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unusual facts about James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge



Adolphus Island

King named the island after the Duke of Cambridge at the time, Prince Adolphus.

Cambridge Gulf

The HMS Mermaid spends many days during which King discovered, mapped and named the Cambridge Gulf, of which historians tell us was named after the Duke of Cambridge.

Capture of Eilean Donan Castle

The Spanish had sent troops after Cardinal Giulio Alberoni set up the Alberoni Plan a decision to support the Jacobite claims and its Highland allies both to depose George I and enthrone James Stuart.

Carlos Fitz-James Stuart, 14th Duke of Huéscar

On June 13, 1988, the Duke of Huéscar married, aged 40, in the Seville Cathedral Matilde de Solís-Beaumont y Martínez-Campos, daughter of Fernando de Solís-Beaumont, 10th Marquis of la Motilla, and wife Isabel Martínez-Campos, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Seo de Urgel.

#Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 1st Marquis of Casa Irujo, 1763–1824

Carlos Fitz-James Stuart, 4th Duke of Liria and Jérica

On 9 October 1771 he married Princess Caroline of Stolberg-Gedern (10 February 1755 – 15 April 1828), sister of the Jacobite consort Louise of Stolberg-Gedern and sister-in-law to Charles Edward Stuart, "the Young Pretender".

Carlos María Fitz-James Stuart, 16th Duke of Alba

He died from cancer as Spanish Ambassador in the US in New York, aboard Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht, aged 51.

Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba

On 23 October 1998, she married bullfighter Francisco Rivera Ordóñez of the Ordóñez bullfighting dynasty.

Community of the Sisters of the Church

Their most visible presence in recent years was when two sisters, one in Reeboks, sat in the sanctuary of Westminster Abbey during the wedding of TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on 29 April 2012.

Duke of Cambridge

--William is no longer "of Wales"--> was created Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus.

Earl of Wharncliffe

James Stuart-Wortley, third son of the second Baron, was a member of the first Parliament of New Zealand.

George FitzGeorge

As his parents were married in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act 1772, he was ineligible to succeed his father as Duke of Cambridge and along with his siblings did not hold Royal titles.

Hernando Fitz-James Stuart, 14th Duke of Peñaranda de Duero

Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne on June 4, 1914 in New York City arriving for the International Polo Cup.

James Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick

He inherited titles in the Jacobite and Spanish nobility on the death of his father in battle in 1734 at Philippsburg, (near Karlsruhe, presently located in the German "Bundesland" of Baden-Württemberg), during the War of the Polish Succession.

His mother was Lady Honora Burke (1675–1698), second daughter of William Burke, (d. 1687), the seventh Earl of Clanricarde (Honora was a common female name in the Burke and Walshingam families).

James Stuart-Wortley

James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (1776 – 1845), British politician, son of the above

James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (1747 – 1818), politician, known as James Stuart-Wortley from 1795 to 1803

James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe

Stuart-Wortley was the son of Colonel James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, son of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute and his wife Mary Wortley-Montagu, Baroness Mountstuart in her own right, daughter of Edward Wortley Montagu and Lady Mary Pierrepont.

In 1837 Lord Wharncliffe brought out an edition of the writings of his ancestress, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge

Frances Aylesbury

Montagu House, Portman Square

Occupying a site at the northwest corner of the square, in the angle between Gloucester Place and Upper Berkeley Street, it was built for Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, a wealthy widow and patroness of the arts, to the design of the neoclassicist architect James Stuart.

Robert Dalzell, 5th Earl of Carnwath

Robert Dalzell, 5th Earl of Carnwath, (1687–1737), known as Sir Robert Dalzell, 3rd Baronet from 1689 until 1702, was a Scottish nobleman and Jacobite supporter during James Stuart, the Old Pretender's, unsuccessful rebellion in 1715 known as the Fifteen or Lord Mar's Revolt.

Sidlaws

The ruined observatory on Kinpurnie Hill was built by James Stuart-Mackenzie who owned the Kinpurnie estate and can be seen for many miles on the Strathmore side of the Sidlaws.

Sir Archibald Hamilton, 5th Baronet

Sir Archibald married Olga Mary Adelaide FitzGeorge, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir Adolphus FitzGeorge KCVO and Sophia Jane Holden, granddaughter of the Duke of Cambridge and first cousin to Queen Victoria on 18 December 1897 in London.

Tous Designer House

For the first time, the company has collaborated with Eugenia Martinez de Irujo, the daughter of the Duchess of Alba.

Viscount Stuart of Findhorn

James Stuart after his retirement from the House of Commons.

War of the Quadruple Alliance

It was also in 1719 that the Irish exile, the Duke of Ormonde, organized an expedition with extensive Spanish support to invade Britain and replace King George I with James Stuart, the Jacobite "Old Pretender".


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