WI William III remarries after the death of Mary II?

I don't know if this has been brought up, but are we sure William is even able to produce a child? I mean we assume that William and Mary's childlessness was because of her miscarriage, but could any of it be on William as well? I mean look at his mistress. Elizabeth Villiers was William III's mistress for almost 15 years, from 1680 to 1695, with no pregnancy whatsoever. Then, after she marries, she three children. So it seems to be that William could also be infertile or at the very least have low sperm count.
 
I also heard rumors that William was bisexual - a "nurse crush" on a courtier whom he met circa 1675 and who helped him to recover during the disease. May be something affecting his relations with women.
The Elisabeth Villiers relationship is a proof of him not being that fertile, though. I'm currently researching on this for my TL (where William is married to a Princess of East Frisia), and the results are dubious. Maybe his sperm count deteriorated with age, and the marriage AFTER 1694 is bound to be infertile no matter whom he marries - William is simply too old at that point.
 
I also heard rumors that William was bisexual - a "nurse crush" on a courtier whom he met circa 1675 and who helped him to recover during the disease. May be something affecting his relations with women.
The Elisabeth Villiers relationship is a proof of him not being that fertile, though. I'm currently researching on this for my TL (where William is married to a Princess of East Frisia), and the results are dubious. Maybe his sperm count deteriorated with age, and the marriage AFTER 1694 is bound to be infertile no matter whom he marries - William is simply too old at that point.

This is pretty much what I was thinking as well. I mean look at Williams uncles. Both Charles II and James II produced numerous bastards, and on James's side, legitimate children. And not to mention his sister-in-law's fertility. I think the problem lay with both William and Mary.
 
I also heard rumors that William was bisexual - a "nurse crush" on a courtier whom he met circa 1675 and who helped him to recover during the disease. May be something affecting his relations with women.
The Elisabeth Villiers relationship is a proof of him not being that fertile, though. I'm currently researching on this for my TL (where William is married to a Princess of East Frisia), and the results are dubious. Maybe his sperm count deteriorated with age, and the marriage AFTER 1694 is bound to be infertile no matter whom he marries - William is simply too old at that point.

What if William's second marriage is the same as Carlos II's in your timeline, Valena? Granted, Im guessing it's unlikely since IDK of a Dutch Juan Jose, but it might be a good idea?
 
I'm not sure about that - unlike Carlos, William is not publicly known to be infertile, though plain old cheating of wife without high political background is still within a realm of possibility. But then he needs to marry somebody with morality (or lack thereof) of OTL Duchess of Berry, who despises her husband enough to cheat on him. And I'm not sure about British toleration of such behavior of the Queen, which is quite different from Queen and Prime Minister of a country being alone for a few hours needed to "save the country" (as I did in my TL, after getting a Queen who is ready to go along with the plan). You risk to get yourself the wife of Edward II 2.0 which is BAD for England rep.
 
comparisons will be drawn to Edward II/III and with James III being the warming pan baby only a few years earlier, it might be a problem. However, in both cases it was the queen who caught the rap, not (in Edward III and Edward of Lancaster) the son and heir. So, allow Gloucester to live a few years longer but still die childless or leave only a daughter, who then gets married to William's purported son. Or make William's second wife someone with her own claim to the English throne - Henriette of Brunswick (sister to the Empress and to the Duchess of Modena) - springs to mind. And just to kill rumors of illegitimacy two children (maybe one born posthumously) could be produced.
 
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