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The Portraits at Longleat

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No. 88 James Duke of York, Afterwards

JAMES II., KING OF ENGLAND.

By Sir Peter Lely.

BORN 1633, DEPOSED 1688, DIED 1701.

Full length. Crimson robes. Mantle. Collar and Order of Garter.

The second son of Charles I. by Henrietta Maria. Married, first, Anne Hyde, daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, and, secondly, Maria d’Este of Modena. By his first marriage he had Mary, married to the Prince of Orange, afterward William III., and Anne, married to the Prince of Denmark, who succeeded her sister as Queen. By Mary of Modena he had Charles, who died young, James, called the Chevalier de St. George, or the Old Pretender, and three daughters.

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