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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2020
- Professor Kate Williams reflects on the reign of King James II, who ruled for only three years. Learn how this last Stuart king was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
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Fortunately, William of Orange was both the third William of England and of the Netherlands. It makes it easier to remember.
Earl Spencer is so eloquent, it's so nice to hear his voice in these documentaries !
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Time 2:45AM Sun 5/31/20
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Well, yes, but describing his adherence to Catholicism as pig-headedness is... wrong-headed. That was the king's religion and most people took religion very seriously back then. Not to adhere to his religion would have been odder. The real issue was Protestant zealotry and the Penal laws... caused centuries of issues in Ireland subsequently too.
I love this series!! I had no idea Earl Spencer was an author/historian!!
The only issue I have is the idea the Stuart's were over with James II. Mary II and Anne were his daughters and Stuarts too!
Megan Rosebud agreed
@? lol, 😅, I like that
Megan Rosebud. Very well written Megan: Queen Anne was the last of the Stuart monarchs. Earl Spencer doesn't seem much of a Stuart lover and you might like to have a look at this debate. ua-cam.com/video/AF8_J-M5Ahs/v-deo.html
@@elrjames7799 Which is crazy because he's descended from literally all of those Kings. Lol.
Earl Spencer is descended from Charles II along two lines and James II on another... which of course means Diana was as well.
When William is crowned, the Stuarts are back... sort of!
In this age we forget just how important Religion was in history and how deeply felt the need to be in God's grace was in the vast majority of people. The failure of the Stuart kings to recognise how strong the Protestant faith was in England and how 'hated' Catholicism was. Especially after Blood Mary and the Armada there was no way that England would accept going back to the Catholic faith, with the perceived spilt allegiance between Country and Pope
One fifth of England was catholic then, even higher percentage in Scotland, granting religious freedom and stopping persecution of catholics wasn’t extreme the constant pursuit of it was and going to the extent of inviting a foreign invading army says it all. Protestant zealous are to blame.
@@SI-cd7xs Figures for the religious breakdowns are highly unlikely to be entirely accurate but i have not encountered any academical study that places the numbers of Catholics in England or Scotland at this time as high as you suggest. One study suggests that up to 5% of the population may have been Catholic at this time, with a slightly higher percentage of 7% or so among the wealthy and landed gentry and aristocracy. Scotland's Catholic adherents were of a similar size percentage wise but fewer in actual due to the relative population sizes.
Well said Shane Prosser🙂🐿
@@SI-cd7xs one fifth!
Could you please share your source? I’m interested to read the research about this subject. 🙂🐿
@@SI-cd7xs I'm not sure of the extent in England but it crippled Ireland and left the native Irish Catholics in destitution and deposed of they lands under the penal laws and was given to Anglo and Scottish Protestants.
A lot of people are blaming religion for the conflict in the comment section. It was actually more political, but religion was strongly tied to politics back then. The reason why King James’ Catholicism was so strongly opposed by the Protestants is because Catholicism was associated with Spanish and French kings who held absolute power. The English feared that if a catholic king remained on the British throne then they would slowly be turned into an absolute monarch like that of Spain and France. So it wasn’t just the Catholic religion by itself that was so hated, but the politics associated with Catholicism.
I initially thought it was all about religion, but the more I read about the 17th century the more I realised that it was more political. Some of James II’s opponents weren’t even Christian. For instance, the earl Anthony Ashley-Cooper was strongly opposed to a catholic monarch, but he was a deist, not a protestant and barely even a Christian. Why? Because he associated Catholicism with tyranny and absolute monarchs.
the spanish monarchy was a feudal monarchy, like the english monarchy. The diference between the spanish and the english monarchy, was the americas`s silver, the spanish king was more rich than the english king. The spanish king didn t need to ask money to the parlaments of their kingdoms very frecuently. The spanish monarchy started to be absolute with the new Borbon dynasty in 1715.
@@elriolimpio Yeah for a long time until the early modern era monarch weren't absolute.
Did you mean "religion was strongly tied to politics" ?
The church WAS the political power in those days .
Finally watching a documentary
About the Stuarts I have been
Watching a lot of documentaries
About the Tutors.
Time 2:36AM Sun 5/31/20
I stuck with this series of programmes to the end but was disappointed. I don't know why Mary II and Anne weren't covered - after all, Mary was the only reason William of Orange gained access to the throne and they were JOINT monarchs - and I feel there was too much focus on religion and not enough analysis of how politics often used religious differences to achieve its aims. The added element of the Wyn family was interesting but it would have been good to feature some experiences of the lower orders of society under the Stuarts as well. I laughed out loud when A N Wilson harped on about how wonderful it must have been to live in the new London built after the fire of 1666 - I doubt those who were left homeless and hungry stopped to marvel at the architecture.
