‘Finsthwaite Princess’

Variously called the “Cumbrian Princess” and the “Finsthwaite Princess,” Clementina has been reputed to be the illegitimate daughter of Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charles (1720-1788) the Jacobite “Young Pretender” to the throne of Great Britain, by his mistress, Clementina Maria Sophia Walkinshaw (c1720 – 1802).

The Finsthwaite Parish church register which recorded her death: “Buried Clementina Johannes Sobiesky Douglas of Waterside Spinster May the 16th Day 1771.”


25 April 1913, Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer:

2 May 1913, Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer:

4 July 1944, Liverpool Daily Post:

13 November 1945, Penrith Observer:

 

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