AHC Bonnie Prince Charlie as King of America

This is pretty convoluted, but I came across a "what the f---" Quora answer where the author actually does seem to have done some research to back up his points. This is the relevant passage:

"Contrarily, the war could, at the political level, also be characterised as a feud between the Grand Lodge Masons who had been Royalists in the last English Civil War, and subsequently fled to America, where they became the aristocracy of the 13 Colonies, such as Washington and the original 32 signers of the Declaration of Independence, on the one hand, and the Scottish Rite and “new’ Grand Lodge Masons who had fought on the Parliamentarian side, now governing Great Britain. The majority of the leaders of the Revolution, and especially those 32 signers, whose very number was of Masonic significance, were all both Freemasons and descendents of the great Norman baronial families, forming very much an “American aristocracy” that largely governed the political and financial life of the 13 Colonies. Nonetheless, both parties were determined to have a very much more restrained and gentlemanly feud than had prevailed in Cromwell’s day."

The entire post, though long, is worth reading so I will enclose the link, though only this passage lends itself to an alternative history scenario:

https://www.quora.com/What-did-Brit...ratic-ideas-they-were-supposedly-fighting-for

So could the Grand Lodge Masons, assuming this was even a thing, have gotten the colonies behind a Jacobite revival. The way I was thinking is that a soberer Charles Stuart cleans up his act and converts to Protestantism after the death of his father and lets the Patriot party know this, and at the suggestion of Frankliin he is made King to increase the chances of European recognition. Would this work? From the rest of the passage it sounds like the alcoholism was probably not a big deal, but the Catholicism was.

Since Charles Stuart was childless the monarchy would have quickly become elective anyway.
 
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