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William Duke of Gloucester's ill-health was due to hydrocephalus which was caused by his contracting meningitis at birth, or shortly after. Meningitis is a bacterial infection - nothing to do with in-breeding!
@@gillianrimmer7733 The could have hidden the religion of one of the 41 people that were passed over for George I and had a Monarch that was British and not some kraut.
Wow... Imagine you're dying, feeling your body and organs slowly shutting down one by one, and yet your husband's main concern is claiming his "conjugal rights" one last time as you take your final breath. I'm mortified 😨
1:00 “No one wanted to see her suffer more tragedies.” Although this sentiment of people wanting the best for Anne is true, the implication that people (including Anne herself) did not want her to become pregnant again and have a living heir of her own body is not true. I’m currently reading “Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion” by Anne Somerset, and Somerset presents a host of evidence that at the beginning of Anne’s reign many courtiers would say directly to Anne that they hoped she would become pregnant again and have children who would live and succeed her. Anne herself told her close confidant Sarah Churchill in June 1703 she yearned for “the inexpressible blessing of another child, for though I do not flatter myself with the thoughts of it, I would leave no reasonable thing undone that might be a means towards it.” As well, a contributing reason (out of several) as to why Anne never invited any member of the Hanover family over so they could learn how to run the kingdom as an heir would, is that Anne desperately wanted and hoped she would conceive again and have a surviving child who would succeed her. (Sarah Churchill expressed a very blunt but realistic response (in true Sarah Churchill fashion) to this by saying that Anne’s view “proceeded more from her pride…than that she could really expect children, though she was not forty, because she had had before seventeen dead ones.”) All of this is to get to the main point that Anne saw the Act of Settlement as a necessary insurance policy, given that as of July 1700 she had no living heirs of her body and the Jacobite threat was far too large to not explicitly write into law a plan that insured a Protestant succession, regardless of her future reproductive hopes (which unfortunately would remain just that, hopes, as Anne would never conceive again after Gloucester’s death). I highly recommend “Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion” btw! Although it can be very dry at parts, Somerset has meticulously researched so much of Anne’s life and reign, and it is incredibly informative.
One VERY important thing to remember is that Sophia and her children were the LAST Protestant descendants of James VI and I available. If Sophia had never been born, or died earlier, or she and her children had become Catholic, there would have been an even bigger mess - the potential dissolution of the Union of the Crowns, as there would have been no eligible Protestant descendants from the marriage James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor which ultimately created that Union. The potential heir to the Scottish throne in that case would have been the 4th Duke of Hamilton (his mother, the 3rd Duchess, had resigned all offices and claims to him in 1698), while the potential heir to the English throne would have been a bit trickier, but likely would have been the descendants of Katherine Grey in the person of the 3rd Earl of Ailesbury. The Scots, realizing this, had already made noises about dissolving the Union upon Anne's eventual death, but the financial difficulties of the kingdom (mostly due the disastrous Darien Scheme) basically forced them to vote of the actual Act of Union in 1707. The Duke of Hamilton, who could have done more to oppose the Union (and thus potentially gain the Scottish crown), was a poor campaigner against it, and thus the Act of Union passed in Scotland and came into affect.
@@thomasrinschler6783 we would have had a Union of the Crowns earlier if Queen Margaret, Maid of Norway would have lived. She would have married Edward II had she lived in accordance to the arrangement between Edward I and Eric II of Norway. She was the last descendant of Alexander III of Scotland.
@@matthew_983 They are the descendants of Mary Queen of Scots. It was weird they were protestant for a while but ultimately it was because of the Civil War. They all escaped to France and married Catholics
@@Junbug92 No. When the William Seymour 3rd Duke of Somerset died without issue, the Dukedom went to his uncle, as it was only inheritable by males, but the claim to the throne, which was and is inheritable by women, went to his sister Elizabeth, the mother of the Charles Bruce 3rd Earl of Ailesbury.
All i can say is, thanks for modern science, medicine, and vaccines! So many in this video died of smallpox or other infections that can easily be prevented or cured now. What a curse it was to be a royal female in the late 17th century!
It's astonishing to realise how many times the line of the British monarchy has been broken. The violation of Henry VIII's will while choosing Elizabeth I 's successor, the Jacobite succession and this, the Act of Settlement, 1701. Although the bloodline continues to this day, the rules of primogeniture have been breached several times.
