Unironic Jacobitism in the 21st century. I just cringed myself into orbit.
That cause died at the River Boyne, through no small effort on James II's part (in fact, that could be said of the whole bloody Glorious Revolution). Whatever sad echo was left of it was cut down at Culloden.
That aside, the Stuart line didn't end with James II. Mary and Anne were as Stuart as you can get, but Anne's genetics shat the bed and didn't produce an heir. That's why the Hanoverians came in, of which the House of Windsor descends.
Unironic Jacobitism in the 21st century. I just cringed myself into orbit.
That cause died at the River Boyne, through no small effort on James II's part (in fact, that could be said of the whole bloody Glorious Revolution). Whatever sad echo was left of it was cut down at Culloden.
That aside, the Stuart line didn't end with James II. Mary and Anne were as Stuart as you can get, but Anne's genetics shat the bed and didn't produce an heir. That's why the Hanoverians came in, of which the House of Windsor descends.