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Originally Posted by jason taylor
The Hanovers came over when there were out of Stuarts who were willing to serve in James' place after the Glorious Revolution and were an acknowledgement that they were running out of fig-leafs. George I was a legal technicality to apologize for a previous coup and his reign in fact must be analyzed in reference to it.
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The Glorious Revolution was obviously a coup, the ascession of the Protestant Anne over her Catholic-leaning father was a continuation of it, but then the new norm was enshrined with the Act of Settlement. George I was Anne's closest living relative eligible to inherit.