I’m surprised the rules lasted as long as it did. Personally I think the system they had before 1066 was a better one for choosing a new monarch. Could have avoided a lot of issues with child monarchs.
@@corvus1374 But in my opinion Henry II was in fact the rightful heir. Stephen usurped the throne from Matilda. Henry I, Matilda's father, had all the nobles and barons swear loyalty to Matilda as his heir in Salisbury Cathedral after his only son's death.
I can't imagine the relief they felt when they found someone that checked all criteria 😮 and without internet, it wasn't a easy job to check everyone and every descents
I find kinda of a shame Sofia didn't get to be Queen, how a healthy and lively 80 years old lady would regin sounds like very interesting thing to study. Had she been Queen she would have for sure been one of the most interesting and unique monarchs in British history
@@lipingrahman6648 Never say never, maybe she died when she did just because of a stroke of bad luck. Considering the timing of Anne's letter and the following bad luck with the storm, if those two things hadn't happen when they did maybe she would have lived for a few more years.
@theelitemanticore151 It's also tragic, considering how it feels every single time a queen WILL inherent the throne, something happens to snatch that future away
@theelitemanticore151 It's frustrating to me, feels like every single time a queen WILL only inherit the throne & be an actual GOOD RULER, something comes along that just...snatches that future away 💔 😢
Liselotte once said that it would have been better if she‘d been born male. Tho as her son became regent she did not want to be included in politics in any way and retired to her favourite chateau. I def recommend reading about her because she was such a sharp tounged savage who is the main reporter of the going ons in Versailles.
William III of Orange was next in the line of succession behind Anne anyway, so when his wife Mary died, he kept the throne. The current Catholic claimant is the Duke of Bavaria, followed by his younger brother, whose heir is the wife of the heir to the throne of Liechtenstein.
Another tuesday another GREAT video with Lindsay! You're the Queen of narration and history! All those AI showd have NOTHING on you! Keep up the good work! And the Hanovers gave us Queen victoria! Thanks for this!
I still feel bad for George I’s wife (Sophia Dorothea of Celle). Living a miserable life of imprisonment for 30 years just because she wanted to be loved by her husband. 💔
Not to be that guy, but Louisa Maria turned down Carl/Charles XII of Sweden, not Carl/Charles II. 4:45 That being said, engagement does help with the algorithm, so hopefully it gets you some more views. Great video as usual!
More than that, though the idea was floated by intermediaries, he never proposed. She was Catholic and Charles’s father had extracted a deathbed promise from him that he’d never marry a non-Lutheran. Aside from the fact that Charles had a few ideas of his own and never seemed interested in anyone other than Sophie Hedvig of Denmark.
Hey Lindsay! I'm so happy to hear your next group trip is both Germany and Austria. My family just moved to Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany a few months ago and the country is just how I remembered in my early childhood. Make sure to try some Spaghetti Ice Cream when you can!
I hear mention of Poles occasionally woven into these stories but, as a (half) Pole I would love to hear your takes on (what I understand to be) the chaotic geo-political history of Poland.
The Act of Settlement of 1701 only applied to the thrones of England and Ireland. In response the Scottish Parliament in the Act for the Security of the Kingdom reserved the right to make arrangements for the succession to the throne of Scotland. It was the Act of Union in 1707 that made the Act of Settlement govern the succession of the British crown. It's a technicality, but England and Scotland were separate realms ruled by a common sovereign from 1603 until 1707.
Very nice work as usual. However, James Francis Edward didn't die at 55. He lived until the age of 77. Also, Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia wasn't Anne Marie of Orléans' uncle, and they had three daughters before the first son, not four. Those people in the line of succession were sure scandalous, huh?
Very IRONICALLY, Princess Caroline Matilda Of Great Britain,Queen Consort Of Denmark And Norway Shared Her Great Grandmother's Fate,Her Husband King Christian VII Of Denmark Imprisoned Her For Her Affair With The German Physician Johann Friedrich Struensee,She Died At The Age Of 23 In Celle, Hanover At The Same Prison Her Great Grandmother Died,A Very Sad, Tragic Fate. 😒😞☹️🙁
I'd say George brought much needed stability to the British throne. His descendants still hold the British monarchy to this day. He stood up to an expansionist France and he accepted Constitutional monarchy, a precedent that the British monarchy still importantly holds today too.
