Quote Originally Posted by Taskr View Post
The Royal House of Stuart became extinct with the death of Cardinal Henry Benedict Stuart, brother of Charles Edward Stuart, in 1807
That's a myth in so many ways...

You fall into the old fashioned mistake of just judging a lines linage by the paternal side - which given that Pictish society was said to be matralinear masks the Stuart linage of our current dynasty. They didn't just invite a random German household to become the rulers of the UK... Indeed Cumberland & Charlie were distant cousins...

On top ofthat back in the other line with the surname Stuart, they Fathered a fair few B*stards...one of them was buried in Dunkeld... Even Cardinal Henry had a few he acknowledged...

I did read a book some years back by someone calling himself Prince Michael of Albany claimingsto be a descendant of the Stuart and rightful claimant to the throne. I was cynical & took his claims to be far fetched. But he did produce a convincing enough argument that there was plenty of illegitimate offspring from that line...it was more that he was arguing about the legitimacy of some of them....my bet is there's probably a lot with Stuart blood about today....