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William III was not a Briton: if anything, he was Dutch, head of the Dutch Republic as Stadholder. In 1688 he underwent a transfiguration which meant that he became, for a significant number of people, a key symbol of British unity, as we are still well aware today in Belfast, and sometimes in Dublin, Liverpool and Glasgow. From one perspective this involved drawing on a powerful tradition of British monarchy as God’s instrument in the defence of Protestantism. Indeed, it would be William’s reign in which the crowns of all three kingdoms were forbidden to anyone of the Roman Catholic religion. Yet William’s interest in Britain was not sectarian, even if it was sectarianism which led this very Dutch man to become such a very British king.
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Murdoch, A. (1998). The Union of England and Scotland and the Development of the Hanoverian State. In: British History 1660–1832. British Studies Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27235-8_4
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