Guy Fawkes and fellow conspirators planning the gunpowder plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605, so what if they has succeded? How do you think it would change history if they had been successful?
If I am not mistaken, Prince Henry of Wales, was to attend the opening of parliament, along side his father, if this is so, than the death toll will include King and heir. Prince Charles, Duke of York and Albany, Marquess of Ormonde, Earl of Ross and Lord Ardmannoch is only 4, so a regency would last for 12 years at least.Prince Henry becomes King Henry IX at age 11; a good candidate for a regent would be the Duke of Richmond. Assuming he makes it to adulthood unlike OTL he may be charismatic and talented enough to avert the Civil War depending on how willing he would be to listen to Parliament: do I sense a TL in the works?
If I am not mistaken, Prince Henry of Wales, was to attend the opening of parliament, along side his father, if this is so, than the death toll will include King and heir. Prince Charles, Duke of York and Albany, Marquess of Ormonde, Earl of Ross and Lord Ardmannoch is only 4, so a regency would last for 12 years at least.
As for Duke of Richmond - Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox was not given the title of DoR until 1623, where as his nephew, James Stewart, 4th Duke of Lennox would not gain the title of DoR until 1624. Both of whom lack the strength and support of English Parliament.
Maybe some one like:
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (Secretary of State, James I's leading minister)
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (Lord High Admiral)
Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton (Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports)
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (Lord Treasurer)
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire
Or simply having a council rather than a single ruler to make it fair.
Whoops.
Well, if Charles is king, and he's still an absolutist Arminian, then this could easily lead to an earlier English Civil War. Heck, it may very well result in a permanent Commonwealth.
By my understanding, the plot nearly DID succeed. Guy's original excuse to what or why he was storing under the house of Parliament was bought, it was only James VI/Cecil's paranoia that made them check again. James' paranoia was based on his own father's death, ICR why Cecil was paranoid.
In such a scenario where the Catholics loose (which I'm putting strong money on the catholics loosing) Would they be able to flee across the Atlantic. In shot Catholic thirteen colonies? Another thing to consider is that if France and Spain are intervening, how much would this hurt their efforts in intervineing in the 30 years war?