I also had a problem with Kate Williams' presentation. I have seen her on documentaries before and found her interesting and intelligent and although she was still both of those things here, she adopted an over-the-top style of presentation that at times seemed more like the acting in a Carry On film than a documentary. I might be wrong but I think she might have been trying to emulate Lucy Worsley's rather 'quirky' style but it didn't come across well at all. Just be yourself!
Everything you write here is important and needs to be written. Wilson's total lack of understanding of the personal disaster caused by the fire of 1666 is striking and more than slightly horrifying. William's "over-the-top " presentation is totally off-putting for anyone who is watching this for the content and not simply as entertainment. It is as appropriate as an artificial laugh track. Try watching her with the sound off to see the puppet-jerking artificial acting.
It doesn't fit the narrative of the day. Focusing on religious discord rather than the core issues is much simpler and presents the message they wish to give.
Love that Princess Diana's younger brother is one of the primary commentators of this series...
Well the Spencer's are descendants of Charles II. If/when prince William succeeds to the throne, he will be the first ever king to be a descendant of Charles II.
I laughed when he said that James “came out” as Catholic.
Don’t worry darling, I’m sure it’s just a phase he’s going through. We could introduce him to some nice Protestant people, invite them over. He’ll soon tire of those Catholic types.
So funny. Except for in my case it wasn’t religion, it was different cultures. And it fits too😂. Well, here we are 40 years later......edit. But it was a nice try on their part.
"...[B]ut unfortunately being so pig-headedly Roman Catholic...." Actually, if the speaker wasn't so pig-headedly anti-Catholic, he might have said and realized that sincere devotion to one's Faith, even unto death, is considered by most an admirable quality and shines in the memories of the martyrs. Even his brother Charles was a deathbed convert, although he concealed his intentions to convert until the last moment.
@@uptonsavoie You are missing the point. Everyone knew James II was a Catholic. They were willing to tolerate that. They were not willing to tolerate his using the considerable power of the throne to force England back to Catholicism after a century of Protestantism.
And the problem was that Catholics considered part of their faith to force others to adopt their faith.
@@uptonsavoie the question was about stopping the domestic bloodshed over the Catholic/Protestant issue. If you take into consideration what was happening on the Continent it makes sense. The problem does not apply within the different Christian faiths in our current times. Perhaps they could have worded it better but it was critical at the time to have a unified Protestant Country for the sake of peace and prosperity. It's unfortunate but if we draw back we are still shedding blood over.things with religion being one of the foundations of these wars. If we really tear it apart we should all just try to be more tolerant and less violent and judgmental in all aspects of life
@@boredlawyer3382 if you can tell me a religion that does not have some adherents who wish to foist their beliefs onto others I'd be really interested in hearing about it.
Fact: Matthew (Campbell) Rhea was part of argylls rising in 1685 to overthrow king James the second, after his capture instead of executing him, they sentence him to life imprisonment in the Isle of men (worst mistake that the king would ever make) and escaped to the shores of Londonderry in Ireland. To complete his disguise, he changed his name to Rhea and marry Jane (Baxter) Rhea for hundreds of years generations grow and the descendants of Matthew Campbell still talk about him today.
Catholics forgot Christs Command....LOVE ONE ANOTHER...IT TURNED TO KILL ONE ANOTHER
His Declaration of Indulgence in 1687 was a positive step towards religious tolerance. Unfortunately reversed under William.
The problem is that it was politically inept, instead of looking like religious tolerance it looked like a power grab by a religious minority.
@@voiceofraisin3778 catholics were absolutely not a minority lmao. they were just the ones being oppressed/suppressed at the time. the division was based on class not religion, religion was just used for political optics. trust me if the poor people had been protestant at the time and the rich had been catholic then they would've called protestants the minority instead.
How does one tolerate religion?
Religious conflicts have probably taken more lives than all the plagues combined. I'm thankful everyday for the American Revolution.
I have heard the old canard said, usually by atheists, that religion has been the reason for more wars and human death, but an informed study of history reveals that it is just not so. Let us reference just one plague, the Black Death of the mid 1300s - that plague is said to have killed 50 million in Europe alone, which is equivalent to the death toll of the Second World War, whose death toll is greater than all previous wars put together; so religious wars have not killed more people than plagues.
Our Civil War wasn't a walk in the park.
Only the Islam, but the all the ism took much more and the protex kiled many Catholics the true religion of the west and the world
The Catholic build all monarch and without her your country will never exist🫡
Love this era. Nice to learn more about the Stuart era.
What's a Stuart?
@@thelordgold Obviously you don't know anything about English history. I am related to the Stuart dynasty. They were the monarchy that formed Britain into what it is today.
