What If: Tudor Queen Consort Edition

What If: Tudor Queen Consort Edition

From Tudors Dynasty & Beyond by RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson

August 23, 2026 · 55 min

About this episode

The episode explores alternate historical scenarios involving the queens of the Tudor dynasty and their potential impact on England's future.

What if one moment had gone differently for the women of the Tudor dynasty? In this episode of Tudors Dynasty , Rebecca and Amy are rewriting history once again with a new round of Tudor “What Ifs”—this time focused on the queens whose marriages, pregnancies, and choices helped determine the future of England. What if Anne of Cleves had been pregnant when Henry VIII decided he wanted their marriage annulled? Would even Henry have dared cast aside the mother of another Tudor prince? What if Katheryn Howard had fled before she could be arrested? Could she have escaped Henry’s reach—or would she simply have found herself a queen with nowhere to go? What if Jane Seymour had given birth to a daughter instead of Edward VI ? Without his long-awaited son, how quickly would Henry have searched for wife number four—and what would that have meant for the ambitious Seymour family? And what if Henry VIII had simply remained married to Katherine of Aragon ? No Anne Boleyn. No Elizabeth I. Perhaps no break with Rome as we know it. How different would the Tudor dynasty—and England itself—have become? Plus, Rebecca and Amy venture slightly beyond Henry’s wives to ask one more fascinating…

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Host: Rebecca Larson

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