How would history have been different if Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon had born a surviving son?

Question

How would history have been different if Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon had born a surviving son?

Answer 1

England would have stayed Catholic, like France and Spain.  These powers together might have stamped out Lutheranism and Calvinism.  England would probably be Catholic today, although the Reformation would have taken place.  The grievances against the church were just too numerous.  Protestants would still have left Europe for America in search of religious freedom.  The Catholic church would not have made the few accessions that it has, since there would have been less pressure to do so.

Answer 2

If he had died, he would have become king and his issue his inheritors which would have eradicated all descendants of British monarchy as we now know it.

Historically, who knows? You can make up what ever line you like. But since this marriage would have been Catholic and the heirs Catholic, England would have remained a Catholic country. Henry XIII would have had no need to form the Church of England. Queen Elizabeth I would never have been born.

Perhaps England and Ireland would have become Spanish

provinces.

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps... That's all.

Answer 3

Which wife produced that boy who died young?

Lot's of things would be different, when did Henry start the Church of England?

Bloody Mary wouldn't have her moment of glory.

Elizabeth wouldn't have cut the Scottish Queen's head off.

It would be cool if you could run a computer simulation to see how it turned out.

Answer 4

Yes. England would remain a Catholic nation, both Princess Mary Tudor and Princess Elizabeth, would had been married off to other foreign countries. The famous Golden Elizabethen Age would not exist. The Scottish from the House of Stuart would not have ruled England nor would the throne be passed onto a German Prince, who later became King George I of Great Britain. The current royal family would probably not be of German descent. The Act of Settlement of 1701 would not exist, and the current British line of succession would include Catholics rather than been banned from inheriting the throne. At least there will be more religious tolerance.