@@kathrynjordan8782 wow that sounded ignorant cousin, did a lot of ancestry and I’m related to em too, it’s nothing special. Alot of people are related to em
@@kathrynjordan8782 Also did Ulster Plantation does Ulster Scots turned on the Stuart's.
@@kathrynjordan8782 Not to sound rude, but thousands if not millions are related to the Stuarts and greater dynasties, nothing to really brag about though.
Wow what happened in Ireland was given such a tiny little footnote in this but had such consequences right up to the present day.
I read once that Queen Mary II was plagued with guilty for having overthrown her own Father and King, and that she was afraid, sadly, for having broken the Holy Commandment of Honouring one's parents, as she was very religious
Wow!!! It's amazing (and sad!) to see that old man outlive alll the Wynns that lived in that castle. Lady Mary and Lady Grace. I am sure he's seen so much in his time and when he said he was a solider, he was "To a martyred king", meaning he served under Charles the I. I would have liked to his his stories in the time he lived during the Stuarts. Thanks for making these videos!!! I learned so much the Stuart Dynasty I never knew.
I hope they mention the 3rd youngest son Henry of Gloucester who is my 12th great grandfather and the only Stuart child to have legitimate children with his wife Magdalina Howison, history seemed to erased him for some unknown reason, he was the people's chosen prince ,not Charles II. Actually in fact some historians seemed to steal Henry's history and added it on to Charles II history for some reason, Henry was the one in exile because Charles I was insane and thought the people was going to install Henry on the throne instead of his two elder brothers and exiled Henry and told Henry to not accept the crown if he was asked by the people. Ticked me off for trying to erase my family
Interesting series but the omission of Anne and Mary II is very disappointing.
Especially since they were, you know, James II’s own DAUGHTERS and all.
So at least 22 people missed it 3 years ago. They were indeed mentioned.
Excellent, thank you.
I think that lady steals rugs from the houses she does her monologues from and makes coats out of them
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lol
I like it.
I'm a descendant of King James II & VII on my mom's side. He's my 10th great grandfather
A presenting style which would be better suited to children's television, complete with the usual am-dram reconstructions. Coincidentally, I've just been rewatching some of Michael Wood's documentaries, which are on another level - made in the days before dumbing down and clowning around.
Good video presentation, very professional editing. When casting to my TV, though, I had difficulty in distinguishing the narrator's voice over the level of the background music. Might just be me.
Great series, but I thoroughly disappointed there was no mention of James II's daughters' reigns - Mary II and husband William III as well as Queen Anne. The Act of Union of Britain did occur during Anne's reign in 1707,
Both reigns were as disastrous as King James II all three failed their most important roles, providing an heir..
@@johncahalane7327 wrong, the most important thing in your reign is making your country more prosperous and more happy. A legitimate succesor can also be a nephew or distant cousin if necessary.
I know its a long time since I was at school, but I was always under the impression Queen Anne was the last Stuart Monarch...
I thought that as well, I'm sure I saw it on a Lucy Wordsley program.
She said in the documentary James was the last Stuart King ! ..not monarch.!..Mary and her sister Anne did not have any heirs so Anne was the Last Stuart Monarch and Queen.
@@Tam10101999 So it seems we have to accept a fine distinction between a (true) Stuart king (e.g. James II but not William III) and a king who is a member of the Stuart dynasty (e.g. William III) ...
@@alanbunyan5007 Yes, William was from the House of Orange.
she was
Good documentary
Considering how tired of Oliver Cromwell's puritan restrictiveness the country was by the time of his death, you would have thought there would have been some ill sentiment growing toward protestantism and a larger openness to Catholicism. Which should have made it easier for Charles II (Who apparently held a secret love for the Catholic Church and seemed to have converted on his death bed) and James II (who was openly Catholic) to rule in a way that showed more positivity to Catholics.
It's just fascinating to me how the people of England turned so quickly against the Catholic Church, when Henry VIII's separation from Rome was clearly due to his obsession with having a male heir, rather than any real theological or doctrinal disagreement with the Catholic Church.
You're over-simplifying it, it wasn't just about Henry's libido although that was certainly a catalyst, and the country didn't convert quickly it took centuries and is still divided today. It had a lot to do with moving away from the superpowers of France and Spain, and the unhappiness over Puritan restrictions were about allowing people to follow Protestantism in their own way, which is how different denominations came about.
@@drey8 That's true, but it seems to me that taking such a route led to a lot of chaos and conflict that could have been avoided if Catholicism had remained the primary faith of England. I guess I just dont' feel the trade off was worth it, IMO.
