why were multiple Stuarts drawn to Catholicism like a moth to the flame, ruining their political prospects?
I mean they were enthroned in a system where they were head of the church, yet several wanted to renounce that role in favor of the Pope?
Was it just a series that of random consequences of childhood educations and upbringings?
Did the Stuarts feel the need to be part of a religious institution larger than themselves, with an authority they could look up to?
Was there a covert Catholic influence campaign targeting them?
After the Stuarts, monarchs of later dynasties were no longer trying to restore Catholicism or convert to it, but Hanoverian Kings and Princes sure seemed to have a thing for Catholic mistresses. Was this pattern just an irresistible attraction to the forbidden fruit?
I mean they were enthroned in a system where they were head of the church, yet several wanted to renounce that role in favor of the Pope?
Was it just a series that of random consequences of childhood educations and upbringings?
Did the Stuarts feel the need to be part of a religious institution larger than themselves, with an authority they could look up to?
Was there a covert Catholic influence campaign targeting them?
After the Stuarts, monarchs of later dynasties were no longer trying to restore Catholicism or convert to it, but Hanoverian Kings and Princes sure seemed to have a thing for Catholic mistresses. Was this pattern just an irresistible attraction to the forbidden fruit?