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James was born in Holyrood Abbey. [1] He was the son of King James I and Joan Beaufort. [2] By his first birthday, his only brother, his older twin, Alexander, had died, thus leaving James as heir apparent with the title Duke of Rothesay.
Coronation procession of King James II and Queen Mary, 1685. Charles II died on 6 February 1685 from apoplexy, after supposedly converting to Catholicism on his deathbed. [73] Having no legitimate children, he was succeeded by his brother James, who reigned in England and Ireland as James II and in Scotland as James VII.
During the reign of Charles II, the Scottish Parliament was dissolved and James was appointed Governor of Scotland. James II himself became James VII in 1685. His Catholicism was not tolerated, and he was driven out of England after three years. In his place came his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange, the ruler of the Dutch Republic.
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King of France: House of Hanover: Charles Duke of Cornwall 1629: King Charles II 1630–1685 r. 1649–1651 r. 1660–1685 (Scotland) r. 1660–1685 (England) Catherine of Braganza 1638–1705 Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland: William II 1626–1650 Prince of Orange: Mary Princess Royal 1631–1660 Princess of Orange: Anne Hyde 1637 ...
Joan Beaufort (c. 1404 – 15 July 1445) [2] was Queen of Scots from 1424 to 1437 as the spouse of King James I. [3] During part of the minority of her son James II (from 1437 to 1439), she served as the regent of Scotland, the first dowager Queen of Scotland to do so since the 13th century.
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Louisa Maria was born in 1692, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France, four years after her father had fled England never to return. [3] Owing to the huge controversy which had surrounded the birth of her brother, James Francis Edward, with accusations of the substitution of another baby in a warming pan following a still-birth, James II had sent letters inviting not only his daughter, Queen Mary ...