@@jeskerjames2938 That "trade-off" led to wars with France and Spain, union (unholy perhaps) with Scotland, and empire. Whether or not you think it was worth it, you can't disagree it was monumental. And why should England take a lead from Rome? After all, the United States weren't going to take a lead from England. A lot of chaos and conflict could've been avoided there as well.
I love this narrator/ historian!!! 💜💖💜💖💜💖
Yes I love her tiny lisp and she is hot
Vice versa for me - I almost turned it off... Is she a failed actress? What's with the over-emoting? The exaggerated hand and facial gestures? It looked like she was in the throes of an epileptic fit.
She is a professor of History at Reading University in Berkshire, her name is Kate Williams, and yes she is hot.
Thank you
The ads annoyed me bro i just wanna watch 🤓
King William lll of Orange shared his birthday with Prince Charles, 14th November. Both destined to rule England for a very short time, in Charles case, if at all.
After leaving School the first man I worked with told me that a little knowledge is dangerous so you must know all the facts before you accept them! These sort of documentorys endorse that. Thanks for a great video!
Thanks to the Stuarts, we have the Outlander books.
That's not how it works kid. The Outlander books take place during the reign of Georgian kings. You need to learn history before commenting on it.
Anthony Warren but, the Hanoverians only reigned because the later Stuarts couldn’t provide suitable heirs, if they had heirs at all.
It's because you see a lot of Prince Charlie (Catholic ) pretender in that series and The Scots foolishly supporting him to win The English Throne, The Battle of Culloden where they lost.
@@anthonywarren9885 bro the series is set and based around the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, there can’t be a Jacobite rebellion without the Stuart’s reining and being deposed, so the point remains that without the Stuart’s, there would be no outlander.
I don’t see what issue you took with the original comment to make you go full redditor faux historian.
Dire documentary.
The shadow of these historical events is still cast over the tragic State of Northern Ireland and the continuing divisions between Unionist and Nationalist, Protestant and Catholic and the difficult and fractious relations between the Atlantic Islands of Western Europe, between Ireland and Britain.
Not quite, even up to the end of World War 2. England had hoped to retain their old empire, going forward until a few decades ago. English classroom would boast to young English idealist how truly vast this empire of theirs truly was. The saying, the empire on which the sun never set. Even national hymns such as Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the wave could bring an Englishman to tears. Up to World War One, newspapers would blast Kaiser's Germany for threatening English supremacy of the seas. Germany was a threat for challenging English colonial holding. English dominance is the ability to play one against the other. Northern Ireland is a strategic importance, you can't destroy a people for hundreds of years and leave them to their own devices, they might think of revenge. So, you establish a buffer zone on their territory and hold forever.
Such a fun way of learning history....
John Wynn's beard delights my heart. 🤣
I love it.
39:45 Look at how he smiles when he says that.
My teacher who taught Constitution used to smile like that when she was explaining all the ways in which politicians do not care about our constitution. it is not a happy smile, it is more to hide discomfort. But in a person giving interviews that will be watched, it looks bad. He should train not to show it.
Interesting that James was sixteen when his father was executed. Thats the same age Lenin was when his older brother was executed by the Tsar.
I appreciate the view of the noble family and all that but it's a bit too micro for what they are trying to explain here.
The way the English treated their monarchy through the ages, makes me wonder why they really needed one at all. It was not truly about religion. They were/are still uneasy with a monarchy with absolute powers. It is not black or white , catholicism v protestantism..it's far more complex than that.
Because when you have a bunch of nobles of roughly equivalent power, they're always battling for control. It can be far more advantageous to have that question settled and one royal line already decided to hold power. That's the general idea.
@@anonynony4410 but what if someone else had better & greater ideas? A better leader.
@@msbrowngault They still can lead, but the question of the top seat is already settled, and so are the civil wars. There's many influential and powerful positions still available. It's an advantageous enough system that powerful people, who would love to be that leader, chose that instead.
Englishmen have never taken kindly to autocrats and neither have their cousins across the Pond.
Those chaps ended up creating a republic but the people at home were satisfied with a monarchy with its powers severely curtailed.
29:50 That poor horse's eyes!!!!
@Football X-Andr The poor thing looks terrified! 😢
Its so scared at that part!! 😰😞
Whilst I enjoyed this episode as I knew little about James 11, he obviously hadn't learnt any lessons from his father's time by thinking he could steamroller Catholicism into the country when just over the Channel Protestants were being subjected to terrible cruelty.
Personally I found the constant reference to the Wyn family a annoying injection
I also was frustrated by the lack of information on Mary 11 as without her William would not have even arrived in the UK at the time he did
Charles I was Protestant
Loved this .. but to many ads...
Use a ad blocker! Some are free and there's no ads.
Kirstie...TOO many ads. Regards.
