house of stuart

The most recent idea that entered my head as of late involves keeping Scotland independent from England and making it a decent power in its own right. For this to happen, the accession of James VI (I) to the English throne in 1603 absolutely has to be avoided. Since Elizabeth I would probably...

According to most Tudor Historians, Henry VIII attempted to lay the groundwork for an early Union of the Crowns (which happened many years later, under James VI and I), in 1543, by betrothing his son Edward to Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. Now, as we all know, the betrothal fell through just...

POD is Elizabeth Tudor being another of Anne Boleyn's miscarriages, with Mary Tudor living long enough to outlive Francis II of France and having a son with Philip II, and Mary Stuart marrying many times like her grandmother's brother, Henry VIII...(note: it would be very helpful if some matches...

James VI/I of Scotland-England's eldest son died at age 18, leaving the crown to Charles, whose tyrannical nature and questionable religious and financial reforms were major causes of the English civil war. according to Wikipedia, in addition to being quite bright and popular, he was a very...

She had 17 of them OTL but none survived to succeed her, what if all of them in this TL outlive her, marry and have issue?

Realistically speaking, how well could the Jacobites have done?

In 1460, James II of Scotland took advantage of the Wars of the Roses to besiege Roxburgh Castle, one of the last Scottish castles that still remained in English hands after the Wars of Scottish Independence. During the siege, he was standing near a cannon known as "the Lion", which exploded and...

What if Charles II of England was able to have legitimate children? How would it affect history?

For part of the 17th century, the Moroccan city of Tangier was under the control of the English. It had been owned by the Portuguese, but Charles II of England acquired the city when he married the Portuguese infanta Catherine. They gave up on the city in 1684. Here's your challenge: have the...

It seems that throughout the crises the Stuart monarchy faced, they enjoyed a wide base of support among Irish Catholics. A major expression of this was the creation of Confederate Ireland in 1641, which pledged allegiance to Charles I & Charles II against Cromwell, and later widespread Jacobite...

During the rule of Charles II, a crisis broke out when it was discover James, Duke of York (James II and VII), was a Roman Catholic. Parliament tired 3 times to remove him from the line, and put in place Charles's illegitimate – but Protestant – son, the Duke of Monmouth. However, Charles II...

Okay, so I'm working on a timeline where the Diggers seize power in Britain in the late 1790s. Here's how it goes: The Royalists win the English Civil War The Stuart regime, predictably, is extremely repressive, inefficient, and rather unpopular, fostering similar sentiments to what was seen...

OOC: This is a DBWI OOC 2: How do I delete this. I was really tired when I made it. Okay, so most people are unfamiliar with the Jacobite rising and its effects on the politics of the British Isles. Basically, what happened was that the English parliament tried to oust king James VII from his...

The idea here is simple. All the Stuarts, between the execution of Charles I in 1649 to 1659/1660, all died before they could have a chance to return to power after the death of Cromwell. (Say Charles II is killed following Worcester, etc.) What is the fate of England, Scotland and Ireland...

Hello everyone! This is a re-telling of the same idea i had published here some time ago. I decided to tell the story again, but this time, and since the original story was too much ASB, i decided to make it as a-political as possible, with no real change to OTL except that in this TL the...

Assuming A) Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester lives a year longer and sires a Protestant son B) the events leading up to and the Glorious Revolution happen roughly as OTL Who would this Duke (Charles, Henry?) marry and what results to the succession happen? What other significant butterflies can...

So when doing some research for Apollinis et Dianae I came across something very interesting. In 1694 Duke Francesco II d'Este of Modena died childless, leaving the throne to his uncle, Cardinal Rinaldo. Rinaldo renounced his cardinalate and married a German princess, thus continuing the d'Este...