Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart
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Portrait by Alexis Simon Belle, 1704
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28 June 1692 Château of Saint-Germain-en-Laye |
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| Died | 18 April 1712 (aged 19) Chateau of Saint-Germain-en-Laye |
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| Burial | Church of the English Benedictines, Paris | ||||
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| House | Stuart | ||||
| Father | James II of England | ||||
| Mother | Mary of Modena | ||||
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| Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart |
Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart (28 June 1692 – 18 April 1712), known to Jacobites as The Princess Royal, was the last child of James II and VII (1633–1701), the deposed king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of his queen, Mary of Modena. In English, she was called Louisa Maria and Louise Marie in French.
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.
Louisa Maria was born in 1692, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, during her parents' exile. Owing to the huge controversy which had surrounded the birth of her brother, James Francis Edward, with accusations of the substitution of another baby in a warming pan following a still-birth, James II had sent letters inviting not only his daughter, Queen Mary II, to attend the birth in person, but also a large number of other Protestant ladies. Of all her legitimate siblings and half-siblings, only her brother James Francis Edward and her half-sisters, Queen Mary II and Queen Anne, survived infancy. Mary died while Louisa Maria was still a small child, but she was on friendly terms with her half-sister Anne.
The Whig historian Macaulay later commented on James's precaution:
Had some of those witnesses been invited to Saint James's on the morning of the tenth of June 1688, the House of Stuart might, perhaps, now be reigning in our island. But it is easier to keep a crown than to regain one. It might be true that a calumnious fable had done much to bring about the Revolution. But it by no means followed that the most complete refutation of that fable would bring about a Restoration. Not a single lady crossed the sea in obedience to James's call. His Queen was safely delivered of a daughter; but this event produced no perceptible effect on the state of public feeling in England.
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