Mary of Modena is not one of the more famous names for English consorts but subject to one of the most notorious incidents as mother to the so-called 'bedpan baby'. We look at the truth of this as well as Mary's life, second wife to the man who would become James II, at the eye of the storm for the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and then the life of the Jacobite Matriarch in French exile. Will the real Mary warrant her notoriety and does she have enough about her to claim the Rex Factor?
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S3.61 Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
S3.60 Caroline of Brunswick
S3.59 Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
S3.58 Caroline of Ansbach
S3.57 Sophia Dorothea of Celle
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S3.53 Elizabeth Cromwell
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