If King James II hadn been overthrown in 1688/1689, who would be the sovereign today?
If King James II hadn’t been overthrown in 1688/1689, Europe’s history would have been very different in many ways. At some level, the question is impossible to answer, because it requires conjectures about three hundred years’ worth of history; in particular, about what marriages would have taken place and what the issue would have been. Different people would have been on the throne, and they would have certainly married differently. If King James II hadn’t been overthrown in 1688/89, and if all births, marriages and deaths had taken place exactly the way they did in fact take place, Franz, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1933) would be the sovereign today. Franz, who is the great-grandson of the last King of Bavaria, is known as Francis II , King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland to his Jacobite followers since the death of his father in July 1996. Franz finds himself in this position because he is the senior co-heir general (senior representative) of King Charles I. Following the death
