King James II – Ingliando

On this day the Declaration of Right was read in Parliament and William of Orange and his wife Mary, the daughter of King James II, were invited to accept the throne of England. The invitation was accepted and on 11th April the couple were crowned after swearing an oath to uphold the laws made by Parliament. William had arrived in England with a large fleet and army after a group of English Parliamentarians invited him to overthrow King James II in what is known as the Glorious Revolution. On his arrival, James fled to France and his flight was conveniently interpreted as abdication. The Declaration of Right was sanctioned in the Bill of Rights which limited the powers of the monarch, barred Roman Catholics from the throne of England, and established the rights of Parliament. It is considered a milestone on Britain’s road to democracy, and is still a crucial statute in English constitutional law.

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On this day Mary of Modena, an Italian princess and the wife of King James II escaped from England to France with her son, James Francis Edward Stuart, after prominent Protestants, fearful of a continuing Catholic dynasty, had invited James II’s Protestant nephew and son-in-law, William of Orange, to invade England. In what was later to be known as “The Glorious Revolution”, King James II was overthrown by William who later allowed him to escape to France. William and Mary (James II’s daughter by his first marriage) were jointly crowned in Westminster Abbey on 11th April 1689.

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