Remember, Remember the 6th of November?

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The plan was to detonate this in the morning and destroy the building with the King, his sons and government inside.

If Fawkes and his co-conspirators had been successful, how different would our world be? King James lived on for another 20 years, before being succeeded by his son, Charles, who led all parts of the British Isles into a bloody civil war. If James and Charles had been murdered, as intended by the plotters, would the English civil war have been avoided?

At the time of the plot, Prince Charles, Duke of York and Albany, Marquess of Ormonde, Earl of Ross and Lord Ardmannoch was only second in line to the throne and only 5 (turning 6 on the 19 of November) and has still remained in Scotland, due to being a weak and sickly infant due to rickets.

Instead Parliament would be opened by King James I and VI, along with his stronger, taller and older son Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.

I'm afraid a new civil war will be close to hand, with the Catholic plotters, placing nine-year-old Princess Elizabeth Stuart, onto the English throne as Catholic Queen Elizabeth II, while Scotland will want to fight for the young King Charles I's right to his father's throne in Scotland and England.
 
Hi Jonathan - Henry was definitely the heir but my understanding is that Charles left Scotland in 1604 and was in London in November 1605 and may well have also attended the Parliament, so the King and his two sons could have been dead. The plot to kidnap Princess Elizabeth, as next in line to the throne, is an interesting one and included in Remember, Remember the 6th of November.

I agree a civil war may well have happened but it would have been critical who took control immediately after the event. I've put what I think is an interesting take in the novel on this point, with a lot of of focus on the role of Robert Cecil, the Earl of Salisbury and Spymaster General - but I don't want to give away too many spoilers.

It was a very fascinating time - England concerned about Europe, terrorism and government surveillance.
 
One of the other interesting questions is whether Robert Catesby and the Catholics had enough support for an uprising if they did kill the King and most of his government in Parliament?
 

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