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 ALBANY COMPLETE PEERAGE 85 3 1 Jan. 1788, C) aged 67, and was bur. in St. Peter's, Rome. M.I. Will dat. 23-25 Mar.i783,in which he refers to his da. as Duchess of Albany-C") A later will, dat. 22 Oct. 1784, making his da., the Duchess of Albany, his universal h., is preserved in the archives of contract at Florence. (°) His widow, (^) who was b. at Mons in Hainault 20 Sep. 1752, and bap. there the same day, received a pension of £,1000 p.a. from George III. (') She J. at Florence, 29 Jan. 1824, in her 72nd year, and was bur. at Santa Croce, by the side of the poet Alfieri. (*) M.I. Will dat. 29 Mar. 18 17. TITULAR I. Charlotte (*) Stuart, illegit. da. of Prince Charles DUKEDOM Edward abovenamed, by Clementina Maria Sophia, C") I. 1783 Countess of " AlberstrofF" (') (so cr. by the Em- to peror), yr. da. of John Walkinshaw, of Camlachie and 1789. Barrowfield, co. Lanark, being ist da. by his 3rd wife, Katherine, da. of Sir Hugh Paterson, Bart. [S.], of Bannockburn, was b. at Liege, and bap. there 29 Oct. 1753 as da. of (") A Requiem Mass was sung, 31 Jan. 1888, at the Church of the Carmelites, Kensington, for the repose of his soul. (") Hist. MSS. Com., loth Report, vi. pp. 234-9. V.G. f) Printed in full by A. von Reumont, Die Grcifin von Albany, i860, vol. ii, PP- 316-321. V.G. C*) She is thus described : — " of the middle height, blonde, with deep blue eyes, and nose slightly turned up; the complexion dazzlingly fair like that of an Englishwoman. Her expression was maliciously gay. She seemed made to turn everybody's head." (Bonstettin). "A well informed, shrewd, sensible, worldly person, and, as they tell me, well looking in her day." (J. W. Ward. 18 14.) (*) " Her acquaintance with Alfieri, the poet (whom Card. York in 1785 asserted to have been the origin and completer of the disunion between herself and the Prince), began in 1777. After his death [at Florence,] 8 Oct. 1803, he was replaced as her cavaliere servente by M. Fabvre, a French painter, whom she was said to have privately married." {]zmcsYyennsioi.n, Mem. of Sir Robert Strange, 1855, vol. ii, p. 317.) V.G. f) On her monument she is styled " ."Moysia e Principibus Stolbergiis Albaniae Comitissa. " In her will she calls herself " Luisa Carolina Massimiliana Albertina di Stolberg... Vedova del fu Carlo Eduardo Stuart sotto la denominazione di Conte d'Al- bany ; " but her baptismal and marriage registers bear only the Christian names given in the text, {ex inform. G. W. Watson.) V.G. (^ " She is allowed to be a good figure, tall and well made, but the features of her face resemble too much those of her father to be handsome." (Sir Horace Mann). According to Dennistoun {ut supra, ii, 2 1 5), when Father Cowley, prior of the English Benedictines at Paris, proposed to introduce her and her mother, Clementina Walkinshaw, to Ladv Strange, wife of Sir Robert, that Lady exclaimed, " Oh, the ile jads ! if ye bring them here I'll put the door in their face. " V.G. C) Gen. Charles Edward Stuart, Baron Rohenstadt (1781-1854), bur. in Dunkeld Cath., is said to have been son of Clementina by the Prince. Clementina d. Nov. 1 802, at Freiburg, in Switzerland. Her sister, Catherine, d. unm. in London, 1 1 Nov. 1794. Another sister, Maria Matilda, d. at Rome, 3 Oct. 1797, aged 70. V.G. (') This looks like a corruption of Albertsdorf. There is an Albertsdorf in Lorraine, but perhaps this was a fancy title ; when it was obtained is unknown. V.G.