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So, this is something I've been pondering as of late.

Say James, Duke of York marries Claudia Felicitas of Austria in say 1674, thanks mainly to Margaret Theresa, EMperor Leopold's first wife still being alive, one assumes that any children the couple have born during the reign of Charles II would be raised Anglican, as per the tradition by this point.

When Charles dies, James ascends the throne, and assuming he continues down his otl path, but has say two or three sons who are Anglican, with Claudia, what happens? Do the Protestant upper class wait for James to die, and hedge their bets on his eldest son, or do they remove James in favour of a regency for his son?

And what happens if in this scenario, James and Claudia have two daughters, and then in 1686/87 a son is born to them? What do the upper class do then?
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