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3 unusual facts about Henry Benedict Stuart


Henry Benedict Stuart

The historian Andrew Lang alluded to James's comment that his younger son would never marry although many marriages had been planned for him.

Henry Stuart

Henry Benedict Stuart, known as Cardinal Duke of York and King Henry IX

Niccolò Jommelli

His first opera seria, Ricimero re di Goti, was such a success in Rome in 1740 that work was immediately commissioned from him by Henry Benedict Stuart, the Cardinal-Duke of York.


Sir John Hippisley, 1st Baronet

In 1799 the plight of The Cardinal Duke of York, the last representative in the male line of the Royal House of Stuart, was brought to Hippisley's attention by Dr. Stefano Cardinal Borgia.


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