      charles edward louis john casimir sylvester severino maria stuart (31 december 1720&nbsp;â 31 january 1788), commonly known in britain during his lifetime as the young pretender, and often referred to in retrospective accounts as bonnie prince charlie, was the second jacobite pretender to the thrones of england, scotland, and ireland. this claim was as the eldest son of james francis edward stuart, himself the son of james ii of england. charles is perhaps best known as the instigator of the unsuccessful jacobite uprising of 1745, in which he led an insurrection to restore his family to the throne of the kingdom of great britain, which ended in defeat at the battle of culloden that effectively ended the jacobite cause. charles's flight from scotland after the uprising has rendered him a romantic figure of heroic failure in some later representations.charles edward stuart: a tragedy in many acts by frank mclynn in 1759 he was involved in a [[plann
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