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Prince Charles Edward Stuart, c1735-c1760, (1834-1837). Also known as Bonnie Prince Charlie (1720-1788), he was the last serious Stuart claimant to the British throne and leader of the unsuccessful Jacobite rebellion of 1745-46. Charles's grandfather was the exiled Roman Catholic king James II, and his father, James Edward, the Old Pretender, affected in exile the title King James III. Charles was reared a Catholic and trained in the arts of war. Plate 5 from "Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen, from Alfred the Great to the Latest Times", Vol 4. [Glasgow & Edinburgh, 1834-37]