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Posting this since there seems to be an interest in Henry VIII dying/who Mary marries etc, so I figure why not:

WI Margaret Tudor gives birth to a son instead of a daughter at Harbottle Castle in November 1515, the boy's named Robert. Things in England run more or less on schedule, Katherine of Aragon births a daughter, named Mary in 1516, but by the time she hits menopause still no son for Henry.

Where do things go from here? Henry still probably tears the country apart if he can't get a divorce from his agéd wife. What happens to young Angus? Margaret Douglas was placed in the English succession ahead of her Stewart half-brother/niece AFAIK, but would anyone agree to Henry doing the same with a Scots' lord? Sure, the boy's born in England, but he's for all intents and purposes a foreigner with regard to his title, his surname, etc. How would Henry deal with his nephew? And would this boy's existence keep his parents' marriage together?
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