JamesII was not the last Stuart monarch. His daughter Anne was the last one.
No but he was a the last king
Theriously good
Would be good if timeline done some documentaries about the stuarts that come before James vi ( yeah he wasn’t the first Stuart king) they seem to just get ignored for some reason
Yeah but he was the first Stuart king of England
The papacy and the Catholic world continued regarding the Stewarts as the legitimate rulers of Great Britain -the 1727 opera ,Sigismond king of Poland" by Leonardo Vinci is dedicated to "his majesty James the Third king of Great Britain" even though by 1727 the Hanoverians were securely on the throne.The James III of the operatic dedication is actually the Old Pretender who lived in Italy most of his life -son of James II by Mary of Modena.Later his own son,Bonnie Prince Charlie,also made a bid for the British throne.
What are you talking about? In the first place Leonardo da Vinci didn't write operas and you're in the wrong century there.
@@tetrahedron1000 Not Leonardo DA Vinci from the 15 century. He means Leonardo Vinci the music composer who lived from 1690 to 1730.
@@tetrahedron1000 Totally different people -the opera composer was Leonardo Vinci who was an 18th century Calabrian (toe of Italy) person and the other one was Leonardo DA Vinci -15th century Florentine!I believe though that Leonardo DA Vinci did write some music too but not operas as that art form wasn't invented until about 150 years later.If you want to view one of Leonardo Vinci's operatic masterpieces I suggest the French production of "Artaserse" -featuring 3 of the world's greatest male sopranos.
It always baffles me how they lasted so long.
Watching this at 1:22AM
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And I'm watching @ 11:56 pm 5/14/20. Different part of the world.
Either turn the video audio up or turn the commercial sound down please
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It has always amazed me how most of the worlds conflicts revolve around religion.
So much for the preaching of peace!
Equally; has it always amazed me to, how excruciatingly stupid and superbly uncritical, acritical simplisms of [pseudo]sociological fetishes can so easily bastardize historiography..
In reality, it had next to nothing to do with religion and everything to do with the authority of parliament over the king.
It’s an easy excuse to justify ones actions and rally others to your “team”.
Why should it.......Religion is based on myth, and like the "glories of war" indulged in by the madmen of the world.....
The King you call the first Stuart king was really the 6th Stuart king.
You have forgotten who came after Elizabeth 1st of England.
"The thought of James becoming the first Catholic monarch", Oh dear, so according to this all the kings from Edward the Confessor and before to Edward VI were not Catholics?, the latter being the first Protestant Monarch according to historical accuracy.
"Please Miss, what am I protesting about?"
If anyone has read the novels of SG Maclean - then surely this absolutely charming redhead presenter with her beautiful locks is a dead cert for the part of Lady Anne Winter- Royalist supporter and swanky spy also. If they televise the books. Wonderful looking lass.
King James11 appointed Baron John Belasyse as a privy councillor and first lord of the treasury, he was a catholic. Belasyse had helped round up many of the 59 men who had signed the death warrant of King Charles 1. Three of those men, Generals Whalley, Goffe and Colonel Dixwell had fled to Hadley Massachusetts. Belasyse landed in Boston in 1664 to hunt them down. My book, In the Name of the Crown by Anthony Matthews, tells the story, my face book page of the same name and pods on UA-cam, In the Name of the Crown an historical backstory, A man hunt tells much of the turbulent times.
Very interesting!
A classic "I know better" pol
Everyone, including his allies, told him not to move aggressively towards Catholicism.
"I know better'.
If I could meet anyone in history it would be Charles ll
Charles II spent his exile travelling between European powers hoping one would assist him to invade England and give back to him what was his by divine right. While on his throne, he would spend his time looking to his cousin, Louis XIV of France, whose absolute authority allowed him to have on his death bed, his reign was that of endless wars. It was his grandiosity inflated by a Cardinal spiritual currency, who would in time and extravagance come to curse his family, Louis XVI, his wife and child were all killed by the people he cared so little for. Charles did do something cool, the Englishman's vest, that standard attire for the gentleman to wear and draw out their clocks like Sherlock Holmes. Charles was inspired to this inventive article of clothing by copying the Persians, the Persian vest affair. It was a scandal. He, Charles, was so embarrassed by its reception, because his cousin scuffed at it, the idea fell away. Louis XIV took that vest idea and designed the wardrobe for French male servants. Which is why you see today, Frenchmen of that sort of employment wear a vest. It was to mock the English. It wasn't until later the style became fashionable for both Englishmen and Frenchmen to wear.
