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Because he was the grandson and legal heir of King James II of England and VII of Scotland. His grandfather had been deposed during the Glorious Revolution of 1688 because he was a Catholic. Parliament then decreed that the throne would then pass to the heirs of Sophia, Electress of Hanover, King James' Protestant cousin.

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