The Spanish plan was to land a total of 50,000 troops, more from Belgium, then Spanish, after the initial landing. That was a huge force for the time. They also planned to recruit English Catholics. They thought English was majority Catholic at the time. However, Elizabeth I was popular. Because Elizabeth had Mary Queen of Scots executed, and Henry VII and Henry VIII had had most people with Plantagenet claims to the throne executed, the Spanish plan was to put a Catholic European with Plantagenet descent in as a puppet king.
Japanese car companies maybe don’t know much about European history.
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“They thought English was majority Catholic at the time
They weren’t far off. The C. of E. wasn’t terribly popular 30 years after it was re-established upon Elizabeth’s coronation. When James I ascended throne in 1603, a full 15 years after the Spanish Armada defeat, there was a brief period in which James refused to enforce the penal laws against Catholics. The protestant establishment was shocked at how many Catholics started coming out of the woodwork, and quickly pushed for a new crackdown which James eventually assented. The disappointment that Catholics felt after their brief moment of emancipation was quashed is what led to the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.