The Stuarts

Taal: nld
Categorie: DOCUMENTAIRE

Documentary series which puts forward the case that the Stuarts, more than any other, were Britain's defining royal family. In the final programme, Clare Jackson looks at how the Stuarts were fatally divided by religion. After the Catholic James VII and II was deposed by protestant William of Orange in 1688, Britain became a constitutional monarchy. However, the so-called 1688 'Glorious Revolution' came at a price, as Scotland lost its sovereignty and became part of Great Britain in 1707,...