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Charles Edward Stuart

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Charles Edward Stuart: see Stuart, Charles Edward Stuart or Stewart, Charles Edward, 1720–88, claimant to the British throne, b. Rome. First son of James Francis Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender), he was known as Bonnie Prince Charlie and as the Young
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The 45s, so named to distinguish between the Jacobite rebellions, rose not in 1744 but in 1745 as the name suggests and did not follow the banner of James Edward Stuart, who fled and was deposed after the battle of the Boyne, but Charles Edward Stuart, (Bonnie Prince Charlie), who fled after the battle of Culloden.
Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") was not the son of James II but his grandson.
Charles Edward Stuart, aka Bonnie Prince Charlie,was forced to flee when his Jacobite Rebellion ended a year later on Culloden Moor in 1746.
 
 
 
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