Charles Edward Louis John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart was the grandson of James VII, the King of England. The claimant to England, Scotland, and Ireland’s thrones was Bonnie Prince Charlie. In 1746, as the leader of the Jacobite rising, his army lost to the British at the Battle of Culloden. Stuart fled to France and […]
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