WI: Anne Boleyn had died during the "sweating sickness"

What if Anne Boleyn had died during the "sweating sickness" epidemic that swept most of England (and then Europe) during the attempts of Henry VIII to divorce Queen Katherine of Aragon?
Would he have just hopped onto another mistress and the matter of divorce disappate?...Would England have still had a Protestant reformation?..What would have happened then when Mary I took the throne with no other legitamate heirs?...

thoughts?...
 
When Mary 1 dies the parliament chooses Mary Stuart, queen of Scotts(that was their plan OTL with Elizabeth around according to the wikisite i read 30 mins ago). UK formed 200 years earlier?
 
A lot depends on when exactly Anne dies. When did the sweating sickness epidemic happen? If it's too late in the divorce process, then Henry has already forced the submission of the bishops and had Parliament pass statutes denying the Pope's authority; I'm not sure he can go back on the split with Rome at that point, or that he would want to. And he still needs a son, which took priority over everything else in Henry's mind.

If it happens earlier, Henry might stay married to Catherine (maybe he'll interpret God striking down Anne as a sign), but that doesn't necessarily mean Mary's going to inherit. As long as Catherine predeceases Henry (assuming he doesn't try to divorce her anyway), he'll re-marry and do what he can to get a son; he managed it IOTL with Jane Seymour, so he might pull it off ITTL as well. Hell, he might still marry Jane Seymour once Catherine is gone.

EDIT: and since Jane Seymour was probably a Catholic, we might end up with a Catholic Edward VI out of all this.
 
A lot depends on when exactly Anne dies. When did the sweating sickness epidemic happen?

She got the disease in the second half of June 1528. By that time Henry had already sent ambassadors to the Pope in order to ask the annulment of his marriage.
 
A lot depends on when exactly Anne dies. When did the sweating sickness epidemic happen? If it's too late in the divorce process, then Henry has already forced the submission of the bishops and had Parliament pass statutes denying the Pope's authority; I'm not sure he can go back on the split with Rome at that point, or that he would want to. And he still needs a son, which took priority over everything else in Henry's mind.

If it happens earlier, Henry might stay married to Catherine (maybe he'll interpret God striking down Anne as a sign), but that doesn't necessarily mean Mary's going to inherit. As long as Catherine predeceases Henry (assuming he doesn't try to divorce her anyway), he'll re-marry and do what he can to get a son; he managed it IOTL with Jane Seymour, so he might pull it off ITTL as well. Hell, he might still marry Jane Seymour once Catherine is gone.

EDIT: and since Jane Seymour was probably a Catholic, we might end up with a Catholic Edward VI out of all this.

she caught it around 1528

also , although jane seymour was a maid of honour of queen katherine, henry never took interest in ehr until he got rid of anne really (1536), so its very unlikly shed have interested him
 
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She got the disease in the second half of June 1528. By that time Henry had already sent ambassadors to the Pope in order to ask the annulment of his marriage.

In that case, Henry would probably go ahead with the divorce; by then I think his mind was made up that his marriage to Catherine was cursed, and he'd get infatuated with some other woman soon enough.
 
In that case, Henry would probably go ahead with the divorce; by then I think his mind was made up that his marriage to Catherine was cursed, and he'd get infatuated with some other woman soon enough.

Doesn't it really come down to the temprament and religious views of this other woman...

If she is Catholic even one with more reformed views, she many not harry henri to divorce Katherine the way Anne did.

And let's face it if Anne is dead when his emmissaries get back from the Pope... and he doesn't have prospect in sight yet...then he may just reconcile himself...at least for the time being. Katherine may prevail a few more years as well If Henry allows his eyes wander , as long as none of them are out to usurp her position.
 
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