tudor

Point of Divergence ... One of the most toxic things in the world during ancient times was the cosmetics that were used by women to put on their face. For example, white lead was used to whiten the face, giving someone the appearance of youth, but also would being eating away at their skin...

Point of Divergence .... After Jane Seymour's death, Henry the VIII remained a bachelor for a couple of years before he was convinced by his council that he needed to consider marriage again. He cast his net for potential brides, and one of them was Christina of Denmark. At the time Christina...

A Son of Aragon- Henry VIII's Catholic Heir Hello all. This will be my new timeline. After returning to the site and in the process of wrapping up Disaster at Leuthen I will now be beginning a new journey. One where we will revisit the chaos and opportunities of early Reformation Europe. We...

If Henry VIII had died in late 1511 or early 1512, is it possible that he would have named his younger sister, Mary Tudor, as his heir, if he had lived long enough to write such a will? His older sister, Margaret, is Queen of Scots and the rightful heir, but later Henry would put Mary’s heirs...

On the day of Henry VII's death, 21st April 1509, the throne passed smoothly to his oldest living son, Henry VIII. What happens in a world where Arthur is the only son of Henry VII with OTL Henry VIII dying before 1502 or being born female, Henrietta? With his wife, Elizabeth of York, daughter...

If Henry VII's son had lived long enough to produce a boy (lets call him George) with Ursula Pole in say 1520 and dies before producing a second child. How would the young Duke of York and Somerset be seen by the court? Would Henry marry him to his daughter? Would this boy's birth save the Pole...

I think Margaret Douglas can be the replacement bride of Mary Tudor in the betrothal of Francis III of Brittany and Mary Tudor because Mary Tudor is third in line, this would mean a possible French-Scottish war for England if Mary and Elizabeth die without issue.

This is totally AU but if Henry had 3+ children and betrothed them while they were in childhood (I.e while he was alive), who do you think he would marry them off too? As in the best choices (strongest allies, etc) obviously considering his break from the Catholic Church! Child 1 - Female...

As title says, Cat fell ill and dies in January/February 1532, before Henry VIII divorced her. He is now free to marry Anne Boleyn, but would he? Without breaking with Rome he has bigger choice of possible bribes so he would not waste himself in marriage with woman of lower status. On the other...

Say that Mary, Queen of Scots had begat a son by François II of France around July of 1560, and then been widowed per OTL later that December. We'll refer to the son as Henrii III (christened: Henrii James). As the queen mother of France, would she likely consider remarriage? Any child she bore...

It was late April 1536 and Queen Anne was finally well enough, and able to find the time, to take a stroll in the gardens with her brother’s wife, Jane Rochford, with only a couple of noble ladies following them at a distance. She’d suffered a bit of illness after her miscarriage in January...

Edward Courtenay, son of the earl of Devon and Edward IV’s (second) youngest daughter, Katherine, was seen by many as a domestic alternative to a match with the king of Spain for Mary I. A month after her coronation, a parliamentary delegation lectured the newly crowned queen at length as to why...

From "Morocco and Atlantic History," by James A.O.C. Brown: Thoughts? Could Al-Mansur and Elizabeth (or James I) really have managed? What would be the repercussions of such a monumental POD?

Something I've noticed on the board is that whenever the topic of Elizabeth I marrying a Habsburg comes up, the options are usually 1) D. Felipe II of Spain or 2) Archduke Karl of Inner Austria. In reality, there were several other candidates in the offing for Elizabeth's hand during her...

In 1504, Henry VII got the dispensation he wanted allowing Katherine to wed Henry. But when Henry came of age to marry, in 1505, the king had his son disavow the betrothal (privately) - apparently to keep his (H7) options open AND keep her dowry. What if they had wed when they should have?

A Tudor POD I've thought about... Henry VIII, everyone's favourite royal egomaniac, loved taking part directly in jousting events. During his life, he suffered two serious incidents of injury while jousting, the first in 1524 and the second in 1536. The latter event seems to be more famous...

Fruit of the Pomegranate - A Tudor Timeline This was entirely random, and I don't really know what came into my head, but then I refused to let it go. Just a tiny prologue for now, as I don't exactly have my books with me at the moment. ___________________ Fruit of the Pomegranate - A Tudor...

An idea that I've had in my head for some time, which has refused to let go. (And I've no doubt my fans--all six of them--are pulling their hair and saying 'Another one, Space Oddity?' But I must go where my muse takes me on these matters. Sorry.) I'll open with a prologue, which is short, to...