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Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
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The Emperor Who Dropped Mary Tudor For a Better Dowry (And Changed History Forever)

21 min•22 juni 2026

In 1525, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V broke off his engagement to the young Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, and married his cousin Isabella of Portugal instead. The reason? Isabella came with a dowry of 900,000 ducats, and Charles needed the money more than he needed the alliance.

That one financial decision may have changed everything.

In this alternate history, we ask: what if Charles had waited and married Mary? What happens to the English Reformation? To Catherine of Aragon? To Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and the Spanish Armada?

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