glorious revolution

Let's say that the winds don't take a turn for the worst and the Royal Navy is able to intercept William's fleet before it can land in Torbay. After a slugging match between the two fleets, the English deal enough damage that William is forced to turn back. With James' downfall forestalled, in...

Between 1674 and 1692 the then Duke of York and future James II and his wife Mary of Modena had a total of 12 children, of which only James Francis and Louise Maria survived to adulthood, which would happen however if both were luckier and all the children born of this marriage survived? King...

Let's say that Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is able to overcome his health problems in February 1685 and is alive and well for another decade or more. So instead of problematic James II, England is rules until around 1700 by relatively skilled and pragmatic monarch. But on the...

The POD is that Philippe Charles, Duke of Valois survives. He is the eldest son of the Duke of Orleans, Louis XIV's brother. His mother is Henrietta of England, daughter of Charles I. This means that if the Old Pretender dies before the death of Queen Anne in 1714, this alternate Phillippe II...

Hello all, So, yesterday was the Twelfth of July -- the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. I was wondering -- what would have happened if James II defeated William of Orange? I think it quite unlikely for James to retake England or Scotland -- he'd already been ousted by William, who had...

Asking this question to my few friends, they haven't really given me good or at least satisfactory answers as of yet, mainly as a Timeline of events - So A while ago, I was talking about Karl Emil von Hohenzollern, Electoral Prince of Brandenburg and how he was apparently planned to marry Maria...

How different history of England, British Isles and and the entire Europa would have been, had William of Orange died before even reaching english shores? Let just say that in early november 1688, his ship named Brill was destroyed in terrible shipwreck, and instead of rulling England, Scotland...

OTL Queen Mary II of England and her Prince Consort William III had no surviving children, meaning the house of Orange-Nassau remained solely a Dutch house. But what if they had produced a living heir? We'll say they name him James after her father and have him 1679, about two years into their...

What if Louis XIV intervened in the Glorious Revolution? Had it not been for William and Mary, England would not have joined the Nine Years' War, and Louis would have had a staunch Catholic ally on the English throne in James II. Would France have conquered the Dutch Republic, and brought...

On the Failed Dutch Invasion On the early morning of the 29th of October, 1688, a handful of ships set sail from the Dutch port of Hellevoetsluis, despite the adversarial winds keeping a majority of the flotilla’s would-be fleetmates in port. At the head of this small fleet sailed William of...

Recently, there has been a thread about France invading England, and someone brought up this Nine Years' War battle. So, the question is: What if admiral Tourville had decided to capitalize on his success at the Battle of Beachy Head? Would James II be restored to the throne as a result of a...

Mary II's fertility was ruined by an illness contracted while she was pregnant with her first child in 1679. The child presumably miscarried, and although there were rumors of pregnancies until 1683, her inability to carry a child to term seemed like an inverted joke of her sister's Ceres-like...