any history buffs out there? Can you answer a question?

I know, I can barely read it myself but I don't know how to enlarge it.

But here's a little more history:

The Catholic King James II was largely tolerated because it was known that his only two heirs from his first wife Anne Hyde, daughters Mary and Anne, were both protestant.

After Anne Hyde died, he remarried to Mary of Modena, who was only 15 at that time in 1673. In the following nine years she gave birth to four children, but none survived more than a few months except a daughter who only lived a few short years.

Meanwhile, the heiress presumptive daughter Mary moved to Holland and married William of Orange. 

Unexpectedly, Mary of Modena gave birth to a healthy son in 1688, which of course due to primogeniture laws, would usurp Mary and William's right to the throne. Rumors were immediately circulated that the baby was smuggled into the Queen's bed and was not really a true heir to the throne. (Which IMO, I find rather ridiculous and Mary would have still been of child-bearing age.) 

Later that year, William marched to London with Protestant support, with Mary soon following.

James II felt deserted and panicked, he, Mary of Modena and their son, the would-be James III fled to France and was given asylum by Louis XIV who gave him a palace to set up court in exile and became the focus for the Jacobites.

Parliament declared James II abdicated the throne. In April 1689, Parliament decided to offer the throne to William and Mary jointly. Mary died in 1694 and William died in 1702 with no heirs, so Mary's sister Anne took the throne. She died in 1714 with no living heirs, so that ended the House of Stuart and the crown went to George I of Hanover.

Meanwhile, in exile, James III declared himself King of England and Scotland upon the death of his father in 1701. Despite the fact that France, Spain and the papal states recognized him as such (they never acknowledged William & Mary or Anne), he never successfully regained the throne and ruled only in exile. He married Maria Clementina Sobieska granddaughter of King John III Sobieska of Poland. They had 2 sons, the eldest being the charismatic Charles Edward Stuart or "Bonnie Prince Charlie" born in 1720.

Supported by the French and with the aid of Highland Clans, Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to march on Scotland with some success in 1745. The victory was short-lived though and The Battle of Culloden outside Inverness was a disaster for the Prince and he escaped back to France. That was the end of attempts to restore the House of Stuart and Bonnie Prince Charlie died in 1788, still in exile.

If anyone read all that you must either like history or be very bored today, lol. I read a book on Bonnie Prince Charlie because I stayed at Stuart Castle which is nearby the Battle of Culloden and has portraits of the battle and the Bonnie Prince hanging in the castle. Dang it though, their website is down because the castle is currently being renovated.