Order of the Crown of Stuart

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

They seem fond of the the Divine Right principle and pretty Jacobite too.

But as they acknowledge that the line died out they could no doubt agree with Queen Victoria who could say "we are all Jacobites now."

Their gallery portrait of "Charles III" (Bonnie Prince Charlie) is most certainly NOT of him! (Look like another portrait of Charles I).

Also the protestant Stuarts (Mary II and Queen Anne) are not included in the gallery.

In the case of Mary II her father, James II (VII of Scotland), was still alive when she ascended (some would say usurped) his throne.

James II died in 1701, and was succeeded in the succession by this son, James III and VIII of Scotland (Jacobite reckoning). In 1702 William of Orange (William III husband of Mary II) dies and is succeeded by Anne, daughter of James II and sister of James III. As there was an exisiting senior male line, Anne's technical position was that of usurper of her brother's throne.

So the Jacobites, being absolute legitimists, recognize Mary II and Anne as de facto monarchs but not as de jure sovereigns, hence their exclusion from the line of succession in the gallery on their website.