All English history is viewed through a Protestant anti-Catholic prism. If Charles had not died a confessed Catholic we would have a very different view of him. He represents a huge problem to this historical shaping.His restoration represented a return to the Old Order and away from government by the people,so he cannot be portrayed as a tyrant but his achievements must be diminished as he was a Catholic. That is why he is remembered as `The Merry Monarch` who had a string of mistresses and presided over The Great Plague and The Great Fire of London- Instead of Britains first Enlightened Monarch who put science and reason ahead of myth and superstition. Founder of the Royal Society and the Greenwich Royal Observatory,he was also a huge support to Chritopher Wren in his rebuilding of London and St Paul`s only has its dome because of the Monarchs` support.
But his reign did see a return to more `enlightened` entertainment.Restoration literature and especially the re-opened theatres could be bawdy and a royal decree that only natural actors could appear on stage meant no more boys playing girls.Christmas and Maypole dancing were allowed and when he went racing with the royal court ,Newmarket became a virtual Las Vegas. (Charles is also the only member of the royal family to ride a winner in a grade 1 race when he won the Town Plate.)
But his greatest achievement was to steer a middle ground through one of the most difficult periods of Britains History.Civil War leaves deep and bitter division in its wake and that the country did not descend into anarchy is his great legacy.
Defender of the faith, the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury etc were all designation bestowed by Rome. The Church of England changed nothing from what was already established. It was Luther who promoted this religious nationalism in response to the over-reaching arm of Rome. The Vulgate (Vulgar) bible, was a term introduced by the Catholic Church who saw this nationalism of the faith into these various languages instead of the preferred Latin as an abomination. This objective view through a prism entirely based on religion is merely those in power abusing those who follow. Charles was conscientious of his situation having being recently restored with the aid of the Scottish general who fought with Cromwell. If Richard Cromwell, instead of Henry Cromwell was in power in England, England would be more of what it proclaim itself to be as a Christian nation. Instead of playing lip service, only hearing the word Christian being spoken in church and nowhere else, just like those in Rome. Charles' evident uneasiness allowed him to be ridiculed in an era when to mock a monarch was a death penalty. If Charles had not been removed from his office and returned to it by the will of a Scot, he would not have been so easy going as you would imagine. Charles actually wanted to copy the rebuilding of London after the fire to be more like Paris. He was ridiculed for the thought. Charles admired his cousin, Louis XIV, whose absolute authority he would rub into Charles eyes because, as a totalitarian the only counsel he looked to was the church. Charles is famous for saying a monarch should not be held accountable for his promises. We see the promises he made in Scotland only to then change his mind. This civil war you noted, is this the one where Charles fled from and left his Scottish army to face an English backlash. If you look to a man who abandons his soldiers in the midst of enemy territory to save his own skin. Perhaps, his legacy is to teach other monarchs to be more like him and not the ones who fight to the end with his army. Charles' position to parliament was to be what the monarchy is now, celebrities with titles.
Its crazy how they aren’t saying anything. There is so much history going on and they are staying in the surface
Give us Roderick!
the Stuarts did not end with James II. The family continued on with William+Mary and Anne. This title is really misleading and wrong.
yes, Mary Stuart, who should have been succeeded by Bonny Prince charlie, who was usurped by the Hanoverians. Interestingly BPC is buried in the Sistine chapel (st peters) Vatican city in an extremely expensive shrine fully paid for by Hanoverian family. I can only guess they felt some guilt.
Well, the title says the "last Stuart king" - and, William wasn't a Start and Mary was a queen. The title doesn't say the last Stuart - but, rather, the last Stuart "King".
King William lll was not a Stuart King, he was a usurper King from a foreign country and royal family. King James ll was truly the last Stuart born and blood King of the British.
Also 100 years after the Spanish Armada effort to defeat the English crown
YOO DOES ANYONE WHAT WAS HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PEASANTS AND NOBLES ???
the man who should have been our king he wore the royal red and green
The way prof Wiliams pronounce (or not) the letter "r". Is it a dialect, Sociolect or just a lisp? I'm not an anglophone so i'm just curius
It's an ideolect -- she has trouble pronouncing r.
The Catholic -- Protestant fight is just stupid. It's Christian versus Islam.
A Catholic king cannot rule over a Protestant country nor can he impose continental French style absolutism in constitutional parliamentary England its the equivalent of mixing oil and water. That was James’s and the Stuart dynasty as a whole fundamental blunder they never truly understood England or adapted to the English style of Kingship.
Yes, indeed. All english monarchs from Ethelbert to Henri VII should have been deposed ! 😀
The Stuart line are the only true monarchs of Britain! The current dynasty are foreign German usurpers.
Technically, it was Elizabeth Tudor's fundamental blunder.
Whig England is an innovation that led to the inhuman dead ends of atheism and social darwinism. Real England is Catholic England from Ethelbert to James II.
