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IOTL King James II of England's wife, Mary of Modena, fled to France with their six-month old son, James Francis Edward Stuart, a day before the king himself tried to flee and was captured.

What if the elder James managed to flee and the Prince of Wales was captured? Originally, William of Orange had only come to give military support to Parliament and was only crowned alongside Mary when it was decided James II had effectively abdicated. In these different circumstances, somehow putting the warming pan myth aside, would Parliament instead have had the baby prince crowned James III and raised in the Anglican faith?
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