What if the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded??? See, Parliament was supposed to have met in October of 1605, but they postponed it because there was plague in London. By November, however, not only had one of the conspirators lost his nerve & fessed up, but also the gunpowder itself had sat in a damp spot too long & probably wouldn't have blown up anyway when Guy Fawkes set the torch to it.
BUT if there had not been plague & Parliament had met while the gunpowder still packed a punch & before Monteagle got cold feet & blew the whistle on it, James I, his wife Anne, & their eldest son Henry conceivably could have all been killed then. Charles I would have been a mere 4 years old at the time, coming to the throne 20 years ahead of schedule. According to the plot, he & his sister Elizabeth were to be controlled by the Catholic elite involved in the plot. That may or may not have happened, because the Catholic response to attempted regicide failed to producethe rising the plotters had hoped for.
Just imagine the possibilities here! Charles I as a Catholic.....or not? Charles I with a regent? Charles I maybe growing up a lil more cautiously & not so arrogant about the divine right of kings? Any opinions?
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