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The Private Passions of Bonnie Prince Charlie
The Private Passions of Bonnie Prince Charlie Author:Hugh Douglas Charles Edward Stuart lives on as a romantic hero for millions of Scottish descent, despite his historical image as a charismatic self-seeker. The author re-examines the life of the Scottish hero whose flawed character and a lack of success in love influenced his relations with the Royal courts of Europe and played an important part in his role... more » in the history of Scotland and England -- perhaps contributing as much to the defeat of the Jacobite cause as "Butcher" Cumberland's musket fire at Culloden. As well as the torrid affair with the young Duchesse de Montbazon in Paris and the tragic tale of Celmentine Walkinshaw, which resulted in a child, the author looks at the Prince's other relationships with women, from the formative on with his mother, to his disastrous late dynastic marriage to Louise de Stolberg, in which he was left a lonely, elderly cuckold.« less