I'm no so sure I can explain it fully, not being a man of God, but the King believed in a freedom of religion that the others'd not cared for so much. They wanted things to stay the way they were.
[He hopes Hawk can understand that much, at least. He's no theologian, and trying to explain the differences between Roman Catholics and the Church of England is a bit more than he can manage. The rest...well. That's even harder to explain, but he'll try.]
When the King fled the country originally, he'd not given up. He tried to get back what was his by right of birth, and his son tried as well, and then his grandson. During his grandson's time, there was a great battle near Culloden, and after that was the first time I'd seen the Doctor.
But since the King never fled, he never had to try and win back his crown, and the battle never happened...so I'd never met the Doctor in the first place. And because of that, I couldn't be back in England nearly sixty years earlier.
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[He hopes Hawk can understand that much, at least. He's no theologian, and trying to explain the differences between Roman Catholics and the Church of England is a bit more than he can manage. The rest...well. That's even harder to explain, but he'll try.]
When the King fled the country originally, he'd not given up. He tried to get back what was his by right of birth, and his son tried as well, and then his grandson. During his grandson's time, there was a great battle near Culloden, and after that was the first time I'd seen the Doctor.
But since the King never fled, he never had to try and win back his crown, and the battle never happened...so I'd never met the Doctor in the first place. And because of that, I couldn't be back in England nearly sixty years earlier.