Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart, known to Jacobites as The Princess Royal, was the last child of James II and VII, the deposed king of England, Scotland and Ireland, by his second wife Mary of Modena. Like her brother James Francis Edward Stuart, Louisa Maria was a Roman Catholic, which, under the Act of Settlement 1701, debarred them both from succession to the British throne after the death of their Protestant half-sister Anne, Queen of Great Britain.
Portrait, c. 1708–10
Louisa's birthplace, the Château of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Portrait by Alexis Simon Belle, c. 1704
Louisa Maria's guardian Antonin Nompar de Caumont, 1st Duke of Lauzun, by Alexis Simon Belle
Mary of Modena was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland as the second wife of James II and VII. A devout Catholic, Mary married the widower James, who was then the younger brother and heir presumptive of Charles II. She was devoted to James and their children, two of whom survived to adulthood: the Jacobite claimant to the thrones, James Francis Edward, and Louisa Maria Teresa.
Portrait by Godfrey Kneller, c. 1687
Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena, Mary's father, in a portrait by Justus Sustermans
James, Duke of York, in a portrait by Sir Peter Lely
Mary in the year of her husband's accession, 1685, in a painting by Willem Wissing