To this day. The Parliament and English law has shrunk from declaring the Old Pretender spurious. But because George and me are Protestant I'm going with George so we gain Queen Victoria and lose the Thirteen Colonies!
Yes. I hadn't realised that he could have taken the throne if he had become formally Protestant. As his sisters Mary and Anne grew up as Protestant and so qualified, it is the more surprising that James was so insistent on not converting. If he had done and accepted the constitutional status of the Act of Settlement and the Act of Union which extended it to Scotland, we would probably have the House of Stuart as the reigning House of 'the United Kingdom and other Realms' in 2024.
Here's a fun drinking game with this video. Take a shot whenever:- 1. A wife or her husband have lots of extra-marital affairs. 2. A husband turns out to be gay/bisexual. 3. A husband gets syphilis (take two if he then passes it on to his wife). 4. A husband dies in a hunting accident. 5. A wife has a really, really large number of children. 6. There's a war that involves the Succession to a European country. If you make it 20% of the way through, I'll be impressed.
If James Francis Edward Stuart had become king, here's how the succession could have gone: William III (1689-1702) James VIII & III (1702-1766) Charles III (1766-1788) Henry XI & I (1788-1807) Charles IV (1807-1819) Victor (1819-1824) Mary II (1824-1840) Francis I (1840-1875) Mary III (1875-1919) Rupert (1919-1955) Albert (1955-1996) Francis II (1996-)
They Were All REJECTED For Their Catholicism. WOW, That's An Interesting List Of 41,Those Potential British Monarchs!!! The Alternative History Possibilities Are Endless!!!🤯😲😯🙂🤷🏾♂️
What an excellent video! I have been trying to find a good book covering in detail the background to the Act of Settlement, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be one; can anyone help in that respect? This video certainly covers some of the gaps very well, although other sources suggest that Sophia was even further down the line of succession than is suggested here. The mini-biographies of the people ahead of her in the line are fascinating. I wonder if all those in the line were aware that the British King and Parliament were casting an eye over them? If so, at one level it is a testament to their Catholic faith that none of them took the opportunistic/pragmatic approach of switching to Protestantism for the purpose of securing the British crown; all of us know people who have switched religions for practical reasons such as marriage. And yet that same apparent strength of faith didn't stop the rampant sexual immorality that characterised so many of those in the line; there's a good deal of irony in all of this.
I imagine many of them were passed over because of both Catholic-ness AND because they were Hapsburgs. Honestly, even though the Georges weren’t the greatest rulers, England probably dodged several bullets by choosing Sophia of Hanover and her descendants.
I have to command you for digging up all of these lives, marriages and deaths. It is quite an accomplishment. I however have to correct you, since I'm Swedish and know the Swedish royal lineage almost by heart, you missed a X. It was Karl XII who proposed, not Karl II. There newer was a Karl II it belongs to the mythology the Swedes made to claim their old right to the country
I'm had no idea that Lisolette could have been a possible monarch! She's an interesting character for sure; I almost think she deserves a video of her own.
Hmm ... Not having the Stuarts reigning, let alone ruling, in UK; would not have been a good thing for the UK. Although Mary II and Anne were not that bad (or as selfish, or bespotted with the idea of their divine right to rule as James I, II, and Charles I and II)
Interesting. Fine research - kinda like actually untangling the Gordian Knot instead of slicing through it with a sword. George I, though deficient in English, was fluent in French, which language several of his ministers spoke, thus maintaining a channel of communication - although by then, most of the monarch's powers had been assumed by Parliament.
It would have been really interesting if Sofia was on the throne for a couple of years in her 80s. Also Charles wouldn't have been the oldest to succeed to the throne!
It was a mess of a succession for sure, but at least the general incompetence of the Georges hastened the transfer of real political power to Parliament. I feel certain that aside from not wanting another Catholic monarch, Parliament didn't want to deal with someone brought up in one of the absolutist courts like France or Spain.
@ 8:17 Philip V and Maria Louisa Gabriella of Savoy had not 2 but 3 sons who became King of Spain: Louis I, Ferdinand VI and Charles III. Philip V abdicated in favour of Louis I in Janunary 1724 only to re-ascend to the throne in August, when his eldest son died. When Philip V himself died in 1746, he was succeeded by Ferdinand VI, who reigned until his death in 1759, when the throne passed to his brother Charles III until 1788.
