william iii

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...

So what if, during the union between England and the Netherlands under William III, the decision was made to merge the East India Companies of both states? They were each other's first and foremost rivals and together they could pretty much monopolize the East India trade, forcing the Danish...

January 8th, 1681 Amsterdam To say that the birth of Prince Frederick was miraculous was right. After several miscarriages by Princess Mary the years prior. Named Frederick after his father William's grandfather, the great elector of Prussia; James after his grandfather; and William after his...

I’n fascinated with the role of the queen regnant and my second favourite Mary II slots nicely into an alternative timeline. She kept a correspondence with a female in her household that bordered on lesbianism and she said (pretty sure this is a quote) ‘though I have played the whore a little...

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...

So while reading King over the Water by Alice Shields and Andrew Lang, I came across a very interesting passage. Twice, in 1697 and apparently in 1700/1701, William III offered to adopt his brother-in-law the Prince of Wales as his heir, in exchange for undisturbed possession of the throne...