Re: William/Mary/James of Monmouth

Date: 2024-03-08 05:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] selenak
YES. You know this means I am going for the threesome AU as my headcanon now! With maybe bonus loyalty kink! :D

Naturally!

Now, in this AU, once James II has a Catholic son and William and Mary decide they need to invade... I guess this is where it becomes even more important that Jemmy took the oath to William and Mary. So he can tell anyone who is trying to use him as the focus of revolution that he can't because of his oath. In this AU is he part of the Glorious Revolution and they all live happily ever after?

I don't see why not? Incidentally, I see the University doesn't just have papers re: the 1745, but also of William's successful invasion of England and the Glorious Revolution, and not just anyone's, but those of the older of William's two bffs, Jan Willem Bentinck who ends up as William Bentinck, first Earl of Portland, here. (Btw, if his family name sounds vaguely familiar, I think it was one of his sons who was the disliked husband of the Countess Bentinck who shows up in Lehndorff's diaries (she of the "Mission: Seduce Heinrich!" fame) and was fangirled by teenage Sophie for riding astride like am and being generally cool.

Anyway, the Nottingham University doesn't just have the papers re: the Glorious Revolution, but also a timeline, listing of events leading up to this and most important players etc., in case you feel ever inclined to write a bit of a longer AU where Jemmy lives and gets to assist Mary in breaking the fifth commandment by deposing her Dad.

BTW: both Mary and Anne were seen as basically Goneril and Regan by the Jacobites for this, but as "The King's Touch" has Mary say to Jemmy, if it had been up to her father, she and Anne would never have existed. Given how he treated their mother. (Reminder, he first got her pregnant and married her, then because the Restoration happened belatedly tried to weasel out of it by the really low method of making his mates claim they, too, had had sex with Anne Hyde and could totally be the Dad and that's why the marriage wasn't valid until Charles put his foot down and made James stick to his promises and stop trying to ruin his wife's reputation. The baby in question was a boy who died in infancy, btw, Mary and Anne didn't arrive until later, and as Morgan has Mary point out, never would have at all if James had had his way. Not to mention that a slutshamed (based on lies; I don't think many people believed James' buddies on that one) and divorced Anne Hyde would probably have spent the rest of her life shut up in a country mansion somewhere.

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