So, I've been doing a lot of reading on the late Stuart period recently, and have been wondering a few things for a novel I am planning on writing.
James II and his first wife Anne Hyde, had four sons, Charles, James, Charles and Edgar, all of whom died young.
Now what I am wondering is, what might've happened had say the youngest of those sons Edgar survived? He was born in 1667, and would've been eighteen when his father came to the throne.
Would he have been raised an anglican as his sisters were? Who might he have been betrothed/ married to?
How might his survival influence his father's decision to remarry?
And when his father comes to the throne, would the whigs rally around him?
James II and his first wife Anne Hyde, had four sons, Charles, James, Charles and Edgar, all of whom died young.
Now what I am wondering is, what might've happened had say the youngest of those sons Edgar survived? He was born in 1667, and would've been eighteen when his father came to the throne.
Would he have been raised an anglican as his sisters were? Who might he have been betrothed/ married to?
How might his survival influence his father's decision to remarry?
And when his father comes to the throne, would the whigs rally around him?