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They considered the Stuarts and their followers to be godless and corrupt, while they saw themselves as the chosen people.

How out of place these dirty, tired travelers must have seemed at the Stuarts’ fine table.

The tradition of lying in state stretches back to the time of the Stuarts — who reigned from 1603 to 1714 — when sovereigns lay in state for a number of days.

Back in those postwar days of the 1940s and 1950s, British schoolchildren learned by rote the names and lineages of her regal forebears, from Tudors, Plantagenets and Stuarts to Hanoverians, Saxe-Coburgs and Windsors.

Britain had to turn to the Hanovarian George as King because they had run out of Stuarts; although Anne had 17 children only one survived infancy, and he died in 1700.