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I’m an American of Anglo-Irish Ancestry and Roman Catholic faith tradition. Partly because of this find myself particularly fascinated with the Stuart’s. I wouldn’t be surprised if my direct ancestors had some very strong Jacobite sympathies. I always wonder If Scotland elects to leave the U.K. and if they decided to form a constitutional monarchy would they invite the current Stuart heir to serve as their sovereign? It would be a fun twist of history.
The stories of those Stuarts, from Queen Mary onwards to Bonnie Prince Charlie, are always presented in a romantic light, mainly because of the personal tragedies that befell them. But the truth is that they were a bad lot and a disaster for the country. They were obstinate, opinionated and basically unsuited to their task. Scotland and the U.K. are well rid of them.
If you go to the UA-cam channel "Useful Charts", you will see that Prince Alois of Lichtenstein is the Jacobite heir. I don't think Scotland would want to share a royal family with Lichtenstein. Better to just be a republic.
@@frankteunissen6118 absolute tripe. The Stuarts were the ligitimate royal bloodline.
Was he really the first catholic monarch? I thought they were all catholic before King Edward VI.
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Wasn't elizabeth on the throne in 1580?
When that man inherited the castle
It was James the 6th who became King of Scotland and the. Became King James the first when he reigned over both Scotland and England after Elizabeth the first died.
@@lylarose2696 i know that..but thats not my point..
Was James so brave ? Perhaps in his younger days, but he was the author of his own downfall, and fled the country when the going became tough. Spencer is mistaken.
Or maybe loved his country enough to not want to be apart of a bother civil war
@@SI-cd7xs Have you any evidence to support what you suggest ?
Earl Spencer is Diana's brother
Think what she would look like now!
Henrietta Maria could be seen as causing the downfall of the Stuart reign. If only Chares II had had a legitimate offspring.
Parliament isn't dominant though.
Real king
It wasn't so much that he was a catholic, but that he still retained the idea that there was a "divine right of kings". I have come across vicars like that who thought that they had the divine right of God. Perhaps the hadn't read the bible. Unfortunately James hadn't understood either the impact of the English civil war, or that you only rule with the authority of the people. So when you try to change things (Compare what Trump thought he could do in 2020 to this situation) make sure of your power base. James did not have the support of both Houses of Parliament. He thought he could rule by absolute rule and replace anyone who dis agreed with him. His brother had already said " No-one is going to assassinate me to make your king, James" The general population of England had already formed an opinion of who he was. You oppose any one who opposes you, you replace anyone inoathority who doesn't agree with you. You put lots of people in prison just because you don't in your latest whim. Why doesn't this sound close to what almost what happened I the USA. Mind you, even now, a Trump appointee is till in place, possibly destroying the US postal service.
James 2 the first Catholic monarch...what??
James Vl of Scotland and lst of England was a Protestant King. He was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley.
@@bonniemagpie1552 I actually meant to write James 2, edited now!
However, my point was that James 2 was hardly the first Catholic monarch.
The last Catholic monarch
Mary 1 was a catholic. So, not the first catholic monarch.
@@creepofreakoHenry the 8th was a Catholic when ascended to the throne Some say he reverted on his deathbed. Then just the small matter of EVERY MONARCH before him being Catholic too
Hold on...John Wyn inherited the estate in 1580, during the reign of the earliest Stuart monarch, James I? That's just bad history. In 1580, Elizabeth I was Queen of England, and would be for another 23 years! James was indeed a monarch at this time, but of Scotland, rather than England. Also, he was far from the earliest Stuart monarch. There had been over half a dozen if them by the time he ascended to the throne.
I understand that Earl Spencer was Princess Diana's brother. I am not a fan of his and of course he always sides with the aristocracy. Yes, he does say that James was pig headed which cost him his thrown. It's the true historians I appreciate much more.
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There weren't 4 Stuart monarchs. There were 6 - they are leaving out Mary and Anne.
Exactly
More adverts than documentary. Every 3 minutes. It’s an absolute joke!
How about trying an adblock?
@@DarialKuznetsova Or paying for UA-cam premium?
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they don't paint a very pretty picture of my ancestors.
James II was deposed . William and Mary were king and queen. And England was free. Later there was a problem with the Old Pretender and Italian Prince Charlie (who was not bonnie by any means) leading revolts against the legal government, but the English and Scottish Protestants, who were in the majority, defeated these insurrections and chased the Stuarts back to their true home in Rome.
England was free? Didn't the Bank of England get started under William III? The only true freedom they had was what they retained from their Catholic past.
Imagine how different life would be today if religion had never existed
be more peaceful
@@cathygillis7083 indeed 🙂🐿
And humane
Not much different, I’d hazard to guess. It would just have been something different. Humans have fought long before religion had anything to do with it. Basically, territory.
