King James II of England narrowly escaped the sinking ship named "The Gloucester". A royal warship that sank off the east coast of Britain more than 300 years ago while carrying a future king was ...

Three years before he ascended the throne in 1685, the future James II of England narrowly survived a shipwreck that claimed the lives of an estimated 130 to 250 people. Running afoul of a ...

Ships sank all the time in 17th-century Britain. But this one carried the future James II—and the tragedy was partially his fault.

James Stuart, the son of King Charles I, survived. He went on to reign as King James II of England and Ireland and as James VII of Scotland from 1685 to 1688, when he was deposed by the Glorious ...

"James VI of Scotland was James I in England. James VII was James II (the last king named James). So if there is to be another King James, he will be styled as King James VIII.

And that, Popper said, was how James Blair appealed to her. Blair was ordained in the Church of England in 1679 but was deprived of his parish in Edinburgh two years later for refusing to take an oath ...

In 1685, the Duke became King James II of England. In 1688, he was deposed by the Glorious Revolution and replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband William of Orange.