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William III, William of Orange (1650-1702), is a key figure in English history. Grandson of Charles I and married to Mary, eldest daughter of James II, the pair became the object of protestant hopes after James lost the throne. Though William was personally unpopular - his continental ties the source of suspicion and resentment - Tony Claydon argues that William was key to solving the chronic instability of seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland. It took someone with a European vision and foreign experience of handling a free political system, to end the stand-off between ruler and people th

William --- Willem --- Orange, --- W. H. P. O. --- W. H., --- William Henry, --- Nassavius, Guilielmus Henricus, --- Great Britain --- Kings and rulers --- History --- Grande-Bretagne --- Biography. --- Rois et souverains --- Biographies --- Histoire --- Willem Hendrik