This is the first of a long, tedious series of posts speculating about how things might have come out, had history taken a different turn. Hang on to your hats!
What if the English, under the leadership of Henry V on that fateful St. Crispin’s Day in 1514, had defeated the French at Agincourt?
Oh, wait, they did,
Never mind.
Not Henry V of England
Photo credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_V_Boynton_arms_crossed.jpg
Omniop 
You rascal! What if this had been an Amazon e-book without the opportunity to Click and Look Inside? And what if I’d taken it on a round-the-world cruise to relieve the tedium? I’d still be on the gang plank and done!
(to be tagged under speculative comments)
Ha! What if I were the King of Moldavia? What if Napoleon had been attacked by flying pigs? What if???
So you do have a series in the works. That’s okay, then. 😉
Darn! Was looking forward to the forward. Isn’t that from Shakespeare?
Darn! Blast! My other comment that appears to be deleted said something or other about looking forward to the forward and also made a reference to Shakespeare. Wasn’t it?
Don’t look back. Or if you’re driving in Illinois, don’t look black…
Didn’t see it. Must have taken one of those Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxies’ diversions and landed in somebody’s cereal…erm, serial.
Patience, my dears. WP makes me approve some comments, but not others, and I don’t always see them in a timely manner. Don’t ask why.
Is that where the expression highbrow originated?
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The dude in the not-Henry shot?
Sorry…. I’m still rummy from my long sojourn.
Ha!