What if Henry VIII secured a heir and never formed the Church of England and remained Catholic? Will there still be an English Civil War between Royalists and Parliamentarians, and a United Kingdom?
A catholic England would likely evolve like France in religious matters, with a "Brittanian" church as the "Gallican" one.Anyone has any idea how would in this case English foreign policy be any different? Having them and France both Catholic would not matter in their relations much and they would wage wars without a doubt. Any closer relations with Spain, maybe more wars with Netherlands ?
Without the dissolution of the monasteries, the Crown would be considerably weaker, either having to scale back expensive ventures (especially the army and the navy) or having to rely even more heavily on taxation and confiscatory fines for trumped-up offenses than IOTL.
Weren't there Catholic countries that nonetheless abolished monasteries and confiscated Church property?