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As you will know, this is the final episode on Mary of Modena,

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Episode 67, Mary of Modena, the Queen Over the Water.

History is written by the Victors, and nowhere is this clearer than in the glorious revolution.

What began as a group of recalcitrant English nobles requesting that a foreign prince come and take over their country, became a story of how a kingdom threw off the yoke of absolutism, oppression, and tyranny,

and obtained a new kind of monarchy, one imbued with the values that future generations would all cherish,

that of constitutional government, civil rights, and above all, Protestantism.

But while there is merit to some of this, it is also rampant exaggeration,

concocted to justify an armed coup.

The man who would lead this coup, and launched arguably the first successful military invasion of England since 1066,

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