Michel Lafosse

Michel Lafosse (born in Brussels in 1958) claims to be a descendant in the male line of Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") and thus the legitimate Jacobite claimant to the throne of the former Kingdom of Scotland. He calls himself Prince Michael of Albany, based on the usage of the alias "Earl of Albany" by his alleged ancestor.

The Catholic branch of the House of Stuart became extinct in the male line with the death in 1807 of Henry Stuart, self-styled "King Henry IX." He had succeeded his elder brother, Charles Edward Stuart, in 1788. (Charles left one illegitimate daughter, Clementina, who died without issue.) The Jacobite claim has since devolved on various continental Catholic dynasties, most recently the Wittelsbach dynasty, whose head, the Duke of Bavaria, is the technical heir to the Stuart claims.

Lafosse claims that Charles Stuart secretly obtained a papal annullment of his marriage to Princess Louise of Stolberg, secretly remarried a woman called Marguerite O'Dea d'Audibert de Lussan, Comtesse de Massillan, and in 1786 had a legitimate son, Edward James Stuart, Count Stuarton, Count of Albany, from whom he claims to be descended. There is no evidence for any of these events or the existence of such a child.

External links

• Fantasy Royalty - a complete exposure of Lafosse as an imposter
• a page detailing the unlikelihood of his claims