11 Facts About Clementina Walkinshaw

Clementina Maria Sophia Walkinshaw was the mistress of the Jacobite claimant Charles Edward Stuart.

Clementina Walkinshaw brought up her grandchildren and lived until 1802, in her later years taking up residence in Switzerland.

Clementina Walkinshaw grew up in Rome, possibly born thence, and as such would have known Charles from a young age; indeed, she was said to have been the goddaughter of his mother Clementina Sobieska.

Clementina Walkinshaw was educated on the Continent, and later converted to Roman Catholicism.

Clementina Walkinshaw contacted Charles's staunchly Roman Catholic father James Stuart and expressed a desire to secure a Catholic education for Charlotte and to retire to a convent.

Clementina Walkinshaw left a letter for Charles expressing her devotion to him but complaining she had to flee in fear of her life.

Charles never forgave Clementina Walkinshaw for depriving him of "ye cheild", and stubbornly refused to pay anything for their support.

Charlotte, in need of money for her and Clementina Walkinshaw, settled with her father in Florence as his caretaker.

In Charlotte's will, written three days before her death, stated that Clementina Walkinshaw would be left 50,000 livres and an annuity of 15,000.

Clementina Walkinshaw looked after her illegitimate grandchildren and lived until 1802, in her later years taking up residence in Switzerland and bringing up her grandson Roehenstart in the reformed faith.

Clementina Walkinshaw is a minor character in the novel Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott.