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What if ancient pagan tribal Celtic males never invented tartan, plaid, and the kilt? It's obvious that this will affect the history of private highschool female student uniforms’ lower body clothes GREATLY because this means that tartan, plaid, kilts, and the folded pleated skirts inspired by...

Parr being Henry's last wife, and the one to which he died married, what if she had borne him a daughter? Despite the Elizabeth-Mary-Anne obsession of the period, let us call her Eleanor. She will presumably be raised Protestant, and be fully legitimate, as Henry had no severe grievances with...

I am assuming for the sake of this thought experiment that Henry's moral compass ends up being a lot like ours, rather than his historical one which gained him his infamy. We could have different PoDs, since the earlier scenarios would butterfly the troubles that would occur later. For one from...

It's time for the long awaited (hopefully) rewrite of my original TL, Kingdom-Building: A Valois-Bourgogne TL. The first chapter will be posted soon.

How did the noble houses of England extract wealth from their holdings? What sort of 'bureaucracy' existed within these noble houses to manage their wealth? Which houses seemed to most effectively leverage what they owned? From an althistory perspective, what sort of 'bookkeeping' or...

One of the most popular alternative history scenarios is Margaret, Maid of Norway surviving, marrying Edward II, therefore having the union of the crowns occur far, far earlier. This also means, however, that Edward II does not marry Philippa of Hainault, averting the Hundred Years War, and the...

Arthur I of Brittany making homage to Philip II of France Elvira of Sicily and her mother would go to the domains of Arthur I of Brittany in 1199 after going to France as she had remembered the treaty where in a Sicilian Princess was promised to Arthur I of Brittany and secured a betrothal with...

The city of London in the 15th century Let's say Henry V lives in 1422 and is able to win the Hundred Years' War sometime between 1425 and 1428, Charles VII is captured, Joan of Arc continues her life as a simple peasant in Bar, and the Plantagenets manage to establish themselves as Kings of...

On 1145, Louis VII would decide not to do a crusade unless he has a male heir and focused on siring a male heir before he would join the crusade which is known in history as the Second Crusade, what Louis would do instead is to suggest Innocent II to annul the marriage of Constance of France and...

The Letter It was a crisp autumn evening. The little lorry rattled over the tiny railway crossing and into the courtyard. Out stepped two men, one short and fat, the other long and thin. They strode out towards the farmhouse, dropped a letter into the slot, and rang the doorbell. Ding-dong...

I have seen many threads talk about the implications of Catherine of Aragon dying along with Arthur, Prince of Wales or after the birth of Mary Tudor, but I haven't seen many that portray her death in 1511. In this TL, I speculate she'd die shortly after giving birth to Henry Tudor, Duke of...

On 1189, on the death of Henry II, he would be succeeded by his grandson, William III of England, the son of Henry the Young King and Margaret, Queen of Hungary, he is 12 years old at this time, he needed three years to reach his majority. Richard of England is made as regent and freed his...

Lets say in 1454, Henry and Margaret have a daughter named Catherine of England, a year after the birth of their first child, Edward of Lancaster. Can Catherine be married off for an alliance to ensure that the Lancaster's remain on the throne of England? (Wild-card for Edward IV who will not...

Since starting my account a few weeks I have, in between school and course work, thinking of what to write first. My main idea has been a timeline involving a POD with an altered Battle of Poitiers in which the Dauphins Charles (OTL Charles V) and Louis, and John (of Berry), as well as the...

Battle of Hastings, 16 October, 1066, Harold Godwinson, Rightful King of England, gazes on the scene before him: the ships of William of Normandy burning, his army scattered and William Dead, slain by an arrow. The battle of two days ago had lasted for over seven hours until the English...

In OTL, Catherine of Braganza, Queen Consort of England was said to have miscarried three times at the very least, and the only surviving legitimate children Charles ever had were with his many mistresses. Thus after his death, Charles's younger brother, James Stuart, Duke of York succeeded him...

In OTL, Mary Stuart was born the daughter of James V of Scotland and Marie d'Guise on the 8th December 1542. She would become Queen Regnant of Scotland at six days old, and would marry four times, though notably to her first husband, Francis II of France, whom was one of the driving factors in...

On 1128, Margaret of Clermont would give birth to a daughter named Adelaide of Flanders, her daughter with Charles I of Flanders, she is a granddaughter of Canute IV and a claimant to Denmark and Flanders, she is an attractive heiress and she would rival Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Queen of France...

Let's start with a point of divergence. We will say that either the Augustine mission sent to preach amongst the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms by Pope Gregory The Great either fails miserably within a few short years, or is never called at all. Instead the Anglo-Saxons remain largely pagan. Perhaps...

On 1186, after learning that Ida, Countess of Boulogne is widowed twice, Henry II would want his youngest son to marry Ida, Countess of Boulogne in order to give England closer ties with the county of Boulogne, the marriage would have angered the King of France, Philip II but the King of France...