Jacobite

Jacobitism was a movement to restore the descendants of the Stuart King James VII and II to the British throne. The first claimant, Prince James Francis Edward (known as 'the Old Pretender') was exiled first in France, then Italy, from where he planned unsuccessful attempts to claim the throne. His son Prince Charles Edward (known as 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' or 'the Young Pretender') famously invaded Britain in 1745, but after some military successes was finally defeated at Culloden in 1746.

The Stuarts (The Stewarts)

A British royal dynasty that began in 1603 with the union of the crowns of Scotland and England under King James VI and I (the last of the Scottish Stuart monarchs) and lasted until 1714. The Stuart reign included a civil war and short-lived republic after the execution of Charles I. The monarchy was restored with Charles II as king in 1660 but James II was deposed shortly afterwards in 1689 by William and Mary of Orange in the 'Glorious Revolution'. After the Act of Settlement in 1701, only Protestants could hold the throne and the Stuart line ended with the death of Queen Anne.