Ungrateful Daughters
St. Martin's, Jan 2003, 35.00, 480 pp.
ISBN: 031230711X
's contention is that the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688 occurred due to religious differences that came to a head due to royal pregnancy. King James II was a Catholic and his two daughters were Protestant. When James' Catholic wife became pregnant, leading Protestants including James' oldest daughter Mary, married to the King's nephew Prince William of Orange, encouraged her spouse to take...