Husband of: Luise zu Stolberg-Gedern (1752-1824)
Countess of Albany
Also known as Caroline de Stolberg Mar 1773, sep 1780
Charles Edward's physical appearance & personal qualities.
"To begin at the beginning, in physical qualities the Prince was dowered by a kind fairy. He was firmly though slimly built, of the best stature for strength and health. 'He had a body made for war,' writes Lord Elcho, who hated him. The gift of beauty (in his case peculiarly fatal, as will be seen) had not been denied to him. His broww was high and broad, his nose shapely, his eyes of a rich dark brown, his hair of a chestnut hue, golden at the tips. Though his eyes are described as blue, both in 1744 by Sir Horace Mann, and in later life (1770) by an English lady in Rome, though Lord Stanhope and Mr. Stevenson agree in this erro, brown was really their colour. Charles inherited the dark eyes of his father, 'the Black Bird,' and of Mary Stuart. . . ." (Pickle The Spy - The Incognito Of Prince Charles)
Prince Charlie's love affairs.
"In France, he had numerous affairs, including one with his married cousin Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne, who gave birth to their son Charles. Sadly, the baby lived only a few months. In 1748, Charles was expelled from France under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the war with England. Charles also had a relationship with Scottish Clementina Walkinshaw, which probably began during the 1745 rebellion. The couple, who lived together for many years, had a daughter, Charlotte. But, the Stuart cause now lost, Charles was now a broken man. Plunged into depression, he began to drink heavily. Clementina took her daughter and left him." (History & Other Thoughts)
Charles Edwards's lovers were:
1) Clementina Walkinshaw.
Lover in 1752-1760.
"The facts about this Miss Walkinshaw, daughter of John Walkinshaw of Barowfield, have long been obscure. We can now offer her own account of her adventures, from the archives of the French Foreign Office. In 1746 (according to a memoir presented to the French Court in 1774 by Miss Walkinshaw's daughter, Charlotte) the Prince first met Clementia Walkinshaw at the house of her uncle, Sir Hugh Paterson, near Bannockburn. The lady was then aged twenty: she was named after Charles's mother, and was a Catholic. The Prince conceived a passion for her, and obtained from her a promise to follow him 'wherever providence might lead him, if he failed in his attempt.' At a date not specified, her uncle, 'General Graeme,' obtained for her a nomination as chanoinesse in a chapitre noble of the Netherlands. But 'Prince Charles was then incognito in the Low Countries, and a person in his confidence [Sullivan, tradition says] warmly urged Miss Walkinshaw to go and join him, as she had promised, pointing out that in the dreadful state of his affairs, nothing could better soothe his regrets than the presence of the lady whom he most loved. Moved by her passion and her promise given to a hero admired by all Europe, Miss Walkinshaw betook herself to Douay. The Prince, at Ghent, heard news so interesting to his heart, and bade her go to Paris, where he presently joined her. They renewed their promises and returned to Ghent, where she took his name [Johnson], was treated and regarded as his wife, later travelled with him in Germany, and afterwards was domiciled with him at Liege, where she bore a daughter, Charlotte, baptized on October 29, 1753." (Pickle the Spy or The Incognito of Prince Charles)
2) Maria Ludovica Jablonowska (1711-1773)
Princesse de Talmont
'" . . . She married in 1773 the Pretender, Charles Edward, who had taken the title of Count of Albany. She separated from him in 1780 and lived with the poet Alfieri, who had a great passion for her, and who secretly married her after the death of the Count of Albany. After Alfieri's death the Countess returned to Florence, where she formed relations with the French painter Fabre." (Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino: 292)
"...In Florence in 1777 he met the Countess of Albany, the estranged wife of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, and after separating from her husband, she became his mistress...." (Houghton Mifflin Co., p. 32)
Charles Edward's physical appearance & personal qualities.
"To begin at the beginning, in physical qualities the Prince was dowered by a kind fairy. He was firmly though slimly built, of the best stature for strength and health. 'He had a body made for war,' writes Lord Elcho, who hated him. The gift of beauty (in his case peculiarly fatal, as will be seen) had not been denied to him. His broww was high and broad, his nose shapely, his eyes of a rich dark brown, his hair of a chestnut hue, golden at the tips. Though his eyes are described as blue, both in 1744 by Sir Horace Mann, and in later life (1770) by an English lady in Rome, though Lord Stanhope and Mr. Stevenson agree in this erro, brown was really their colour. Charles inherited the dark eyes of his father, 'the Black Bird,' and of Mary Stuart. . . ." (Pickle The Spy - The Incognito Of Prince Charles)
Prince Charlie's love affairs.
"In France, he had numerous affairs, including one with his married cousin Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne, who gave birth to their son Charles. Sadly, the baby lived only a few months. In 1748, Charles was expelled from France under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the war with England. Charles also had a relationship with Scottish Clementina Walkinshaw, which probably began during the 1745 rebellion. The couple, who lived together for many years, had a daughter, Charlotte. But, the Stuart cause now lost, Charles was now a broken man. Plunged into depression, he began to drink heavily. Clementina took her daughter and left him." (History & Other Thoughts)
Charles Edwards's lovers were:
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| Clementina Walkinshaw |
Lover in 1752-1760.
