Order of the Crown of Stuart

[McClef]

I love "what if" stories.

But the scenario of Cumberland replacing his father as Monarch, however brief a reign, over the superior claims of Frederick, Prince of Wales, is somewhat fanciful as it would have required the actual abdications of George II, Frederick and Frederick's son George (later George III).

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

I love "what if" stories.

But the scenario of Cumberland replacing his father as Monarch, however brief a reign, over the superior claims of Frederick, Prince of Wales, is somewhat fanciful as it would have required the actual abdications of George II, Frederick and Frederick's son George (later George III).

er... that's why it's called fiction.

[McClef]

But historical fiction still requires detailed research so that scenarios appear authentic.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

But historical fiction still requires detailed research so that scenarios appear authentic.

Quite true, but the historical accuracy is only necessary to frame the characters and plot and to keep everything more or less on track. What the characters say, or do, need have no basis in historical fact, unless one is dramatizing historical events as opposed to writing historical fiction, which is a different genre.

Historical writing is telling what happened.
Historical dramatizing is showing what historically happened.
Historical fiction tells a story which is set against an historical backdrop that shapes the events of the story and molds the personality of the characters involved in that story.

But you are right about one thing: all three require huge amounts of research!