u/dahliia_

The girl in question being Mary II.
Originally from r/historymemes
Who are you taking the salt from? 😂

I’ll be honest, I think the other 2 parts were better.. but no bother!
Fill in the gaps for the second one, if you want.
Feel free to ask about any of my placements ⭐️

..I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.

(And yes, I know William III's one was before the actual battle started, but still.)

My favourite consort! 🇵🇹

There are many examples of kings hating their queens. Which queens hated their kings?

I think these are better than yesterday’s ones 😭
Credits to u/No_Thought_1492 for the idea to use HH characters for all available kings

I might do more, this was so fun 😭

I had SO much fun making these 😭 more coming tomorrow!!

He was known as John II 'The Babymaker' and had 4 legitimate children, one being John III, Duke of Cleves, who was Anne's father.

I know Mary I and Elizabeth I are apart of the famed Tudor dynasty and they're the daughters of Henry VIII with a rocky relationship between them and everything is highly dramatised.

But then what makes the Stuart sisters (Mary II and Anne) so unknown?

They too have a pretty dramatic story if you think about it; like it starts with them being the daughters of the Duke of York, not expected to inherit the throne, loved by their father, and they have a good relationship with each other. Their mother is a commoner whose marriage caused scandal and outrage, and she converts to Catholicism. After their mother's death in 1671, they're placed under the care of governess Frances Villiers, to try and curb any Catholic influence from their father. Then in 1677, aged just 15, Mary leaves for the Netherlands after her marriage and Anne visits her and all is well. Then, in 1679, she unknowingly sees her father for the last time. James then forbids Anne to visit Mary in Holland after Mary and James's relationship deteriorates, though Mary is still friendly with Mary of Modena, her stepmother, who nicknames her 'Princess Lemon.' Then in 1688, the Catholic son is born, you have Mary of Modena allegedly slapping Anne, the whole 'warming-pan baby' myth, then the Glorious Revolution which forces Mary to decide her loyalties and make an important choice (and Anne has to make a choice too, in retrospect) and then she's Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland and she notices how much influence Sarah Churchill (Anne's best friend) has over Anne and she immediately hates Sarah, seeing her as a manipulator to increase the influence of the Churchill family. Relations between the two sisters turn sour, Mary arrests John Churchill (Sarah's husband) in 1692 which Anne takes as a personal offense and sets up a rival court, and Mary berates her sister after a miscarriage (not to mention Anne's 17 pregnancies) for not listening to her about Sarah, and the only thread between the sisters is their love for their son/nephew, the young, sickly Duke of Gloucester. Then in 1694, Mary contracts smallpox at the end of the year and Anne feels terrible and wants her relationship with her sister to end on good terms but is forbidden from seeing her, then Mary dies, aged just 32, and it leads to a reconciliation between William and Anne. Years later, Anne, now queen, and Sarah Churchill finally fall out and Anne potentially could have realised that while her sister was wrong in her approach, perhaps her message wasn't.

So if they too have a pretty interesting, dramatic story, what makes them so unknown? Because if you ask a random person to name 2 queen regnants, they'll probably say Elizabeth II and Victoria. If you ask someone who's pretty active in the media and whatnot, they might say Mary I and Elizabeth I. But nobody really mention these two.

Edit: Forgot to add 'and Ireland' to Anne's photo

First wife of James II (1660-1671). Originally his mistress.

I think she's a super interesting individual, many men fell in love with her but she refused them all when she met James, and she was known for her wit and intelligence, as well as her influence on James (which was a driving factor for his conversion to Catholicism.)

William III (Stadtholder + Prince of Orange at this time) bought Het Loo in 1684 and it was completed fully in 1686 and functioned as William and Mary’s summer home in the Dutch Republic.
(Notice why I picked a portrait of her in an Orange gown?)
Would love to go one day!