliament with honest intentions."
 
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