I mean, the Jacobite kidnapping scheme is more of a MacGuffin anyway that brings Hector the dashing agent back to Scotland, and then a murder mystery of sorts kicks in (not because of the grand plan, because there is a secret list of collaborators with Team Hannover whom SOMEONE is killing one after the other), but it does get discussed a few times, each time it being for granted that "the Prince Elector and his family" do make theatre trips together, and every time yours truly went BUT HOW? OR "surely Schadenfreude alone would guarantee the Jacobites would know how divided and feuding the Hannover males are and how impossible it therefore is to get them all on the same spot"?
And that's leaving aside the idea that if you kidnapp (or, let's be more realistic, kill) G2 and his sons and his grandsons, all of England would happily accept James and Charlie as their rulers. Yes, the Hannovers weren't personally popular at this point (weirdly enough, G3 would be later, the only Hannover king to be so), but there is a reason they came to the throne in the first place, and that reason hasn't gone away, plus the anti Scot feeling was really MONUMENTAL and as fierce as the anti English sentiment in Scotland in precisely that era. (I mean, seriously. Even a decade later, you have everyone freaking out about Lord Bute being a Scot and eagerly consuming pamphlets in which he's accused of having raised young G3 to be a crypto Catholic Stuart (!). (Meanwhile, young G3: most pious Protestant since Queen Anne, hero worships William of Orange and sees him as his royal role model.
On the more realistic side, kudos to the author, he does let Hector point out that Charlie's idea that Frederick II might support him is delusional, because Fritz might have fun annoying Uncle G2 and harboring Jacobite lords at his court, but no way, absolutely no way, is he going to provide time, money or soldiers to topple the Hannover Cousins and bring the Stuarts back.
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Date: 2025-01-30 08:48 am (UTC)And that's leaving aside the idea that if you kidnapp (or, let's be more realistic, kill) G2 and his sons and his grandsons, all of England would happily accept James and Charlie as their rulers. Yes, the Hannovers weren't personally popular at this point (weirdly enough, G3 would be later, the only Hannover king to be so), but there is a reason they came to the throne in the first place, and that reason hasn't gone away, plus the anti Scot feeling was really MONUMENTAL and as fierce as the anti English sentiment in Scotland in precisely that era. (I mean, seriously. Even a decade later, you have everyone freaking out about Lord Bute being a Scot and eagerly consuming pamphlets in which he's accused of having raised young G3 to be a crypto Catholic Stuart (!). (Meanwhile, young G3: most pious Protestant since Queen Anne, hero worships William of Orange and sees him as his royal role model.
On the more realistic side, kudos to the author, he does let Hector point out that Charlie's idea that Frederick II might support him is delusional, because Fritz might have fun annoying Uncle G2 and harboring Jacobite lords at his court, but no way, absolutely no way, is he going to provide time, money or soldiers to topple the Hannover Cousins and bring the Stuarts back.