Descendants of the Stuarts

154 THE DESCENDANTS.
abdicated in favour of his brother, Charles Pelix,
who incontinently ascended the Sardinian throne.
Victor Emanuel did not long survive his abdication,
dying in 1824. By his wife Theresa, eldest daughter
of Perdinand, Duke of Modena (brother of the Em-
perors Joseph and Leopold of Germany), he had
four daughters ; but, failing male issue, the crown
descended on his brother's death, in 1831, to the
junior dynasty of Savoy-Carignan. Our ancient
Stuart princes, therefore, reign no longer in Sardinia,
the lineal succession remaining in the daughters of
Victor Emanuel. These were :
b. 1V92. b. 1803. b. 1803. b. 1812.
Beatrice, Theresa, — Anne, — Christina,
m. Francis IV., m. Charles II., m. Ferdinand, m. Ferdinand II.,
Duke of Modena. Duke of Parma. Ex-Emperor of Austria, reigning King of
d isii' has no children the Two Sicilies,
d. 1836.
Beatrice, Victor Emanuel's eldest daughter, in
whom the Stuart representation continues, was born
in 1792. She married, June 20th, 1812, Erancis
IV., Duke of Modena, by whom she had two sons
and two daughters. The richness of the Duke
of Modena' s family in lineal pretensions is unri-
valled by any other dynasty in Europe, which will
be perceived when we state, that the Duke of
Modena himself is the representative of Charles I.,
his niece, Mary Theresa, the next in succession,
being his heiress; while his elder sister, Theresa,
married to Henry V., is titular Queen of France ;
and his younger, Mary, married to Don John,
brother of Charles VI., King of Spain (titular),
inherits the rights of that prince to the Spanish