"The facts about this Miss Walkinshaw, daughter of John Walkinshaw of Barowfield, have long been obscure. We can now offer her own account of her adventures, from the archives of the French Foreign Office. In 1746 (according to a memoir presented to the French Court in 1774 by Miss Walkinshaw's daughter, Charlotte) the Prince first met Clementia Walkinshaw at the house of her uncle, Sir Hugh Paterson, near Bannockburn. The lady was then aged twenty: she was named after Charles's mother, and was a Catholic. The Prince conceived a passion for her, and obtained from her a promise to follow him 'wherever providence might lead him, if he failed in his attempt.' At a date not specified, her uncle, 'General Graeme,' obtained for her a nomination as chanoinesse in a chapitre noble of the Netherlands. But 'Prince Charles was then incognito in the Low Countries, and a person in his confidence [Sullivan, tradition says] warmly urged Miss Walkinshaw to go and join him, as she had promised, pointing out that in the dreadful state of his affairs, nothing could better soothe his regrets than the presence of the lady whom he most loved. Moved by her passion and her promise given to a hero admired by all Europe, Miss Walkinshaw betook herself to Douay. The Prince, at Ghent, heard news so interesting to his heart, and bade her go to Paris, where he presently joined her. They renewed their promises and returned to Ghent, where she took his name [Johnson], was treated and regarded as his wife, later travelled with him in Germany, and afterwards was domiciled with him at Liege, where she bore a daughter, Charlotte, baptized on October 29, 1753." (Pickle the Spy or The Incognito of Prince Charles)
2) Maria Ludovica Jablonowska (1711-1773)
Princesse de Talmont
Lover in 1748.
Also known as Marie-Louise Jablonowska.
Daughter of: Jan Stanislaw Jablonowski & Jeanne de Bethune.
Wife of: Charles de La Tremoille, Prince de Talmont (d.1759) mar 1730
Also known as Marie-Louise Jablonowska.
Daughter of: Jan Stanislaw Jablonowski & Jeanne de Bethune.
Wife of: Charles de La Tremoille, Prince de Talmont (d.1759) mar 1730
The story of Charles Edward's stormy romance with the forty-seven-year-old Polish princess, a cousin of the Queen of France (as well as more distantly, of Louise and the Prince himself) must be left for another time. She was a woman of legendary beauty and wit, equally fluent in Polish and French. Her father, Jean Stanislas Malinowski (1669-1731) was a Palatin de Russie (Ruthenia) and an uncle of King Stanislas Leszczynski. Her mother, whom we have already met in Lvov (Leopold), died there in 1744. Young Marie-Louie Jablonowska had a younger, less attractive sister, Catherine-Dorothee, who married the exiled Polish King's grand maitre, Francois-Maximilien, Comte de Tenczyn Ossolinski in 1732, but soon became, with the richly subsidized blessing of her aging husband, the mistress of Stanislas himself. Playing mistress to Stanislas had actually been one of Marie-Louise's own roles when, as Princesse Palatine de Russie, she had gone to live at Chambord in 1727 where the exiled father-in-law of Louis XV had taken up his official residence two years before. There, she became as well the public mistress of a handsome and dashing young officer, Charles-Francois-Marie de Custine, the celebrated Chevalier de Wiltz. Stanislas generously took it upon himself to find a suitable match for Marie-Louise, but her situation had become so notorious that one initially interested suitor, Louis-Henri de Bourbon, M. Le Duc himself, soon lost interest. Louis XV's father-in-law tried to marry her off to the Comte d'Evreux, but again the lady's reputation cost her a golden opportunity. Less brilliant success came at last when the King of Poland's choice fell on Anne-Charles-Frederic de la Tremoille, Comte de Taillebourg, the son of Frederic-Guillaume, Prince de Talmont. At nineteen, Anne-Charles-Frederic was ten years younger than the experienced Marie-Louise, and his family hesitated, but with the help of a generous dowry from Stanislas and a persuasive ducal title thrown into the bargain by the King of France, the marriage took place on 29 October 1730. Unfortunately for the tranquility of the husband (whose tastes in later years seem to have run more to young men and extremely austere devotional exercises), the new Duchesse de Chatellrault made not even a token effort to live up to her marriage vows. Her liaison with the gallant Chevalier to Wiltz continued without interruption as did, for a time, her affair with Stanislas. . . ." (The Love of a Prince: Bonnie Prince Charlie in France, 1744-1748: 221)
" . . . In the summer of 1748, aged forty-seven, she became the mistress of her twenty-years younger cousin, Charles Edward Stuart, 'the Young Pretender'. Theirs was a torrid love affair that caused a great scandal and was of great annoyance to the King of France and the exiled King of Poland. The Young Pretender physically ass assaulted her and yet she remained in love with him. To her dying days she wore a locket containing a portrait of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Young Pretender. When a person once enquired as to the reason for the two portraits, a quick wit replied: "Because neither of their kingdoms are of this world." The famous portrait of the Young Pretender that today hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh was a gift to Jablonowska from Charles III." (rafalhm, 2004, December 17)
"But the most important development in the prince's life resulting from his entry into the d'Aiguillon social circle was his acquisition of a new mistress. Marie-Anne-Louise Jablonowska, Princesse de Talmont, was a cousin of the queen of France and had been in her time a fabulous beauty. When the prince fell in with her, she was in her mid-forties. Like her friend the in the 1730s). In 1730 Marie Jablonowska was married to the Prince de Talmont, a scion and second son of the La Tremoille family. This was another dynastic marriage of convenience. While the Prince de Talmont, ten years his wife's junior, was a repressed homosexual who sublimated his leanings in devotional austerities, the princess continued to live an emancipated life and took a strong of lovers. She was intelligent, witty, cynical and worldly-wise, one who masked a failed or frustrated creativity under a veil of caprice and eccentricity. She had an instant entree to the court both through her kinship with the queen and her friendship with Maurepas, who shared her taste in caustic wit and cynical lampoonery." (Bonnie Prince Charlie: Charles Edward Stuart: xxxviii)
3) Marie-Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne (1725-1793)
Duchesse de Montbazon
Lover in 1747.
