Who Would Be King of England Today According to Henry VIII's Will?

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[siuk]

Little tip about British names... Beauchamp is pronounced Beecham and Derby is actually Darby. Makes no sense but just the way things are.

[andrewgordon]

“Elizabeth quickly understood the threat” sums up her reign fairly well

[edra]

Henry was so damn obsessed with ensuring his lineage that his children didn't have any children of their own

[ZuzannaTS]

Useful charts - “As a side note I should make a note that the title queen of England doesn’t currently exist”
Me - “Ahh yes yes. Cause she’s dead.”
Useful Charts - “Queen Elizabeth the second is actually not the queen on England. She’s the queen of the United Kingdom”
Me - “oh.”

[craigrm]

Beatrice, Lady Kinloss was informed of this theory about the succession, and she said she "wouldn't want to be queen for all the tea in China".

[jren]

Imagine you're an unemployed lazy dude chillin' on his bed while watching this and suddenly, your name shows up as the true king of England: "I got a conquest to do fellas!"

[reverseflashes]

It is very strange to me that Henry regarded Edward so highly that he declared his own two daughters illegitimate, because he was so desperate to secure his lineage with his only male heir, but at the end, even his 15 year old son didn't follow his wishes.

And Henry made his daughters hate him and the legacy of the Tudor name so much that Mary died childless pining over a man who never loved her, because rather than keeping the Tudor name alive, she preferred to honor her mother's Spanish blood instead; and Elizabeth sacrificed her chance to marry and have children because she wanted to end the Tudors completely.

I think Elizabeth always knew James was gonna be the next monarch; and iirc, she *did* declare him her heir in one of her letters for him, but it is still very interesting to see the "what if" scenarios.

Tudor Dynasty didn't last very long compared to, say, Habsburgs or Ottomans but I feel like there is still so much we don't know about them. Big respect to all who worked to preserve history and those who are teaching us today.

And thank you very much for this video.

[PopeLando]

"Known to history as Queen Elizabeth the First." Only for the last 69 years and 50 weeks, in fact. It's actually strange to realise that for nearly 400 years she was actually known to history simply as Queen Elizabeth - just like Queen Anne and Queen Victoria.

[darrenblois]

I love these alternate scenario videos. I've suggested before, and do again, that you do one on: Who Would be King of England Today, if England had had Absolute Primogeniture since William the Conqueror? Interesting because the UK now does have absolute primogeniture. Should be an interesting chase down the genealogy trees.

[CaptainPikeachu]

Interestingly though, the current Queen Elizabeth is still a direct descendant of Mary Tudor (Henry the 8th’s sister) through her mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. So in a way, Henry the 8th’s will was technically still followed, a descendant of his sister Mary is sitting on the throne today.

[MichaelSidneyTimpson]

Here's an even freakier scenario, let's say Henry's younger sister had produced a male heir during her brief marriage to the King of France, (that or one of Henry's many attempts to have his daughter Mary wed the dauphin): we might have seen the United Kingdom of England, Ireland, and France instead. Wow, imagine how much bigger the British [sic] Empire would have been in that scenario and maybe even still existing...that kinda screws up North American history too

[BigOrangeBus]

There’s a documentary on the would-be Australian King, Michael Edward Abney-Hastings which is also interesting. He died in 2012 but after a historian did all the work to find him, he already had a family tree and knew he had royal lineage. He was a Uk ex-pat and loved living here in Australia.

[BB-qztr]

People seem to forget Edward was in fact not Henry's only son, excluding illegitimate children he had one other. The son of Catherine of Aragon: Henry Duke of Cornwall, who died a few months after being born. Edward was his only living legitimate son not his only son nor his only legitimate son.

[ninjawarrior]

How about a chart on how Henry VIII is related to all his wives outside of marriage?

[astridberwouts]

Fun fact: William Child-Villiers is the father of Amelie Child-Villiers, who plays Galadriel as a child in Rings of Power

[lightyagami]

I love these alternate succession videos. You end up learning about many of the minor nobles in british history that aren't talked about enough.

[cloudestarscape]

Fun fact from someone studying the Tudors at A-Level, Lady Jane Grey wasn’t executed after her arrest. It was only when a rebellion sparked up during Mary’s reign (Wyatt’s Rebellion in 1554, happened due to Mary’s insistence on marrying Phillip of Spain (who referred to her as an aunt). People in England didn’t particularly like that. The rebellion got really close to London, actually.) that demanded to put Jane back on the throne. So, her and her husband were executed to remove any threat then. This was about a year after she came to the throne, so yeah!

[deborahkelly]

Thank you for sharing your research with us. I know you worked hard putting this presentation together. I love British History. My husband taught genealogy at the University as sort of a extra class for those that were interested. He was on the faculty and was the University Bibliographer for the library system. His under grad was in European history . He was working on his own genealogy when he had his first round of cancer at thirty two . Sadly he never finished his own genealogy. He died at 43 of brain cancer. We had two young children. I really do enjoy European History and read a lot of literature on the history of Europe

[thomasdixon]

I love the alternative succession charts, could you do some other countries as well?

[wesleyhunt]

15:00 "There is no Santa Claus. There is no Easter Bunny. And there is no Queen of England."