Louisa Stuart
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Louisa Stuart (styled countess of Albany, consort of Charles Edward Stuart, styled Charles III, known as the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie, 1752-1824) Autograph Letter signed "Louise de Stolberg Comtesse d'Albany" to Monseigneur Ridolfi at Rome, 2pp. & address panel, in French, 4to, Florence, 27th January 1799, requesting payment as it is her only form of income, arrangements for payment from her banker, Doctor Farnese and bewailing having to spend her time in chasing payment, folds, slightly stained, foxed and browned, torn where opened, framed and glazed.
***The marriage of Charles Edward Stuart and Louise was a connubial and political disaster. No child and the promised pension from France were forthcoming and the couple soon drifted apart, a separation being negotiated by Gustav III of Sweden in 1784. Long before that, in 1776 she began a long and enduring affair with the Piedmontese poet Count Vittorio Alfieri (d. 1803), which caused great scandal and precipitated a rupture with Charles's brother, Henry, Cardinal of York..
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