Also known as:
Duchesse de Montbazon
Lover in 1747.
Also known as:
Marie-Louise-Henriette-Jeanne de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duchesse de Montbazon, Princesse de Rohan.
". . . The lady he loved and who loved him in return with equal passion was his twenty-two-year-old cousin, Marie-Louise-Henriette-Jeanne de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duchess de Montbazon and Princesse de Rohan, the young wife of the even younger head of one of France's oldest and most powerful families, Jules-Hercule-Meriadec, Prince de Rohan, Duc de Montbazon, Prince de Guemene. . . . " (Bongie: 1)
Personal & Family Background.
". . . The father of the Princess, the Duc de Bouillon, a descendant of the great Turenne, was Grand Chambellan de France, a gambling and carousing crony of Louis XV and the head of another of France's three or four most powerful families who claimed their princely titles and prerogatives by the grace of God alone. In 1737, only ten years before the secret romance began, four of Europe's kings or would-be kings had personally intervened in early marriage plans for the Princess, who happened to be the great-granddaughter of Poland's legendary monarch, Jan Sobieski, as well as one of Europe's potentially wealthiest heiresses." (Bongie: 1)
Countess of Albany's other lover was:
Personal & Family Background: "He was born in Asti, near Piedmont, inherited a vast fortune at the age of 14, and traveled throughout Europe before turning his hand to writing...." (Houghton Mifflin Co., p. 32)
References:
". . . The lady he loved and who loved him in return with equal passion was his twenty-two-year-old cousin, Marie-Louise-Henriette-Jeanne de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duchess de Montbazon and Princesse de Rohan, the young wife of the even younger head of one of France's oldest and most powerful families, Jules-Hercule-Meriadec, Prince de Rohan, Duc de Montbazon, Prince de Guemene. . . . " (Bongie: 1)
Personal & Family Background.
". . . The father of the Princess, the Duc de Bouillon, a descendant of the great Turenne, was Grand Chambellan de France, a gambling and carousing crony of Louis XV and the head of another of France's three or four most powerful families who claimed their princely titles and prerogatives by the grace of God alone. In 1737, only ten years before the secret romance began, four of Europe's kings or would-be kings had personally intervened in early marriage plans for the Princess, who happened to be the great-granddaughter of Poland's legendary monarch, Jan Sobieski, as well as one of Europe's potentially wealthiest heiresses." (Bongie: 1)
Countess of Albany's other lover was:
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| Vittorio Alfieri |
Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803)
Italian dramatist & poet.
Alfieri's other lovers were:
1. Polissena Turinetti, Marchesa di Prie.
Lover in 1772
" . . . Canova's friend Polissena Turinetti, marchesa di Prie, was also an anti-Bonapartist exile, from her native Piedmont; Canova had been a guest in her palace in Turin on his way from Paris back to Rome in 1802. She was eventually sentenced to prison at Fenestrelle for her opposition to Napoleon. A keen admirer of the celebrated poet Vittorio Alfieri, Turinetti was connected to Louisa von Stolberg, countess of Albany, Alfieri's erstwhile mistress, who commissioned his tomb from Canova. . . ." (Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe: 122)
2) Penelope Ligonier.
2) Penelope Ligonier.
"In 1772, at age of fifty-one, Charles married. His wife was an impecunious nineteen-year-old German princess, Louise of Stolberg... but the marriage was childless and soon became loveless. Charles, who had renewed his heavy drinking, once again became tormented by jealousy, and would beat his wife viciously Within a year she had found a lover, the playwright Count Alfieri, and the marriage collapsed." (Magnusson, p. 629)
Personal & Family Background: "He was born in Asti, near Piedmont, inherited a vast fortune at the age of 14, and traveled throughout Europe before turning his hand to writing...." (Houghton Mifflin Co., p. 32)
References:
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[Ref2:Boston Phoenix]
[Ref3:Lawbook Exchange Ltd]
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