<P> Queen Anne , the last monarch of the House of Stuart , died in 1714 , with no living children . Under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701 , she was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover , who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother , Elizabeth , a daughter of James VI and I . The Hanoverian victory at Culloden halted the Jacobite intent to overthrow the House of Hanover and restore the House of Stuart to the British throne ; Charles Stuart never again tried to challenge Hanoverian power in Great Britain . The conflict was the last pitched battle fought on British soil . </P>
<P> Queen Anne , the last monarch of the House of Stuart , died in 1714 , with no living children . Under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701 , she was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover , who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother , Elizabeth , a daughter of James VI and I . The Hanoverian victory at Culloden halted the Jacobite intent to overthrow the House of Hanover and restore the House of Stuart to the British throne ; Charles Stuart never again tried to challenge Hanoverian power in Great Britain . The conflict was the last pitched battle fought on British soil . </P>
who lost a lot of their power after the battle of culloden in 1746
who lost a lot of their power after the battle of culloden in 1746
Charles Stuart
Charles Stuart