Friday, January 6, 2012

How was The House of Stuarts relationship with Scotland? continued...?

Well when you consider the Execution of Charles I, the restoration, the Glorious Revolution, and the total disaster of every jacobite rebellion, not very successful. You have to bear in mind that sectarianism was even more contentious then than it is now, and it is still pretty insidious. So the open catholicism of James II and his descendants did not endear him to the English who were prepared to go any lengths to suppress the Scots rebels, the protestant Stuarts, Mary (and her husband William) and Mary's sister Anne were not popular in Scotland, and Union had to be imposed against Scots wishes by the simple expedient of bribing key members of the council. Following Anne's death, the crown ped to the Elector of Hanover as he was the closest in the succession who was not Catholic.

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