On This Day In Royal History . 24 July 1689 . Prince William, Duke of Gloucester was born . . The future Queen Anne was married to Prince George of Denmark and Norway, & in their six years of marriage Anne had been pregnant six times, but none of her children had survived. At the end of her seventh pregnancy, at 5 a.m. on 24 July 1689, she was delivered of a son in Hampton Court Palace. As it was usual for the births of potential heirs to the throne to be attended by several witnesses, the King (William III) Queen (Mary II) and “most of the persons of quality about the court” were present. Three days later, the newborn baby was baptised William Henry after his uncle King William by Henry Compton, Bishop of London. . About Prince William; . ◼ Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, was the son of Princess Anne, later Queen from 1702, & her husband, Prince George, Duke of Cumberland. He was their only child to survive infancy. Styled Duke of Gloucester, he was viewed by contemporaries as a Protestant champion because his birth seemed to cement the Protestant succession established in the “Glorious Revolution” that had deposed his Catholic grandfather James II the previous year. . ◼ Gloucester’s mother was estranged from her brother-in-law & cousin, William III, & her sister, Mary II, but supported links between them & her son. He grew close to his uncle William, who created him a Knight of the Garter, & his aunt Mary, who frequently sent him presents. . ◼ Gloucester’s precarious health was a constant source of worry to his mother. His death, on 30 July 1700 at the age of eleven, precipitated a succession crisis as his mother was the only individual remaining in the Protestant line of succession established by the Bill of Rights 1689. The English Parliament did not want the throne to revert to a Catholic, & so passed the Act of Settlement 1701, which settled the throne of England on Electress Sophia of Hanover, a cousin of King James II, & her Protestant heirs. . . . #onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1689 #d24jul #PrinceWilliamDukeofGloucester #HouseofStuart #History #EnglishHistory #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #Heritage #Historic #Otd (at Hampton Court Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDCmEaiDg0C/?igshid=2nw3aquqlm5j

On This Day In Royal History . 11 April 1689 . . 👑 William & Mary were crowned joint monarchs . Background; . ◾ In 1688 William, Prince of Orange & Mary were invited by the parliamentary opposition to Mary’s father James II to take the crown on England & were assured of English support. . ▪️ William landed at Torbay on 5 November 1688, in 463 ships unopposed by the Royal Navy, & with an army of 14,000 troops which gathering local support grew to over 20,000 & advanced on London in what became known as ‘The Glorious Revolution’. . ▪️ James fled to France, & in February 1689 William & Mary were crowned King William III & Queen Mary II. . The coronation; . ◼ King William III & Queen Mary II were crowned as joint monarchs at Westminster Abbey on 11 April 1689, the first time this had happened in England. William used the ancient Coronation Chair during the ceremony & another chair was specially made for Mary to sit in. . ◼ The coronation service was performed by the Bishop of London, Henry Compton. Normally, the Archbishop of Canterbury performs coronations, but the incumbent Archbishop, William Sancroft, although an Anglican, refused to recognise the validity of James II’s removal. . ▪ Neither William nor Mary enjoyed the ceremony; she thought it “all vanity” & William called it “Popish”. . ◼ On the same day, the Convention of the Estates of Scotland which was much more divided than the English Parliament finally declared that James was no longer King of Scotland, that “no Papist can be King or Queen of this Realm”, that William & Mary would be joint sovereigns, & that William would exercise sole & full power. . ◼ After their coronation, William & Mary moved into Hampton Court Palace . ▪ On 11 May, William & Mary formally accepted the Scottish crown. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1689 #Coronation #WestminsterAbbey #WilliamIII #KingWilliamIII #kingbilly #QueenMaryII #MaryII #HouseofStuart #HouseofOrange #Royalty #Monarchy #History #BritishMonarchy #d11apr #RoyalHistory #gloriousrevolution #HistoryFacts #princeoforange #Stuarts #Heritage #KingofEngland #OnThisDay #QueenofEngland #GreatBritain (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-2ke8ijh3f/?igshid=1w6kdwvcxdehm