WI- Lady Margaret Beaufort had died young?

She nearly lost her own life as a new widow at 13 when she bore her only child Henry Tudor and would never grow an inch taller as well as being rendered barren despite marrying twice more. She would spend the next 28 years channeling her energies by hook or crook to transform her son from being the barely acknowledged half-nephew of a soon-to-be deposed king to being king himself despite the large number of more genealogically suitable folks qualified to rule. Had she died at any time from his birth to his adulthood, is it possible that Henry Tudor would have been anything more than a mercenary to whoever gained the throne if he survived infancy and childhood at all?
 
Depends when Margaret dies but if it after the accession of Edward IV then the young Henry is a rich and valuable asset and his wardship might have gone to someone other than the earl of Pembroke - in which case he probably gets a pro-York marriage at some point in the late 1460s - even if his wardship goes to the Herberts as in OTL - then an early betrothal might still be likely. In which case come the readaption of Henry VII there might be a chance he is not handed over to his uncle's custody and an eventual decade and a bit of exile. His candidacy for the throne was really only in the imagination of a handful of people in the 1470s
 
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