The war about The War of the Roses

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Carol, wishing that history could be altered and Richard III restored
> to the throne, with Henry Tudor soundly and permanently defeated

I learned from Josephine Tey that Richard III was a good man and a
good king, but what would be different NOW if he had kept his throne?
The only good thing I ever hear anyone say about Henry VII (7) was
that he wrote 'Greensleeves', but without Henry VIII (8) would England
still be Catholic, with an Inquisition? 

Elizabeth I is said to have been a genius at getting her country's
economy up and growing prosperous - without her, would it be like
Spain or Italy was before the European Economic Community started
subsidizing them? How would that have affected the colonization of the
Americas - would there now be only Spanish speaking, Portuguese
speaking, French speaking countries in the Americas, or would the
Dutch colonies have grown?

Without Elizabeth I, I imagine there wouldn't have been James I, and
while he personally would be good riddance, would England and Scotland
still be separate countries, with Scotland allying with France against
England? That would have made the twentieth century's two Great Wars
rather different.