OMG, he insisted on his nightly martial relations as she lay dying, and after her death rattle took her he had to be pulled off of her lifeless corpse!!
And then if the boy can survive diseases in childhood to even make it to adulthood. Like measles, smallpox, pneumonia, plague…it’s a miracle if they survive
It is so fun! You have lots of friendly people to do things with, and time to be alone if you want. It's a wonderful, supportive option for first time travelers!
@@LindsayHoliday i missed the one for England unfortunately. But it looks fun! I'll have to dig deeper. I like the fact that you do these group trips with viewers. Such a wonderful idea!
I noticed an error; the Swedish king mentioned as a potential suitor for Louisa Maria is not Karl II, but king Karl XII (although I'm honestly surprised if he actually considered it given that she was 1) catholic and 2) he seemed very disinterested in marriage in general).
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Are you able to correct the typo in the thumbnail?
William Duke of Gloucester's ill-health was due to hydrocephalus which was caused by his contracting meningitis at birth, or shortly after. Meningitis is a bacterial infection - nothing to do with in-breeding!
They could have hid one of the 41's religion and carried on, raising their child in the Church of England.....
@@kevinjewell233 , what's 41s religion?
@@gillianrimmer7733 The could have hidden the religion of one of the 41 people that were passed over for George I and had a Monarch that was British and not some kraut.
Wow... Imagine you're dying, feeling your body and organs slowly shutting down one by one, and yet your husband's main concern is claiming his "conjugal rights" one last time as you take your final breath. I'm mortified 😨
Doing the ad right after that feels in bad taste.
Yeah that’s horrific wtf
@@twinkiefaith1311 Right? I was kinda just left in shock and silence while the ad rolled... Excuse me, sorry? That poor woman??? 😭
I was so shocked 🥲🥲🥲😨😨😨...
@@Mykxfyre-sims😔😔😔💔💔😨😰
"He left her a parting gift: syphilis." The deadpan delivery for all these terrible people's awful deeds is one of my favourite parts of this channel.
“[she] enjoy 30 years of widowhood…” Lindsay, you’re killing me with your witty remarks today 😂
1:00 “No one wanted to see her suffer more tragedies.”
Although this sentiment of people wanting the best for Anne is true, the implication that people (including Anne herself) did not want her to become pregnant again and have a living heir of her own body is not true.
I’m currently reading “Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion” by Anne Somerset, and Somerset presents a host of evidence that at the beginning of Anne’s reign many courtiers would say directly to Anne that they hoped she would become pregnant again and have children who would live and succeed her.
Anne herself told her close confidant Sarah Churchill in June 1703 she yearned for “the inexpressible blessing of another child, for though I do not flatter myself with the thoughts of it, I would leave no reasonable thing undone that might be a means towards it.”
As well, a contributing reason (out of several) as to why Anne never invited any member of the Hanover family over so they could learn how to run the kingdom as an heir would, is that Anne desperately wanted and hoped she would conceive again and have a surviving child who would succeed her. (Sarah Churchill expressed a very blunt but realistic response (in true Sarah Churchill fashion) to this by saying that Anne’s view “proceeded more from her pride…than that she could really expect children, though she was not forty, because she had had before seventeen dead ones.”)
All of this is to get to the main point that Anne saw the Act of Settlement as a necessary insurance policy, given that as of July 1700 she had no living heirs of her body and the Jacobite threat was far too large to not explicitly write into law a plan that insured a Protestant succession, regardless of her future reproductive hopes (which unfortunately would remain just that, hopes, as Anne would never conceive again after Gloucester’s death).
I highly recommend “Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion” btw! Although it can be very dry at parts, Somerset has meticulously researched so much of Anne’s life and reign, and it is incredibly informative.
One VERY important thing to remember is that Sophia and her children were the LAST Protestant descendants of James VI and I available. If Sophia had never been born, or died earlier, or she and her children had become Catholic, there would have been an even bigger mess - the potential dissolution of the Union of the Crowns, as there would have been no eligible Protestant descendants from the marriage James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor which ultimately created that Union. The potential heir to the Scottish throne in that case would have been the 4th Duke of Hamilton (his mother, the 3rd Duchess, had resigned all offices and claims to him in 1698), while the potential heir to the English throne would have been a bit trickier, but likely would have been the descendants of Katherine Grey in the person of the 3rd Earl of Ailesbury. The Scots, realizing this, had already made noises about dissolving the Union upon Anne's eventual death, but the financial difficulties of the kingdom (mostly due the disastrous Darien Scheme) basically forced them to vote of the actual Act of Union in 1707. The Duke of Hamilton, who could have done more to oppose the Union (and thus potentially gain the Scottish crown), was a poor campaigner against it, and thus the Act of Union passed in Scotland and came into affect.
