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Editor says, what if the Princes in the Tower had survived? muses Robbie Taylor. Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the May 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 1485, the destruction of King Richard III at Bosworth Field leaves Henry Tudor with the largest army in England.
Young Prince Edward found alive in the TowerWhen he reaches London to take the crown for himself, he finds that his distant cousins, Edward and Richard (alive), are in fact still alive in the Tower of London. Since their "deaths" had been a rationale behind his own invasion, he would have had them killed, but his soldiers spread the news too quickly; he was forced to crown Edward instead of himself, and pledged his allegiance to the young king. Recommendation: visit Robbie Taylor's Amazon Author Page.
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~ The entire Yorkist branch of the Plantagenets would have been glad to not see Henrys VII and VIII take the crown, simply because those two wiped out their cousins with all the glee of serial killers in our timeline.
~ And of course, if Henry VIII never gets to be king, England remains Catholic, seriously changing the political dynamic of the Reformation and perhaps resulting in its failure.
~ This would change English history in ways we can't begin to imagine. At the same time, unless the Woodville/Grey clan was kept firmly in line, they'd promptly start lining up at the trough again, and that would bring us right back to the latter days of Edward IV. A lot of Richard III's support came from nobles who thought the Woodville/Greys had become latter-day Despensers and Piers Gavestons.
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