A Mountain out of a Molehill: William III survives

Say that William III wasn't killed by the little gentleman in velvet in 1703, but remarries and has children. What happens?
 
This opens up the prospect of a regency, (possibly an unpopular one, depending on who Billy marries) which can't be too bad for Jacobitism.

It's just as well that William's maternal grandfather was Charles I, or his potential dynasty in this situation would have a really shit blood claim to the throne. (I.E, none) The whole reason he was King, after all, was purely that he was Mary II's hubby, let's not forget. (Parliament didn't even want to make him King regnant at first.)
 
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If Dutch Billy remarries, his children from marriage number two only succeed if/when Anne's line of descent is extinguished
 
Suppose Anne will die as well...
The war of Spanish succession will end different.
Do not know what the impact will be on the UK, probably not much different than in OTL.
For the Dutch Republic it will be a large.
He will remain Stadholder, but the Republic will be run by Patricians and a State pensioner, which means the Dutch Republic is defacto independent. However with a kind of personel union the Dutch Republic will have a strong protector. There will be also a great influence from the UK to come to a more cnetralised government which can avert the downfall of the Republic as in OTL.
 
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