{"id":37204,"date":"2017-02-12T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37204"},"modified":"2017-02-08T14:23:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T19:23:56","slug":"british-historys-biggest-fibs-with-lucy-worsley-episode-2-the-glorious-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/02\/12\/british-historys-biggest-fibs-with-lucy-worsley-episode-2-the-glorious-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"British History&#8217;s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley Episode 2: The Glorious Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x2s6E8GWWKU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 3 Feb 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Lucy debunks another of the biggest fibs in British history &#8211; the &#8216;Glorious Revolution&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In 1688, the British Isles were invaded by a huge army led by Dutch prince, William of Orange. With his English wife Mary he stole the throne from Mary&#8217;s father, the Catholic King James II. This was the death knell for absolute royal power and laid the foundations of our constitutional monarchy. It was spun as a &#8216;glorious and bloodless revolution&#8217;. But how &#8216;glorious&#8217; was it really? It led to huge slaughter in Ireland and Scotland. Lucy reveals how the facts and fictions surrounding 1688 have shaped our national story ever since.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 3 Feb 2017 In this episode, Lucy debunks another of the biggest fibs in British history &#8211; the &#8216;Glorious Revolution&#8217;. In 1688, the British Isles were invaded by a huge army led by Dutch prince, William of Orange. With his English wife Mary he stole the throne from Mary&#8217;s father, the Catholic King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,7],"tags":[360,347,33,396,222,506],"class_list":["post-37204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-history","tag-christianity","tag-debunking","tag-ireland","tag-monarchy","tag-netherlands","tag-revolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9G4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37205,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204\/revisions\/37205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}