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Há 3 dias · Meanwhile, in June 1688 Queen Mary (Mary of Modena) gave birth to a male heir, raising the prospect that there would be a Catholic successor to James. Wild rumours spread that the queen had not given birth to the child. It was said that a baby had been smuggled into her confinement in a warming pan.
Há 5 dias · In 1673, James's conversion to Catholicism became public, and he married a Catholic princess, Mary of Modena, who was only six and a half years older than Anne.
Há 3 dias · Here Mary Beatrice of Modena spent the first years of her wedded life with James Duke of York; and even after she became Queen Consort she always preferred its homely apartments to the gilded and gorgeous rooms of the great Palace at Whitehall.
Há 3 dias · King Charles II opposed James's conversion, ordering that James's daughters, Mary and Anne, be raised in the Church of England. Nevertheless, he allowed the widowed James to marry Mary of Modena, a fifteen-year-old Italian princess. James and Mary were married by proxy in a Roman Catholic ceremony on 20 September 1673.
Há 4 dias · In November, James's second wife, Mary of Modena, was announced to be pregnant. That month, to gain the favour of English Protestants, William wrote an open letter to the English people in which he disapproved of James's pro-Roman Catholic policy of religious toleration.
Há 1 dia · Mary’s false pregnancy spurred rumors that the child of James II and Mary of Modena was actually an impostor, snuck in to convince the people of a new heir to the throne of England.
Há 5 dias · For the Danish royal couple’s maiden tour following King Frederik X’s accession to the throne in January, the new monarch Queen Mary of Denmark is delivering suitably regal ensembles.
