Stuart Dynasty In Poland.

After the Glorious Revolution James II lived in exile in France, at that time Louis XIV was trying to get him elected as the king of Poland in 1692 since Jan Sobieski was ill at the time, so WI James was elected as king of Poland and his son succeeds him how would that effect Europe.
 
Poor chances, I think. I doubt Poles would have elected a king who had lost his kingdom because of his absolutist ways. Polish noblemen were obsessed with their "golden freedom" and they would have never accpeted an absolutist king. And again, a king who had lost his kingdom. Not to mention IMHO James himself wouldn't have accepted a crown with such limited power.
 
And again, a king who had lost his kingdom.

Oh, like Stanislaw Leszczynski and (I'm stretching here) Wladyslaw IV Waza? :D

I don't think James ever wanted to be King of Poland. At all. Now, Conti was extremely reluctant and still made a token effort to take the throne that his cousin had paid for, but James II was so stubborn in his desire to regain England (or at least stay in a luxurious French chateau) that he wouldn't even get on the boat. His son only married a Sobieski because nobody else in Europe would touch him with a ten-foot bargepole.
 
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