SLAVERY So the British monarchy is to be investigated for possible links to slavery, all because William III was given shares in a company that transported slaves from Africa to the Americas. King Charles III’s relationship to William III is remote in the extreme, but worth examining. It is often said that England hated Catholics – not true, England hated foreigners, which is not the same thing. King James II, who succeeded his brother Charles II in 1685 was Catholic. That did not matter, his only children and therefore his presumed successors were two daughters, Mary a Protestant married to William, Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland (later William III), and Anne, also a Protestant married to George of Denmark, both out of James’s first wife, Anne Hyde, who died in 1671.
SLAVERY
SLAVERY
SLAVERY
SLAVERY So the British monarchy is to be investigated for possible links to slavery, all because William III was given shares in a company that transported slaves from Africa to the Americas. King Charles III’s relationship to William III is remote in the extreme, but worth examining. It is often said that England hated Catholics – not true, England hated foreigners, which is not the same thing. King James II, who succeeded his brother Charles II in 1685 was Catholic. That did not matter, his only children and therefore his presumed successors were two daughters, Mary a Protestant married to William, Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland (later William III), and Anne, also a Protestant married to George of Denmark, both out of James’s first wife, Anne Hyde, who died in 1671.