The warming-pan prince is born
1688 · Event
After fifteen years without a Catholic heir, James's queen bears a son — and Protestant England decides the baby was smuggled into the bed in a warming pan. True or not, the birth turns a problem that would die with James into a Catholic dynasty, and makes revolution urgent.
On these timelines: The Glorious Revolution, England, United Kingdom (combined), Master
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