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Charles Edward Stuart
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(1720–88) Claimant to the throne as grandson of *James II and son of James *Stuart and Maria Sobieska, a Polish princess; he is known also as the Young Pretender and Bonnie Prince Charlie. On behalf of his father he landed in Scotland in 1745 to begin the *'45 Rebellion. After considerable early successes, the adventure ended nine months later in overwhelming defeat at *Culloden. The prince was in Scotland for a further five months, on the run from government troops (an ignominious period to which a touch of glamour was added by the heroism of Flora *Macdonald), until he escaped back to France in September 1746.
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From 1748 he was no longer welcome even there, for peace was established between Britain and France at the end of the War of the Austrian Succession. Charles spent the remaining four decades of his life wandering round Europe, virtually a fugitive, often in disguise. With the death of his younger brother Henry (the cardinal duke of York, 1725–1807), the male Stuart line came to an end.
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