Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "The Stuart Queens \u0026 Consorts of England 6/8" video.

  1. William of Orange wasn't invited by parliament, he invited himself. He was already planning an invasion of England and asked 7 lord parliamentarians to invite him, a plot involving John Locke who lived and worked in the Dutch Republic, to make it look less of an invastion and conquest and avoid bloodshed and future instability. It was his propaganda war, gaining popular and nobility support that He wasn't forced by parliament to accept anything, London was full of Dutch troops and English soldiers weren't allowed near Londen, he had the country occupied and under his control. But his aim was a stable protestant GB with religious tolerance to prevent the Dutch Republic and protestantism alltogether from being ended by catholic absolute monarchs of Europe uniting against the Dutch Republic. England, France, Spain, half of Germany together against the Dutch Republic would be too much and is was already an extremely close call in 1672. As appointed leader of the Dutch Republic, Stadtholder (steward) he already was used to not having absolute power, religious tolerance and the bill of rights was something the Dutch already had (regained) for a century. Het was not a Dutch prince, he was a Dutch civil servant and prince of the principality of Orange in Southern France. The mighty army that invaded wasn't his, it was the Dutch Republic's and the Dutch states that appointed him and provided this army didn't care for his personal glory and power, they did care for not having a catholic enemy in England, they cared a lot.
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