WI Henry, Duke of Cornwall lived

What if Henry, Duke of Cornwall (1 Jan. 1511) survived, but died of sweating sickness at age 17 in 1528? Lets have minimal butterflies so a Princess Mary is also born in 1516. How would having a son affect Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon? Who would young Prince Hal marry and when? Catherine of Austria? Charlotte of Valois? Would Hal have any children before he dies? Would Henry try to get an annulment after his son dies? Who would Mary marry? Francis III, Duke of Brittany? Louis, Duke of Beja?
 
Given that both his uncle and father were engaged and married to his mother at an early age one can assume that the same would hold true for Henry Jnr.

If he had a male child then I can see Henry Snr staying married to Catherine, if he didn't then history will be fairly similar to OTL, except everything happened a couple of years later.
 
Henry might decide to marry Hal to another princess completely. AFAIR, there were plans to marry Fitzroy to Caterina de' Medici, Maria de Viseu (daughter of Manuel I of Portugal and Henry's betrothed, Eleanor of Austria), Christine of Denmark, as well as either Charlotte or Louise de Valois.

So, that said, Hal might get hooked up with one of them. Or, there are various "neutral" (by which I mean neither French nor Habsburg) princesses - Isabella of Poland, queen of Hungary; or perhaps the daughter of a tinpoint German or Italian prince. I think Lucrezia Borgia's youngest daughter was still drifting around.

And if Henry decides to go a la Francais for the queen, Renée de France, duchesse de Ferrara might be a better candidate for Hal than Louise or Charlotte.

And who knows, maybe Mademoiselle Boleyn still bewitches the English court, only this time Hal instead of his father:eek:

And if Hal marries Anne (if we take her latter birth-date of 1507) for the same reason his father did OTL (he was besotted), and Anne has a LITTLE more luck carrying a healthy boy to term she'ss get to a) keep her head, and b) enjoy playing the game of politics as the king's mommy when Henry kicks.:D
 
Isabella of Poland might count as a pro-Hapsburg bride, given her mother's Italian properties and claims.

The threat of a British attempt at restoring Breton independence would probably rule Renée de Valois out as well.
 
It's all but certain that Anne Boleyn was born in the 1499-1502 period; 1507 is now considered almost impossible.

If Henry wanted to marry him to an English girl, there was a perfect choice already at court. She was around the same age as Hal, she grew up at court and was well liked by both Henry and Katherine (her mother was a lady-in-waiting to the Queen and her father had been a close friend of the King before his early death), she was an intelligent, high-minded, virtuous girl, and she was a descendant of Edward III. Her name: Catherine Parr.
 
IMHO, for interests sake, Caterina de' Medici or Isabella Jagiellon would make the most interesting queens (not just because of their regencies OTL) but for their sheer genetic makeup. From what I understand, neither came from a family that had previously intermarried with the Tudors OR the Plantagenets. Unfortunate, they're both a bit young for Hal to marry and start making beautiful half-Polish or half-banker babies with:p

That said, the POD for allowing Hal to survive would be Feb 1511, therefore, an interesting princess hitherto unmentioned might make her appearance.

Margaret Tudor birthed two daughters (either stillborn or died shortly after birth) in 1508 and 1512 respectively. And given that excepting James V, her sons all died young, if the younger of those two princesses were to survive, there might've been a very real possibility of a Scots Queen if James V had been stillborn or died without issue. Therefore, Henry might see an EARLIER union by marrying Hal to the little queen of Scots - much like he tried to do with Edward VI and Mary, Queen of Scots - except here it's likely to be somewhat more successful for 2 reasons:

1) The queen of Scots is his sister - as well as leader of the English party at court.
2) Both Hal and this ATL Mary/Margaret are still of the same religion (unlike Edward who was Protestant while Mary, Q of Scots was Catholic with a vehemently Catholic maternal family).
 
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