Use these alternate history dots or confirm that they are too good to be true

Here are the dots <br>• “The king died and then the queen died” is a true sentence because Queen Elizabeth I died of the plague in 1565 and her brother King Edward died shortly after in 1570 (he was only 14), resulting in the thrones of England and Scotland being united under a Scottish Stewart. Elizabeth never tortures Catholics with gauntlets and boots or burns them at the stake. <br><br>• Shakespeare gets the plague in 1565 and dies, and Marlowe becomes the greatest playwright in Elizabethan English (and is very gay) <br><br>• Because Elizabeth was the “Good Queen Bess”, the English Reformation was extremely tolerant, and Protestants were guaranteed religious freedom in England, and Catholics were able to work in government again in 1600. <br><br>• With England and Scotland under a single monarch, the Borders area flourishes as a result of the constant flow of trade between the two and becomes a major centre of industry (like the Ruhr valley) and culture (like Paris or Florence). <br><br>• With Scotland and England united under a single monarch, Ireland gets the “good king” it wanted, with Charles being the first English monarch to speak on behalf of the Irish (and he doesn’t get beheaded). <br><br>• Because the Stewarts were “Good Kings”, the English Monarchy never gets overthrown and today is as powerful as the Holy Roman Emperor in the early 16th century. <br><br>• The loss of the “Virgin Queen” from history means that England does not lose the “Maiden” that “protects” it, in the same way that the land is protected by King Arthur, the people are protected by the House of Lords, and the throne is protected by the Church. <br><br>• Because the Stewarts were anti-torture, England does not lose the “Maiden” from Cecil’s use of gauntlets and boots to torture Catholics. James I is also anti-torture, and he bans the use of torture in England (especially in the Tower of London) in 1600. <br><br>• The American colonies lose their draw because they are not the last place where the English can go to escape a tyrannical and evil government. In reality, the American colonies are as empty in 1700 as they were in 1550.