Thanks for the info Gilmore.

I was thinking of those claims made about descendants of Charles Edward Stuart which still have their supporters.

The problem still remains that this line of descent was invalidated in British Law by the Act of Settlement as Henrietta ("Minette") became a Catholic upon her marriage to Phillipe, Duc D'Orleans and brother to Louis XIV.

By the time of the death of Cardinal York (Henry IX) the Hanoverian regime was too firmly entrenched to be seriously shifted and was producing British born progeny. Opposition to them came in Republican and Revolutionary form that challenged Monarchy itself rather than a harking back to past claims to Sovereignty.