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Well, here I am, sitting in my Early modern European history course and my teacher is discussing Mary I.

Some of the points he brought up (don't know if they are entirely correct)
-England didn't want Mary to marry Phillip II of Spain
-They wanted her to marry a local lord
-Because of Mary's marriage to Phillip, England entered into Philip's war with France which lost England Calais
-On her death, Catholicism in England became associated with military defeat, foreign domination (papal and otherwise), and persecutions.

So here is my thought. Mary marries a local lord (who?) and doesn't get herself involved in Philip's war with Spain. This for the most part removes two of the big problems the English had with Catholicism at the end of Mary's reign.

Mary still dies childless, but she leaves a living catholic husband who is actualy English and not Spanish. Can he keep control of the throne? What happens to Elizabeth? How does this affect England...
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