The Tudor in Green: A History of Monarchical Ireland

No offense, but Catherine of Aragon being pregnant is pretty unlikely IMHO, not necessarily impossible, since legally the theory goes that there is such a thing as a fertile octagenarian. But the woman hasn't borne a child in +-20 years, and suddenly she's got a bun in the oven. At her age (around 51)? Something tells me that there's gonna be a lot of likening of Catherine to St. Elizabeth (mother of St. John the Baptist).

Worse than that', he has Anne Boleyn actually committing incest with George before her marriage to Henry (in which case it would lead only to George's execution, but in any case there isn't a historian I know of that believes it really happened IRL); Fitzroy marrying before it was legally possible for him to do so (fourteen was the minimum marriage age for boys at this point); Clement throwing away his niece on a bastard he hardly knew for no advantage at all (I mean, come on); Katherine of Aragon giving birth 15 years after she entered menopause; and strangest all, Henry VIII "never becoming Protestant", as if this was a huge POD.

Henry VIII was never Protestant for a moment of his life. Not for a moment.
 
It's the normallest thing for TLs to have problems. Especially first ones. My first TL was such a horror that I had to give up.

But, even conquests with attached royalty have all been treated the same bad way. So, won't the Irish have to get through centuries of colonial oppression before getting free? And so why want anything but the king chosen at swordpoint and totally Republican like Iraq that had the same system? Or Ireland and most of the Americas.
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Is anyone else confused? Or is it just me?

You pointed out that Harry and Jane Seymour neber hook up, so how does her younger brother jump into the limelight. (AFAIK the Seymours capitalized on Jane's memory as the "true wife" after she died).

Secondly, Karl V abdicates (not impossible, he did it OTL, although he CAN'T abdicate the Castilian throne (only the guardianship thereof) while his mad mother's alive) and just bypasses the fact that he has an 18 yo son for Spain and a brother the electors swore up and down to accept as his successor to the purple. Unless Ferdinand's dead with all his sons, why is the duke of Bavaria (who's not even an elector yet) his successor?

Mary of Hungary rebels? Why? What for? She's a childless widow with nothing to gain by biting the hand thatfeeds her (Karl V).

Some back story explaining what's going on behind the scenes will be nice.
 
Yeah I agree with JonasResende, the Habsburgs weren't only convinced Catholics they also were loyal to their house.
Mary won't betray her brother and whatever quarrels Charles and Ferdinand had towards the end of the reign of Charles, they were both determined to keep things within their dynasty.

Not to mention that giving away Flanders by the Burgundian Netherlands is like giving away a crown jewel. In many ways France and England were more dangerous for the Low Countries than Austria or Spain. This also showed after the OTL establishment of the Dutch Republic.
 
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