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IDK if anyone has asked this before but here goes. From 1507 to 1514 Princess Mary Tudor (daughter of Henry VII and sister of Henry VIII) was betrothed to the future Emperor Charles V. In fact the marriage was scheduled to happen in May 1514 before Henry VIII, angry at what he considered duplicity on the part of Charles's grandfathers Ferdinand of Aragon and Emperor Maximilian, broke the betrothal and instead married his sister off to the widowed King Louis XII of France. Mary would go on to marry Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. So what if the marriage went ahead and Mary became the consort to the most powerful man in Christendom? How would this effect the King's "Great Matter"? How would the English succession turn out with the Habsburgs having a claim to the throne? Would the future Queen Mary's aunt being the Empress help or hurt her plans to escape England? Please discuss!
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