S1.45 James II

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🗓️ 10 February 2012

⏱️ 64 minutes

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The monarchy was left in a pretty good state by Charles II in 1685, but the trickiest part of his reign had been to prevent Parliament excluding his Catholic brother, James, from the throne, so how would Parliament react to its first Catholic ruler since Mary I? James's life and reign proved to be somewhat turbulent and to a large degree the difficulties were of his own making. Would he be able to persuade his anti-Catholic Parliament to grant religious toleration to Catholics? Would he be want to emulate the absolutist monarchy of Louis XIV? And what is his son-in-law, William of Orange, doing with all those troops in the Netherlands? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rex Factor.
0:14.0	This week, James the Second.
0:26.0	With your host Graham Duke and Ali Hood. Hello!
0:27.0	Hello!
0:28.0	Well, Director, actually viewing all the Kings and Queens of England from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth
0:31.2	the second.
0:32.2	This week, James a second second or as he's known in
0:34.5	Scotland James seventh oh yeah yeah yeah father the grandfather James a sixth
0:39.5	before you can answer James you had a special mention that you would do
0:43.4	Oh yeah I would like to say a hello to Priselli Anun who I think is our youngest
0:47.7	listener at 11. So yeah so if you're listening there's a little bit of
0:52.1	your heritage here she's a bit Scottish.
0:54.0	And also to say thanks to Katie Mikkelthoy to who was listening back to apparently her favorite of our
0:58.6	episodes, the Harold the second 1066 on.
1:01.0	Oh yeah.
1:02.0	And apparently we said, or I probably said that
1:04.1	Harold had no relation to Elizabeth the second. Yeah. But apparently because one of
1:08.3	his daughters Giffer through her line went off into various sort of European dynasties and rulers
1:15.2	and they come back in to Edward the third. That is some serious knowledge
1:19.7	so actually how the second is ultimately.
1:22.3	Cricky as well. Okay. Something like 20... actually how the second is ultimately.
1:22.8	Criki, as well.
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