Humans would find something else to fight over.
Well there are two glaring mistakes in the title for starters. First of all the King was officially King James II and VII, as noted by all reliable historical sources. He was James II in England and Ireland and James VII in Scotland, since at this point all three nations were separate with their own Parliaments. And second he was not the last Sovereign of the Stuart dynasty. Very sloppy presentation, please pay attention!
You pay attention. The title says last king. Which he was. The last Stuart was a Queen…………
The people didn't want a dictator wielding the divine right of kings, the reformation had begun the separation of church and state. That would have been reversed under the Stuarts if they had been left to reign.
This separation of church and state is an illusion. English Protestantism unlike Scottish Presbyterianism hierarchical offices were all held by noblemen or the rich. In England, these higher offices usually went to the third born male. The first male would inherit the title and earn a seat in the House of Lords. The second male would find employment in the military, his rank bought and if there were others that male would find himself thrown into a clerical role. How can you establish a system which separates church and state then say only a member of one faith may hold power. A true separation of church and state is a leader who can be anything he or she wanted and still hold the highest office. The separation is the ability of the person in office to separate his religious faith from his office. Remember, since history is written by the victor as per Churchill's recommendation. Parliament overthrew the monarchy and installed another they can control. Parliament is therefore left to say, they were right and this king was wrong. All of these kings ruled by divine right and none of them ruled divinely. Warmongers,homosexuals, you name it.
Making the king the head of the Church was the opposite of separating church and State.
@@mr.smoothchild5354 ; If Catholic James ll didn't brutally take Lord Monmouth's head off, we would have seen a direct lineage of Protestant Kings to this very day. Richard Walter John Montague Douglas Scott The 10th Duke of Buccleuch would be King today. The Queen does recognize him and for a time he was Scotlands largest land owner. There is no proof that King Charles II didn't marry Lucy Walters or maybe there is and it is kept very much a secret. I personally feel The throne belonged to Protestant Lord Monmouth upon King Charles II 's death. History would have looked a little different.
I'll take the Stuart's over the Tudor's any day. I'll never understand why men think war is a good thing
Nor will any man with a sound mind. War is awful and we shall ever strive to avoid it.
@@mateuszjokiel2813 Because war is full of suspense and intrigue, that's why the Plantagenets were the greatest dynasty of all.
@@pr-tj5by Yeah. Tell that to the peasants taxed out of their minds and men-at-arms slaughtered in the mud of France. Don't get me wrong, I love learning about warfare of the period, as I do about the wars themselves. But the human aspect of it is too often completely forgotten. As I said, war is awful.
@@mateuszjokiel2813 Everyone suffered till the turn of the 20th century, you should watch Dan Jones The Plantaganets
I’m not a fan of the acted scenes....
King James’ daughters look identical to him! 😂
You mean James VII?
don't mind me, just doing absolutely nothing wrong, minding my own biz....
The thumbnail for this video reminds me of the meme of the dog in the burning house that’s thinks everything is fine.
this guy was the legit king and was illegally overthrown in an act of anti-catholic hatred
This makes me cranky. In the first minute she says this dude inherited his estate in 1580, during the reign of James I. This is timeline for gods sake. Just sloppy editing. And PS i dont like her outfits, who is the queen here, you or james stuart? Sheesh.
To describe this as an inside coup rather than a foreign take over is rather silly: what would the MP's have done if William didn't want to come? If they could overthrow James, why not do it themselves and then invite William? It's as if I were to request a friend to come over to remove a wasp nest from my attic, and after he's done it and left my house I proclaim I actually removed the nest myself by 'inviting' someone to do it. Also, William was the main instigator behind the enterprise, not the parliament. He had been amassing his troops before the supposed invitation was sent to him, and he had sent a letter to the MP´s before to send him this invitation so he could be seen as a liberator by the English.
James II was a hero and the last legitimate ruler of England.
Hear hear!
@@Stsebastian8900 Edward 6th was the last true ruler of England.
I am orthodox friend so I would say the last king was in the Goodwin king Harold and in the Wessex dynasty before that papist Norman invasion that massacred our people. Still I have much love for the royal Scottish house of King James in their struggle
@@Stsebastian8900 youre just another heretic lol
@@Stsebastian8900 the normans were catholic just as the founders of england were
King James IV is my 14th great grandfather, and Princess Diana is my 11th cousin
WOW!!!
So you must be related distantly to Churchill, princess Di is descended from John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. Englands greatest general never lost a battle.
What d'ya want...a royal bloody medal?!? 😉🤣
@@dondodr Churchill is my 8th cousin 3x removed on my mother's side.
@@user-dn3ut9tw2x No, but the keys to Windsor Palace would be alright lol