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No, probably not the way you were thinking.

I was rereading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (great book by a great author, neither of which I can recommend highly enough) and I got to thinking: what if Charles II outlived the Duke of York? Say, James dies of syphilis in 1865, and Chuck manages to make it another year or two. this means that Mary (and, probably, William) is the new monarch. But, they haven't been called in by parliament, there's no Glorious Revolution in the political field either, maybe even less antiCatholicism. I don't think Will's tastes ran to absolutism, given how meekly he put up with the Dutch and English IOTL, but you never know. Any other thoughts?
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