Henry VIII is an English king best known for his six wives, his extreme body weight toward the end of his life and his break from the Catholic Church after he couldn't get a divorce with his wife Catherine of Aragon. However what if he never became king?
Henry VIII as many of you may know was not always first in line to become king. He had an older brother named Arthur who was supposed to be king instead of him and believe it or not, Henry was supposed to go into the church to eventually perhaps become the Archbishop of Canterbury. His brother Arthur even married Henry's first wife Catherine. Unfortunately Arthur died only a few months into his marriage with Catherine at the age of 15 in 1502. But what if this didn't happen? What if he managed to survive this mysterious illness that killed him like his wife did? This is the subject of my timeline King Arthur: Not Just of the Round Table, which we will be discussing on this thread.
Anyway, the timeline begins when Arthur survives in 1502. Since him and Catherine survived a near fatal illness, the royal court throws them a huge banquet in their honor. A little while later Arthur and Catherine have sex (now we can know for sure they consummated their marriage) and in 1504 Catherine gives birth to a baby boy named Henry after Athur's father. This Henry not Arthur's brother Henry becomes the future Henry VIII of England. Catherine manages to bear three more surviving children: Mary (b. 1507), Isabella (b. 1509) and Arthur (b. 1512). Just like Henry VIII, Arthur becomes king when Henry VII dies in 1509. Arthur is king until he dies himself in 1528 at the age of 42. He is succeeded by his son Henry VIII (again not the same in OTL) who becomes king aged 26.
Arthur's reign is different than his brother's reign in OTL. First of all, he remains a devout Catholic monarch all his life and faithful to his wife (never having a mistress). He is quiet, soft-spoken, and laid back. He is not charismatic and serious unlike Henry VIII in OTL. His reign was marked with an increasing friendship and alliance between England and Spain and the HRE. Arthur was close to his nephew by marriage Charles V and served as a father figure to him (despite being only 14 years his senior) after his real father Philip died in 1506. Charles also becomes very close to Henry VIII, Arthur's son, and the two become best friends and develop a brother like relationship with each other. Charles also marries Arthur's elder daughter Mary causing his OTL kids such as Philip II to never be born.
Henry VIII as many of you may know was not always first in line to become king. He had an older brother named Arthur who was supposed to be king instead of him and believe it or not, Henry was supposed to go into the church to eventually perhaps become the Archbishop of Canterbury. His brother Arthur even married Henry's first wife Catherine. Unfortunately Arthur died only a few months into his marriage with Catherine at the age of 15 in 1502. But what if this didn't happen? What if he managed to survive this mysterious illness that killed him like his wife did? This is the subject of my timeline King Arthur: Not Just of the Round Table, which we will be discussing on this thread.
Anyway, the timeline begins when Arthur survives in 1502. Since him and Catherine survived a near fatal illness, the royal court throws them a huge banquet in their honor. A little while later Arthur and Catherine have sex (now we can know for sure they consummated their marriage) and in 1504 Catherine gives birth to a baby boy named Henry after Athur's father. This Henry not Arthur's brother Henry becomes the future Henry VIII of England. Catherine manages to bear three more surviving children: Mary (b. 1507), Isabella (b. 1509) and Arthur (b. 1512). Just like Henry VIII, Arthur becomes king when Henry VII dies in 1509. Arthur is king until he dies himself in 1528 at the age of 42. He is succeeded by his son Henry VIII (again not the same in OTL) who becomes king aged 26.
Arthur's reign is different than his brother's reign in OTL. First of all, he remains a devout Catholic monarch all his life and faithful to his wife (never having a mistress). He is quiet, soft-spoken, and laid back. He is not charismatic and serious unlike Henry VIII in OTL. His reign was marked with an increasing friendship and alliance between England and Spain and the HRE. Arthur was close to his nephew by marriage Charles V and served as a father figure to him (despite being only 14 years his senior) after his real father Philip died in 1506. Charles also becomes very close to Henry VIII, Arthur's son, and the two become best friends and develop a brother like relationship with each other. Charles also marries Arthur's elder daughter Mary causing his OTL kids such as Philip II to never be born.
. OK a few questions 1. how does protestantism develop in Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and the Netherlands without a Protestant England? 2. Does the French and American revolutions (or a form of them) still occur? 3. Does Britain still develop is massive empire?