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The Pale de Calais was for over a century England's last continental possession until it was lost in 1558 to France. So what if Calais continued to be held by England? Lets say cooler head prevails and Mary I doesn't declare war on France in support of her husband Philip. How would this change history? And more importantly how long would England be able to hold the Pale de Calais? Would it be lost in Elizabeth's reign? Would it last into James I & VI and the House of Stuart? The English Civil War, Restoration and Glorious Revolution? Could it last into the Napoleonic or even into the Modern day?