@@thomasrinschler6783 we would have had a Union of the Crowns earlier if Queen Margaret, Maid of Norway would have lived. She would have married Edward II had she lived in accordance to the arrangement between Edward I and Eric II of Norway. She was the last descendant of Alexander III of Scotland.
why did the whole family tranformed into catholic but sophia and her children？
@@matthew_983 They are the descendants of Mary Queen of Scots. It was weird they were protestant for a while but ultimately it was because of the Civil War. They all escaped to France and married Catholics
I think the English heir would have been the Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset
@@Junbug92 No. When the William Seymour 3rd Duke of Somerset died without issue, the Dukedom went to his uncle, as it was only inheritable by males, but the claim to the throne, which was and is inheritable by women, went to his sister Elizabeth, the mother of the Charles Bruce 3rd Earl of Ailesbury.
All i can say is, thanks for modern science, medicine, and vaccines! So many in this video died of smallpox or other infections that can easily be prevented or cured now. What a curse it was to be a royal female in the late 17th century!
It's astonishing to realise how many times the line of the British monarchy has been broken. The violation of Henry VIII's will while choosing Elizabeth I 's successor, the Jacobite succession and this, the Act of Settlement, 1701.
Although the bloodline continues to this day, the rules of primogeniture have been breached several times.
Don't forget Henry II
I’m surprised the rules lasted as long as it did. Personally I think the system they had before 1066 was a better one for choosing a new monarch. Could have avoided a lot of issues with child monarchs.
@@corvus1374 But in my opinion Henry II was in fact the rightful heir.
Stephen usurped the throne from Matilda. Henry I, Matilda's father, had all the nobles and barons swear loyalty to Matilda as his heir in Salisbury Cathedral after his only son's death.
Any one of the myriad of well-educated women would have been miles better than George.
@@WLDB In that case, Mary I's tyrannical reign would have been 11 years straight!!! Protestants would have been wiped out from Britain 😂
I can't imagine the relief they felt when they found someone that checked all criteria 😮 and without internet, it wasn't a easy job to check everyone and every descents
I find kinda of a shame Sofia didn't get to be Queen, how a healthy and lively 80 years old lady would regin sounds like very interesting thing to study. Had she been Queen she would have for sure been one of the most interesting and unique monarchs in British history
What’s a shame is that you didn’t watch a video a while back of how she participated in a plot to assassinate Queen Anne
Yeah, could imagine 2 consecutive Queens in the history of the UK
She would have been queen for a year or two, maybe just a few months even.
@@lipingrahman6648 Never say never, maybe she died when she did just because of a stroke of bad luck. Considering the timing of Anne's letter and the following bad luck with the storm, if those two things hadn't happen when they did maybe she would have lived for a few more years.
She could have been *Sofia The First* (pun intended)
Requesting a video on Sophia, Electress of Hanover! Had she survived, she would have been an excellent queen.
Just like Princess Charlotte of Wales, she was *A QUEEN WHO NEVER WAS* 🥹
@theelitemanticore151
It's also tragic, considering how it feels every single time a queen WILL inherent the throne, something happens to snatch that future away
@theelitemanticore151
It's frustrating to me, feels like every single time a queen WILL only inherit the throne & be an actual GOOD RULER, something comes along that just...snatches that future away 💔 😢
Ok
She had the advantage of knowing at least some English.
Please make a video about Grand Duchy of Lithuania. We need more videos about the rest of Europe, not only Western part.
Yes!
Poland too. Their history is nuts
@@pckrichards7980Poland automatically gets included, when talking about GDL. We shared 400 years of history together after all. 😊
I say that had Sophia not died or had Elizabeth Charlotte been Protestant, they would've made excellent rulers
Liselotte once said that it would have been better if she‘d been born male.
Tho as her son became regent she did not want to be included in politics in any way and retired to her favourite chateau. I def recommend reading about her because she was such a sharp tounged savage who is the main reporter of the going ons in Versailles.
Or had there were no religions... The world would have been so much better, less division and more governed by rationale.
