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'Henry Tudor' was born in 1534 to Henry VIII of England and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. He was her third born child who lived and died on the same day. He is said to have been born a few weeks too early. He died several hours after being born.
The cause of death is unknown, though possibly related to Henry VIII's alleged syphilis. This is also considered a reason for why so many of his children were born dead.
He was Anne's only child other than her first, Elizabeth I of England, who was alive at birth. Altogether, Anne had six pregnancies and only three, Elizabeth, Henry and an unnamed boy (probably to be called Edward), whose genders were identified. Elizabeth was Anne's only child to survive past infancy.

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The Alteration: What if Henry had survived?

The Alteration: What if Henry had survived?

Kingsley Amis wrote a book about the effects of a contested "War of the English Succession" (c 1509 CE), where Prince Arthur Tudor and Katherine of Aragon have a son, "Stephen II", which leads Henry VIII to try to usurp his nephew's throne, but which leads to a "Holy Victory" and the 'rightful' succession, as well as the ascendancy of the Catholic Church within this alternate history novel. Some of the younger characters peruse an alternate history where there was an English Reformation, but not due to the "King's Matter" of the 1530s and 1540s prompted by Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn's absence of surviving male offspring to insure safe succession (until the birth of the future Edward VI).
Instead, in its version of Phillip K.Dick's The Man in the High Castle, a "Henry IX" succeeds his father, and "England becomes altogether 'schismatic."
This may be one of Katherine of Aragon's short-lived sons, named Henry, Duke of Cornwall, or it may be Anne Boleyn's son, Henry.