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Had a bit of Africa too.

I think he was made a ward of Dorset during Edward IV’s reign? Presumably that situation would persist with Edward living longer and no Richard III coup. Dorset would have some say over his marriage if so- Dorset doesn’t have any age appropriate daughters, but could probably turn up someone...

What of her brother Warwick, though?

What is the thinking here? Eldest daughter of the Catholic Monarchs on a second son seems a stretch.

Interesting Ottoman developments.

This is probably cheating and not the point of the thread, but... the Georges both catch something infectious and die, the Hanoverian claimant is little Frederick who is still on the continent, and the Jacobites and their army waltz into the power vacuum?

I don't know, John, seems like you were about to get upset.

Australia?

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Any chance losing his two eldest sons and his wife in short succession takes a bit out of Henry VII and leads to an earlier death?

Baldwin I and the Dowager Countess of Sicily?

I think the ‘Prince Arthur’ of the title and the passage you quoted is the son of King Arthur and Catherine of Aragon?

Thought the first one was dead by our POD?

Fair bit younger than her.

... Simnel's story was that he was Warwick, not Edward V/Richard of Shrewsbury? Think this has come up before- whilst the Wiki has this putative Thomas Beaufort down as 1442-1517, my newer version of Weir's book has him dying young ''before 1463.'' Reasonable to think he's off the table by...

A potential, papering-over-the-cracks compromise option would be something like a Warwick and Elizabeth of York marriage + a horrifyingly unstable regency council consisting of some combination of Stanley, Jasper, Lincoln and whoever else has some semi-plausible claim to power.

Hope everything is alright! Always found British preoccupation with the Russian threat to India fascinating.

Merry Christmas and such to you as well.

And to you.

Merry birthday and happy Christmas.