William III of Orange was next in the line of succession behind Anne anyway, so when his wife Mary died, he kept the throne.
The current Catholic claimant is the Duke of Bavaria, followed by his younger brother, whose heir is the wife of the heir to the throne of Liechtenstein.
Now that's what I called 'till death do us part' - that poor woman!
Hey! Would you ever do a video on the Māori monarchy and the new Māori queen??
That would be fascinating! I know nothing of Maori royalty, but I'd like to!
This is a great idea! The Maori are a fascinating people!
You're SO CLOSE to 1 million Lindsay! All well deserved! Love learning with you!
Another tuesday another GREAT video with Lindsay! You're the Queen of narration and history! All those AI showd have NOTHING on you! Keep up the good work! And the Hanovers gave us Queen victoria! Thanks for this!
So close to 1 mil Lindsay. You deserve it
I love these videos 😄 I’d be curious to watch a video on all the royals who died from smallpox!
I still feel bad for George I’s wife (Sophia Dorothea of Celle). Living a miserable life of imprisonment for 30 years just because she wanted to be loved by her husband. 💔
Hi Lindsay, can you please make more ancient history videos please. those are my favourite videos of your.
Not to be that guy, but Louisa Maria turned down Carl/Charles XII of Sweden, not Carl/Charles II. 4:45 That being said, engagement does help with the algorithm, so hopefully it gets you some more views. Great video as usual!
More than that, though the idea was floated by intermediaries, he never proposed. She was Catholic and Charles’s father had extracted a deathbed promise from him that he’d never marry a non-Lutheran. Aside from the fact that Charles had a few ideas of his own and never seemed interested in anyone other than Sophie Hedvig of Denmark.
counting down the days until the next lindsay holiday upload!!
Hey Lindsay! I'm so happy to hear your next group trip is both Germany and Austria. My family just moved to Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany a few months ago and the country is just how I remembered in my early childhood. Make sure to try some Spaghetti Ice Cream when you can!
I hear mention of Poles occasionally woven into these stories but, as a (half) Pole I would love to hear your takes on (what I understand to be) the chaotic geo-political history of Poland.
Lindsay your research is flawless and your presentation is freaking AMAZING!!! Thank you
Love English history and this is my favorite channel for it! You never dissapoint! Hearth please
The Act of Settlement of 1701 only applied to the thrones of England and Ireland. In response the Scottish Parliament in the Act for the Security of the Kingdom reserved the right to make arrangements for the succession to the throne of Scotland. It was the Act of Union in 1707 that made the Act of Settlement govern the succession of the British crown. It's a technicality, but England and Scotland were separate realms ruled by a common sovereign from 1603 until 1707.
I remember when you had less than 100K. You're doing amazing Lindsay, I'm so happy for you.
Very nice work as usual. However, James Francis Edward didn't die at 55. He lived until the age of 77. Also, Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia wasn't Anne Marie of Orléans' uncle, and they had three daughters before the first son, not four. Those people in the line of succession were sure scandalous, huh?
Yes, she's certainly included the spiciest details about these claimants, she knows her audience ;)
Also Charlotte d’ Orleans died almost 20 years before her husband
Hello Lindsay Thank you for the video ❤
As a doctor, I can confirm that if I had a patient who lost 16 babies wanting to get pregnant again, I'd be shitting my pants over it
And here I had just got up from my bed to royal tea
8:18 Oh, no! That makes my stomach hurt! Poor woman.
How many would've been if not this choice? Doubtless, Elizabeth's dynasty would've never come to be
Very IRONICALLY, Princess Caroline Matilda Of Great Britain,Queen Consort Of Denmark And Norway Shared Her Great Grandmother's Fate,Her Husband King Christian VII Of Denmark Imprisoned Her For Her Affair With The German Physician Johann Friedrich Struensee,She Died At The Age Of 23 In Celle, Hanover At The Same Prison Her Great Grandmother Died,A Very Sad, Tragic Fate. 😒😞☹️🙁
i have been wanting know who were the “40 so closer relation”!!! my curiosity has been sated!!!!!
Were the people outraged or just the “quality” whose ancestors benefited from the dissolution of the monasteries?
I'd say George brought much needed stability to the British throne. His descendants still hold the British monarchy to this day.
He stood up to an expansionist France and he accepted Constitutional monarchy, a precedent that the British monarchy still importantly holds today too.
