I gotta say that after your previous comment on this, my headcanon for this is something like the following:
Mary: You were having an affair with Elizabeth Villiers! I saw you leaving her room late at night! William: I was totally not having an affair with her. We were exchanging diplomatic intelligence! Mary: Uh-huh, likely story. William: I mean, you know I couldn't have having an affair with her because... well... I prefer guys. Mary: You... what? Wait. This explains a lot. Like the way you were all over my cousin Jemmy. William: I mean, he's really hot. Don't deny it, you think he's really hot too. Mary: ...Hmm. Let's think about this a little more.
:) I can see that! BTW, Mary, like her younger sister Anne with Sarah Churchill, had a (female) childhood friend she was passionately attached to, Frances Apsley. Quoting wiki: From about the age of nine until her marriage, Mary wrote passionate letters to an older girl, Frances Apsley, the daughter of courtier Sir Allen Apsley. Mary signed herself 'Mary Clorine'; Apsley was 'Aurelia'. In time, Frances became uncomfortable with the correspondence, and replied more formally.
(Sister Anne and Sarah Jennings, the later Sarah Churchill, wrote to each other as Mrs. Morley (Anne) and Mrs. Freeman (Sarah), respectively.)
A case thus could be made that James the ultra Catholic managed to produce not one but two bi daughters, though of course that's speculative.
(FW: I would say I sympathize except I don't. Firstly, thankfully I died before learning I had not one, but two wretched sons, and secondly, I don't sympathize with goddam Papists. No Popery! P.S. I still think you should have made me your heir, William.)
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Mary: You were having an affair with Elizabeth Villiers! I saw you leaving her room late at night!
William: I was totally not having an affair with her. We were exchanging diplomatic intelligence!
Mary: Uh-huh, likely story.
William: I mean, you know I couldn't have having an affair with her because... well... I prefer guys.
Mary: You... what? Wait. This explains a lot. Like the way you were all over my cousin Jemmy.
William: I mean, he's really hot. Don't deny it, you think he's really hot too.
Mary: ...Hmm. Let's think about this a little more.
Re: Replies on Stuarts and treason and Monmouth
(Sister Anne and Sarah Jennings, the later Sarah Churchill, wrote to each other as Mrs. Morley (Anne) and Mrs. Freeman (Sarah), respectively.)
A case thus could be made that James the ultra Catholic managed to produce not one but two bi daughters, though of course that's speculative.
(FW: I would say I sympathize except I don't. Firstly, thankfully I died before learning I had not one, but two wretched sons, and secondly, I don't sympathize with goddam Papists. No Popery! P.S. I still think you should have made me your heir, William.)