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Mary II (30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694) was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland with her husband, King William III and II, from 1689 until her death in 1694.She was also Princess of Orange following her marriage on 4 November 1677.
William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [c] also known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from 1672, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.
Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney (née Villiers; 1657 – 19 April 1733) was an English courtier from the Villiers family and the reputed mistress of William III, King of England and Scotland, from 1680 until 1695. She was a lady-in-waiting to his wife and co-monarch, Queen Mary II of England.
Mary at six years old, by Anthony van Dyck, 1637. Princess Mary Henrietta was born on 4 November 1631 at St. James's Palace, London, the third (but second surviving) child and eldest daughter of Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France.
William ruled jointly with his wife, Mary, [2] James's daughter, until her death in 1694, and then solely until his own death in 1702. [3] In the 18th century, it became fairly common for members of the Whig Ascendancy to assert their support for the Protestant Succession, and by implication their opposition to the Jacobite challenge, by ...
In diplomacy and economics William III transformed the English state's ideology and policies. This occurred not because William III was an outsider who inflicted foreign notions on England but because foreign affairs and political economy were at the core of the English revolutionaries' agenda.
Princess Mary of England (1605–1607), daughter of James VI and I; Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1631–1660), daughter of Charles I of England; Queen Mary II of England (1662–1694), daughter of James VII and II, queen of Scotland & Ireland, wife of King William III, of the House of Orange, and joint ruler with him
James was formally deposed on 11 December 1688 OS in England and on 11 May 1689 OS in Scotland, and his daughter Mary II and her husband, William III, were made joint monarchs. [78] James, however, backed by Louis XIV of France, still considered himself king by divine right , and maintained it was not within parliament's prerogative to depose a ...