| HENRIETTA | Queen ___ Maria, mother of England's Charles II and James II |
| NELL | Paramour of England's Charles II |
| MARGARET | Lady ____ Beaufort, mother of England's first Tudor monarch, King Henry VII (8) |
| ICECREAM | England's Charles I offered his cook DeMirco money to keep the recipe of what secret? (3,5) |
| PRINCEOFWALES | England's Charles, since 1958 |
| CLARENDON | 1st Earl of -; title of Edward Hyde, adviser to Charles II, and Mary II and Queen Anne's maternal grandfather (9) |
| ANNEHYDE | First wife of James II of England and mother of Mary II and Queen Anne (4,4) |
| LELY | Artist who popularised mezzotint in England and painted the Windsor Beauties and portraits of figures including Charles II and Henry Vane the Younger (4) |
| RYEHOUSE | Building in Hertfordshire that gave its name to a 1683 plot to assassinate King Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York (3,5) |
| STUART | British Royal house whose monarchs included James I, Charles II and Anne |
| RYEHOUSEPLOT | A 1683 plan to assassinate Charles II and his brother |
| BIGWIGS | Powerful folk, those crowning, inter alia, Charles II and Louis XIV (7) |
| SPANIEL | Dog with a breed popularised by Charles II and another named after Blenheim Palace, for example; or, alluding to its reputed submissive nature, a word for a fawning person (7) |
| THISTLE | Order of the ___ , Scottish order of knighthood instituted by James II and VII in 1687 (7) |
| ANNE | Second daughter of James II and last British monarch of the Stuart dynasty, on the throne from 1702-14 (4) |
| JACOBITES | Supporters of James II and his descendants |
| OLDPRETENDER | The ___, nickname of Prince James, Prince of Wales, the son of the deposed James II of England (3,9) |
| MARY | --- of Modena, queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland as the second wife of James II (4) |
| PRETENDER | 'The Old _', nickname of James Francis Edward Stuart, son of the deposed James II of England (9) |
| JACOBITE | Supporter of James II after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 (8) |
