Edie, gave the royals a “license to act as if the law dispensed with did not exist.” King James II went a little too ... discretion is exercised,” he wrote. If discretion is being exercised ...

The coronation of James II and his queen Mary of Modena took place on 23rd April 1685. Francis Sandford wrote a history ... The king was crowned by Archbishop Sancroft and the service omitted the ...