There can be few countries where people still feel an attachment to a dynasty which ceased to reign in 1714, but that is the guiding spirit of the Royal Stuart Society that held its Centenary Dinner in the hall of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on May 29, 2026. Even more awkward for the Society’s cause is the fact that the Stuarts themselves died out in 1807, and the notional heir to their claim (as against the Act of Settlement, which in defiance of legitimate succession excluded Catholics from the throne) is Franz, Duke of Bavaria, who at the age of 93 is not planning any dynastic challenge to King Charles III.
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A toast to the Stuarts
At the Royal Stuart Society’s centenary dinner, a surviving attachment to the Stuart cause offered a reflection on monarchy, legitimacy and the place of tradition in modern political life
HJA Sire
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