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I know most will read this and go "what tragedy? Weren't the Stuarts were restored that year?" Well I'm getting to that. Yes 1660 was the year the Stuarts were restored to the throne. However, in the later half of the year Prince Henry Stuart Duke of Gloucester and Princess Mary Stuart, Princess Royal & Dowager Princess of Orange, died of smallpox. So my question is what if they both lived? How would this effect British history? With Henry I can pretty much guess but what about Mary? Would she manage to get the Regency for her son, the future William III? Would the House of Orange be restored to the Stadtholdership earlier with Mary alive to keep the Orange cause alive in the Stuart Court? Would Henry become Henry IX? Would the Stuarts continue to reign up to today? Hell would Mary remarry, since she was only 28/29?
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