What if Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII's first child, a girl, had survived?

Would she marry the Holy Roman Emperor? I see her being betrothed to him, but since she's elder than her sister, and one of the reasons Charles didn't marry Mary was that he couldn't wait that long for an heir, could he actually marry her instead of Isabella of Portugal? If she does marry him, maybe Henry doesn't split from the church, especially if his daughter produces an heir? And, if he does split from the church, I can see Charles being more fervent to protect his cousin and wife's legitimacy and honour.

And possible names? Elizabeth? Isabella (Isabel)? Catherine?
 
I would have thought that Mary would have been her name.

Henry wanted a boy and I suspect that things would have gone in a similar path had Catherine not supplied a male heir. That said there is speculation that if Catherine had been sucessful with her first child then the pressure would have been off her and subsiquent pregnancies may have been more viable as well.

As Henry was after a boy he would not want a foreign power with a claim to the throne so much as OTL Mary was left unmarried I suspect this child would be as well.
 
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