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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2021-03-20 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] calimac 2021-03-20 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Neither William III or Henry VII was a consort who succeeded. Both took the throne by conquest. William flatly refused to undertake the conquest if he was only to be consort, so he was just flipped up one slot in the line of succession which he was already high in anyway. And Henry didn't acquire his consort status until after he became king; in his case it was icing on the cake, a kind of peace treaty with the Yorkists.

Mary of Guise, as you note, was regent, and for Hans to follow that plan he would have had to wait until Anna had a child before offing her, and then he could get twenty years as regent. But not king.