Kinda funny how much of the french aristocracy had a claim to the english throne this time
British throne
All that hydrocephalus...all that congenital syphilis.
Thanks for the upload during my September 2024 birthday month!
8:20 yikes!
I mean like..why😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂.was he that ho***y??
😂 (lmao) OMG!…. And you thought your family line is one helluva freakin mess. My favorite of these royal misfits is the Werewolf Dude @ 16:42
Didn't know that the French Bourbons had Jacobite blood, interesting. This makes them closer to Prince William than I thought.
A warming pan? Either that's one hell of a conspiracy theory or it was one mighty big warming pan.
History Calling has a good video on how unlikely it was.
To this day. The Parliament and English law has shrunk from declaring the Old Pretender spurious. But because George and me are Protestant I'm going with George so we gain Queen Victoria and lose the Thirteen Colonies!
5:51 Anne Marie d'Orleans and Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia were 2nd cousins. They were great grandchildren of Henry IV of France and Marie de Medici.
Also Anne Marie was the 1st cousin of Queen Anne.
Love your videos, but maybe the sponsorship shouldn’t have been directly after *THAT* story?
Imagine if the almost James the III had converted.
History would've been very different
@@IamSnowbird OR Queen Margaret of Scotland.
@@jacquesgotbacque dIfFeReNt
Yes. I hadn't realised that he could have taken the throne if he had become formally Protestant. As his sisters Mary and Anne grew up as Protestant and so qualified, it is the more surprising that James was so insistent on not converting. If he had done and accepted the constitutional status of the Act of Settlement and the Act of Union which extended it to Scotland, we would probably have the House of Stuart as the reigning House of 'the United Kingdom and other Realms' in 2024.
Here's a fun drinking game with this video. Take a shot whenever:-
1. A wife or her husband have lots of extra-marital affairs.
2. A husband turns out to be gay/bisexual.
3. A husband gets syphilis (take two if he then passes it on to his wife).
4. A husband dies in a hunting accident.
5. A wife has a really, really large number of children.
6. There's a war that involves the Succession to a European country.
If you make it 20% of the way through, I'll be impressed.
Can you make a video about the Brazilian monarchy? Perhaps their royal family!!
House of Braganza
Can you make videos about French Queens? Like Marie de Medici and Maria Theresa of Spain?
She did
Ah, Lindsey! How I’ve missed these videos!
The daughters of Joseph I was robbed ; they should’ve inherited the Habsburg throne.
14:04 now this was a wilddd one 😅
If James Francis Edward Stuart had become king, here's how the succession could have gone:
William III (1689-1702)
James VIII & III (1702-1766)
Charles III (1766-1788)
Henry XI & I (1788-1807)
Charles IV (1807-1819)
Victor (1819-1824)
Mary II (1824-1840)
Francis I (1840-1875)
Mary III (1875-1919)
Rupert (1919-1955)
Albert (1955-1996)
Francis II (1996-)
They Were All REJECTED For Their Catholicism. WOW, That's An Interesting List Of 41,Those Potential British Monarchs!!! The Alternative History Possibilities Are Endless!!!🤯😲😯🙂🤷🏾♂️
I literally laugh out loud every video when that sneaky warming pan makes an appearance!
I’m loving your video day day after day💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
There were a lot of widows enjoying widowhood...
What an excellent video! I have been trying to find a good book covering in detail the background to the Act of Settlement, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be one; can anyone help in that respect? This video certainly covers some of the gaps very well, although other sources suggest that Sophia was even further down the line of succession than is suggested here. The mini-biographies of the people ahead of her in the line are fascinating. I wonder if all those in the line were aware that the British King and Parliament were casting an eye over them? If so, at one level it is a testament to their Catholic faith that none of them took the opportunistic/pragmatic approach of switching to Protestantism for the purpose of securing the British crown; all of us know people who have switched religions for practical reasons such as marriage. And yet that same apparent strength of faith didn't stop the rampant sexual immorality that characterised so many of those in the line; there's a good deal of irony in all of this.
Britain: “ding dong your religion is wrong”
If Netflix needs some good plots for period dramas, they only need to watch this video!
I imagine many of them were passed over because of both Catholic-ness AND because they were Hapsburgs. Honestly, even though the Georges weren’t the greatest rulers, England probably dodged several bullets by choosing Sophia of Hanover and her descendants.
