The Very Mention Of Thatchers Name.
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There's a good play - Hadrian VII by Pontecorvo, about an outsider who is elected Pope. Fiction of course, but it shows the question has been around for some time.
Garriq raises a good point. I thought he was called Cardinal Stuart, but the THING about his accepting a cardinal's hat, was the vow of celibacy that goes with it. And THAT meant, since the Stuart claim to the English throne resided in him, that unmarried and without an heir, the claim was thereby extinguished.
The stuart claim was denied by the Bill of Rights 1689 and Act of Settlement 1701, but what does a few acts of parliament matter. It does seem odd, three hundred years later, that a protestant king was SO desirable and a Roman Catholic king was so undesirable, that the people of England settled for a non English speaking German ! (who kept mistresses and had shut his wife up in a cell in Celle for twenty years for adultery -Sophia Dorothea - ) This makes Chazz and Cazz look almost normal.
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