Michel Lafosse
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Michel Lafosse (born in Brussels in 1958) claims to be a descendant of Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") and thus the legitimate Jacobite claimant to the throne of the former Kingdom of Scotland. He calls himself Prince Michael of Albany, based on the usage of the alias "Count of Albany" by his alleged ancestor.
The Royal House of Stuart became extinct in the male line with the death in 1807 of Henry Benedict Stuart, self-styled "King Henry IX." He had succeeded his elder brother, Charles Edward Stuart, in 1788. (Charles left one illegitimate daughter, Charlotte, who had four illegitimate children.) The Jacobite claim has since devolved on various continental Catholic dynasties, most recently the Wittelsbach dynasty, whose head, the Duke of Bavaria, is the heir to the Royal House of Stuart (although not the Stewart clan).
Lafosse claims that Charles Stuart secretly obtained a papal annullment of his marriage to Princess Louise of Stolberg, secretly remarried a woman called Marguerite O'Dea d'Audibert de Lussan, Comtesse de Massillan, and in 1786 had a legitimate son, Edward James Stuart, Count Stuarton, Count of Albany, from whom he claims to be descended. There is no evidence for any of these events or the existence of such a child.
External links
- Fantasy Royalty - a complete exposure of Lafosse as an imposter (http://www.chivalricorders.org/royalty/fantasy/stuart.htm)
- a page detailing the unlikelihood of his claims (http://www.jacobite.ca/essays/lafosse.htm)