I was thinking about this and was wondering what would be the consequences of Henry Tudor, later Henry VIII, dying in 1502 from the same illness which killed his older brother Arthur?
Who would of been named heir to the English throne, Margaret Tudor? Mary Tudor? Or would England not have accepted a female Monarch at this time.
Could it possibly lead to an earlier Union of the Crowns with Margaret and James IV ruling England, eventually leading to James V taking the throne?
Also with Henry VII having seized the throne in 1485 could the Wars of the Roses be renewed, with no secure male succsesion to the English throne? Could the de la Pole family have been used by Yorkists to compromise the now weak position of the Tudor dynasty
What would the effects have been on Henry VII, could the grief of sped up his demise and ended his reign a few years earlier?