[post_page_title]The ‘baby on a warming pan’ conspiracy actually worked[/post_page_title]
If hundreds of people surrounding a queen while she was giving birth sounds excessive, meet Mary of Modena, wife of Britain’s last Catholic monarch James II. Most of England’s Anglican/Protestant population was less than thrilled with the prospect of Catholics ruling over them, so the country was rife with rumors that Mary wasn’t even pregnant.
Then, when she gave birth, it was rumored the baby was stillborn and switched for a changeling kept on a warming pan. It didn’t help that 70 dignitaries literally watched her giving birth – they just weren’t dignitaries whose word the people believed. Indeed, their child never sat on the throne.
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