Descendants of the Stuarts

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by the unanimous advice of the young king's
ministers, it became necessary to place him
under restraint, his rage and indignation were
boundless.
Victor Amadeus did not long survive the com-
pulsory indignities he had brought upon himself.
Worn out by the turbulence of his feelings and
the exciting scenes he had passed through, he sank
into a deep melancholy, from which he never re-
covered. He died at Moncallier, on the 31st of
October, 1732, in the sixty-seventh year of his age,
and thirtieth from his accession to the throne ;
surviving his abdication only two years. *' Sad
termination," writes Balbo, " of one of the longest,
greatest and happiest reigns for Piedmont ! " Victor
had issue by his wife, Queen Anne, besides two
children who died in infancy, two sons and two
daughters, viz. —
b. 1699. b. iroi, b. 1685. b. 1688.
Victor Philip, — Charle.s Emanuel III. —Adelaide, m. Louis, — Mary Louisa,
Prince of Piedmont, ^^S of Sardinia, Dukeof Biu-gundy, m.PhilipV.,KjngofSpain,
d. s. p. 1715. d. 1773. d, 1712. d. 1714,
leaving issue.
b. 1706. b. 1713.
Louis L — Ferdinand VI.
King of Spain, King of Spain,
d. s. p. 1724. d. s. p. 1759.
Charles Emanuel, Anne's second son, in whom
the representation of the Stuart family vested,
succeeded his father, Victor Amadeus, on the