Louisa Maria Stuart

Louisa Maria Stuart
Princess Royal (titular)
Portrait, c. 1708–10
Born(1692-06-28)28 June 1692
Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Died18 April 1712(1712-04-18) (aged 19)
Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Burial
Church of the English Benedictines, Paris
Names
English: Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart
French: Louise Marie Thérèse Stuart
HouseStuart
FatherJames II of England
MotherMary of Modena
ReligionRoman Catholicism

Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart (French: Louise Marie Thérèse; 28 June 1692 – 18 April 1712), known to Jacobites as The Princess Royal, was the last child of James II and VII, the deposed king of England, Scotland and Ireland, by his second wife Mary of Modena. Like her brother James Francis Edward Stuart (The Old Pretender), Louisa Maria was a Roman Catholic, which, under the Act of Settlement 1701, debarred them both from succession to the British throne after the death of their Protestant half-sister Anne, Queen of Great Britain.

A Royal Stuart Society paper calls Louisa Maria the Princess over the Water, an allusion to the informal title King over the Water of the Jacobite pretenders, none of whom had any other legitimate daughters.[1][2]

  1. ^ Publications of the Royal Stuart Society Archived 9 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine at royalstuartsociety.com – web site of the Royal Stuart Society (accessed 11 February 2008)
  2. ^ SCOTTISH ROYAL LINEAGE – THE HOUSE OF STUART Part 4 of 6 online at burkes-peerage.net (accessed 9 February 2008)

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