When Queen Anne was near death, Robert Harley and Henry Bolingbroke reached out to the man who would one day be called the Old Pretender and talked about his possible accession to the Throne if he converted. He refused stating, "I have chosen my own course, therefore it is for others to change their sentiments." But what if he hadn't? What if he had agreed to convert to Anglicanism? Would his accession to being king even be possible? He would still have been Catholic at one point so I think legally, he'd still be considered Catholic but who knows? It still seems unlikely to me but it might give him a chance at least of becoming King for real.
What if James Francis Edward Stuart/the Old Pretender had agreed to become Anglican?
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Interesting. Was there a movement of people who really would have preferred James but weren't willing to support him because he was Catholic?
Ooh, this is about as likely as a Catholic Elizabeth I...that being said he will get a lot of support if he does, and Anne will gladly and peacefully allow him to succeed
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If James Francis Edward Stuart was indeed willing to convert, would the Act of Settlement of 1701 be declared null and void?
Would a 1714 Stuart Restoration even be viewed as legitimate since Parliament had witnessed his father's reign as king and the Glorious Revolution?
Would a 1714 Stuart Restoration even be viewed as legitimate since Parliament had witnessed his father's reign as king and the Glorious Revolution?
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It may we’ll be , or it may be kept.
and yes it would be legitimate. No reason for it not to be. The moment james converts and is in London he controls to levers of power.