James II dies in 1688, what next?

I wonder what this'd do to the American colonies... will there even be a French and Indian War to finally end the French claim to the Ohio Valley and bind the thirteen colonies together?
 
I wonder what this'd do to the American colonies... will there even be a French and Indian War to finally end the French claim to the Ohio Valley and bind the thirteen colonies together?

Hmm it is possible, if things go a certain way. I guess it depends entirely on the whole relationshp between the Kings and their policy goals
 
By the way, from wikibox it turns out that he's King since birth - maybe in this TL it's James II who has sort of unfortunate molehill accident and James III is a posthumous child?

Maybe he's out hunting when a messenger arrives telling him his wife's gone into labour, he hurries back but on the way -- oh dear, is that a molehill?
 
I wouldn't be surprised if Parliament pulls a Louis Philippe and offer the throne to William and Mary with the Old Pretender assuming the role of the Count of Chambord in order to avoid another Catholic ruler. To make the TL more interesting, you can have TTL's William and Mary have either a son or daughter (I would prefer a daughter) who then dies childless in the 1740s. Parliament can then offer the throne to the Young Pretender who would be willing to convert, saying "London is well worth a prayer book,".
 
I wouldn't be surprised if Parliament pulls a Louis Philippe and offer the throne to William and Mary with the Old Pretender assuming the role of the Count of Chambord in order to avoid another Catholic ruler. To make the TL more interesting, you can have TTL's William and Mary have either a son or daughter (I would prefer a daughter) who then dies childless in the 1740s. Parliament can then offer the throne to the Young Pretender who would be willing to convert, saying "London is well worth a prayer book,".
Lol,
 
I wouldn't be surprised if Parliament pulls a Louis Philippe and offer the throne to William and Mary with the Old Pretender assuming the role of the Count of Chambord in order to avoid another Catholic ruler. To make the TL more interesting, you can have TTL's William and Mary have either a son or daughter (I would prefer a daughter) who then dies childless in the 1740s. Parliament can then offer the throne to the Young Pretender who would be willing to convert, saying "London is well worth a prayer book,".
*Creativity starts twitching*
 
So, James III becomes King at birth, with James II having died perhaps a day before or on the day of his son's birth. James's regents would be his sister Anne and her husband George, the Earl of Marlborough, the Duke of Berwick, and likely the Duke of Norfolk as well as the premier peer in the realm. He's likely to be betrothed and later married to Maria Amalia of Orange, a cousin to William of Orange. He'd be raised a devout Anglican no doubt, and would marry Maria around 1704, the same time as his formal coronation.

Also included is the survival of Maria Antonia and her son Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, who'd succeed to the Spanish throne, leading to Milan going to Charles of Austria, Naples and Sicily going to France, whilst everything else remains in Spanish hands I believe. This likely leads to some form of conflict in the short term.

Is there anything else, I'm missing?
 
Can Princess Mary, daughter of Anne and George (b.1690, premature) survive TTL to be born full term? Gloucester's conception is also post-POD, so King Jamie may well be raised and grow up together with a cousin or two of his.
If Mary survives, she can marry John William Friso (b.1687) in a double Anglo-Dutch match.
 
Can Princess Mary, daughter of Anne and George (b.1690, premature) survive TTL to be born full term? Gloucester's conception is also post-POD, so King Jamie may well be raised and grow up together with a cousin or two of his.
If Mary survives, she can marry John William Friso (b.1687) in a double Anglo-Dutch match.

I like it, so we'd have Mary growing up with her cousin, betrothed to John William Friso, and then William Duke of Gloucester perhaps being born without the illness that killed him otl as well. A strong family connection then.
 
I wonder about a wife for Gloucester in this scenario - a "whoever does not get Jamie"? Though Sophia Dorothea is unlikely - William's mom disliked House of Hannover. And while Willam III would like to "Dutch'ify" the House of Stuart as much as possible (having no shortage of first cousins once removed) I'd like for future Duchess of Gloucester to be not Dutch.
 
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