deacon there that year. In 1823 his mother married again, to naval officer , brother of the adopted son of the Duke of Bouillon, but her place and date of death have not yet been found. Backhurst concludes that Madame Nikorowicz was actually Marie Victoire de Thorigny, and more likely to have been the illegitimate daughter of Jules, Prince de Rohan, brother of Ferdinand and thus a first cousin to Victoire Adelaide and without the Stuart descent. Pininski had argued that Backhurst's interpretation had been based on a destroyed document that was "reconstituted" seventy years later and that no document confirmed the birth of Marie Victoire's son. In Jacobite folklore Charlotte Stuart's story did not take long to enter into the Jacobite folklore. The Scots poet, Robert Burns (1759–96), a near contemporary, wrote a number of works celebrating the tragic romanticism of the Jacobite cause. Amongst them was The Bonnie Lass of Albanie, a lament to Charlotte Stuart probably written at the time of her death. Indeed, evidence from an unpublished collection of letters from Burns to Robert Ainslie reveals the Poet's fascination with Charlotte, in that he considered naming one of his own illegitimate children Charlotte after her. Burns wrote: This lovely maid's of royal blood, That ruled Albion's kingdoms three; But Oh, Alas! for her bonnie face, They hae wrang'd the lass of Albany. Notes and references Sources Douglas, Hugh (2004) "Walkinshaw, Clementine, styled countess of Albestroff (c.1720–1802)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, , retrieved 2007-12-14 (subscription required) Magnusson, Magnus, Scotland: The Story of a Nation London, 2000 HarperCollins Pininski, Peter, The Stuarts' Last Secret Tuckwell Press, 2001 Pittock, Murray G. H. (September 2004; online edn, May 2006) "Charles Edward (1720–1788)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, , retrieved 2007-12-14 (subscription required) Uilleam Stiùbhart, Domhnall, The cursed fruits of Charlie's loins? in The Scotsman Fri 15 April 2005 (The Scotsman.com) Further reading External links Stuart, Charlotte Duchess of Albany Stuart, Charlotte Duchess of Albany People from Liège Charlotte Illegitimate children of British monarchs Jacobites Deaths from liver cancer 18th-century Scottish women Albany, Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Peers created by Charles Edward Stuart