hey, all. i decided to get extra opinions from a directly history-oriented message board that i was part of long before i joined AH.com concerning the questions about a continued Tudor dynasty that i brought up here. one thing that came up is that, going on the assumption that Elizabeth I has a son out of wedlock, there would be lots of objections to his rule because he would be illegitimate and only be confirmed and brought to the public's attention on Elizabeth's deathbed. the Stuarts, iirc, were the default successors, and maybe Elizabeth I would make that promise to them before she gets pregnant.
anyway, since its entirely possible that the Stuarts would feel like the throne was stolen from them by the new Tudor king and may embark on what is essentially a second War of the Roses, though it may go down as TTL's version of the English Civil War, with the Tudors and the Stuarts replacing the Royalists and Parliamentarians. its also entirely possible that Oliver Cromwell may be involved somewhere ITTL, or an approximation of him because one possibility arose that Henry VIII was interested in Cromwell's mother IOTL (iirc), so TTL's version of Cromwell could very well be aligned to the Tudors if such a man exists