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CHARLES EDWARD STUART (ʻThe Young Pretender') Autograph letter signed ("C.R."), in French, to his banker and gentleman of the bedchamber Giuseppe Caietan Cantini of Rome, Florence [Palazzo di San Clemente or ʻdel Pretendente'], 14 November 1780
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CHARLES EDWARD STUART (ʻThe Young Pretender')
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ʻJE SUIS ENCORE TRÉS OCCUPÉ DES AFFAIRES DE MA MAISON' – THE IMPENDING END OF JACOBITE HOPES. The sixty-year-old prince had married the twenty-year-old Louisa in 1772, the marriage being politically and connubially a failure; Charles taking to drink and Louisa embarking on an affair with the poet Alfieri. Two weeks after the date of our letter on, inappropriately enough, St Andrew's Day, the drunken prince attacked Louisa, being found by the servants trying to strangle her. She fled to Rome and the protection of Charles's brother Henry, Cardinal York: ʻThe breach was recognized by observers such as Horace Mann as a more or less final blow to the dynastic hopes of the exiled line. York's protection ceased in 1783 when he was enlightened as to the (continuing) Alfieri affair. An official separation was negotiated by Gustav III of Sweden in 1784' (Eirwen E. C. Nicholson, ODNB).





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