The
Invitation to William was a letter sent by seven notable Englishmen, later named the
Immortal Seven, to
William III, Prince of Orange, received by him on 30 June 1688 (
Julian calendar, 10 July
Gregorian calendar). In England a Catholic male heir to the throne,
James Francis Edward Stuart, had been born, and the letter asked William to force the ruling king, his uncle and father-in-law
James II of England, by
military intervention to make William's Protestant wife
Mary, James's eldest daughter, heir, on the grounds that newborn
Prince of Wales was allegedly an impostor.