Born to be Kings?: The Jacobites, their Sovereigns and their People

A detailed academic history which reads like an 'inside story' and shows the British state following the rise to great power status after the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.The Jacobite challenge came from within with fear of foreign invasion by international great power rivals, France and Spain in support of the Stuarts.The challenge went to the heart of the British establishment following the defeat and exile of James II and advent of William and Mary - the 'Glorious Revolution' in 1688 and the reigns of the Hanoverian George 1 and II.This challenge was seen as an existential threat to the British state as a great power.English Tory fears of hostility from the new Hanoverian heir lead to attempt to pre-empt Hanoverian Succession by bringing in James II's son, but he refuses to help this by abandoning Catholicism.At crucial moment, with new king George I disliked and significant Tory grass-roots plotting, Jacobite sponsor Louis XIV dies - then hired shipping is wrecked in Channel storm.The