9:03 The gift that keeps on giving…
I have to command you for digging up all of these lives, marriages and deaths. It is quite an accomplishment. I however have to correct you, since I'm Swedish and know the Swedish royal lineage almost by heart, you missed a X. It was Karl XII who proposed, not Karl II. There newer was a Karl II it belongs to the mythology the Swedes made to claim their old right to the country
I'm had no idea that Lisolette could have been a possible monarch! She's an interesting character for sure; I almost think she deserves a video of her own.
Hmm ... Not having the Stuarts reigning, let alone ruling, in UK; would not have been a good thing for the UK. Although Mary II and
Anne were not that bad (or as selfish, or bespotted with the idea of their divine right to rule as James I, II, and Charles I and II)
Thoughts for Maria Luisa 😢 men are nasty 🤮
Interesting. Fine research - kinda like actually untangling the Gordian Knot instead of slicing through it with a sword. George I, though deficient in English, was fluent in French, which language several of his ministers spoke, thus maintaining a channel of communication - although by then, most of the monarch's powers had been assumed by Parliament.
My favorite time of the week
It would have been really interesting if Sofia was on the throne for a couple of years in her 80s. Also Charles wouldn't have been the oldest to succeed to the throne!
@8:26 and men still wonder why we choose the bear.
I mean there isn’t really evidence to suggest this even happened
I wish I can come join the tour to germany but unfortunately I cant join😔😢
8:23, wait what??
If you do another video like this, Queen Elizabeth I's potential successors would be cool to talk about.
Thamk you!!!
It was a mess of a succession for sure, but at least the general incompetence of the Georges hastened the transfer of real political power to Parliament. I feel certain that aside from not wanting another Catholic monarch, Parliament didn't want to deal with someone brought up in one of the absolutist courts like France or Spain.
I would like to know significantly more about Henri Jules' clinical lycanthropy and the lives of his tiny, hunched little daughters.
22:33 The Confederate General, P.G.T. Beauregard is a distant relative of Francesco III I believe
Where can I get this tree ❤
@ 8:17 Philip V and Maria Louisa Gabriella of Savoy had not 2 but 3 sons who became King of Spain: Louis I, Ferdinand VI and Charles III. Philip V abdicated in favour of Louis I in Janunary 1724 only to re-ascend to the throne in August, when his eldest son died. When Philip V himself died in 1746, he was succeeded by Ferdinand VI, who reigned until his death in 1759, when the throne passed to his brother Charles III until 1788.
Charles III was the son of Elisabeth Farnese of Parma not Maria Louisa Gabriella
@@BandileNkwanyana-v7s Thank you! Never realised that one of the three brothers had another mother
OMG, he insisted on his nightly martial relations as she lay dying, and after her death rattle took her he had to be pulled off of her lifeless corpse!!
What is remarkable is that none of this debate, potentially, even happens, if Catherine of Aragon gives birth to a healthy son...
And then if the boy can survive diseases in childhood to even make it to adulthood. Like measles, smallpox, pneumonia, plague…it’s a miracle if they survive
Anne has to be one of the most tragic monarchs
who else like Lindsay channell
Great video! So interesting!!
Hi Lindsay
1 step ahead of you Lindsay, I already play Midas Merge.
Drinking game: a shot for every time Lindsay says "married her/his cousin". Two shots for whenever someone gets syphilis.
that was an enjoyable romp through possible successions :-)
8:22 Excuse my French but what the fuck did I just hear???
Oooh! 29:59 that’d be an awesome birthday for me (May18)
who else like Lindsay
Being the first to watch the video feels like a reward ❤
Your voice is super unique, snotty, and also super smoothing for me.
I always want to travel overseas but am afraid. Your travels with a group sounds so much fun!!
It is so fun! You have lots of friendly people to do things with, and time to be alone if you want. It's a wonderful, supportive option for first time travelers!
@@LindsayHoliday i missed the one for England unfortunately. But it looks fun! I'll have to dig deeper. I like the fact that you do these group trips with viewers. Such a wonderful idea!
It's not "Lisolette" but Liselotte, a German short form for Elisabeth Charlotte
I noticed an error; the Swedish king mentioned as a potential suitor for Louisa Maria is not Karl II, but king Karl XII (although I'm honestly surprised if he actually considered it given that she was 1) catholic and 2) he seemed very disinterested in marriage in general).