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Article: THE REAL LAST KING OF SCOTLAND; German duke with Stuart blood could claim throne if Act of Settlement is axed.(Features)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- April 8, 2008
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Byline: By Tom Hamilton
THIS is the man who can lay claim to the title of the next - and possibly the last - King of Scotland.
Meet the Duke of Bavaria, Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria Herzog von Bayern, head of the Wittelsbach family.
The 74-year-old German aristocrat is the blood descendant of the 17th-century King Charles I.
And with talks of repealing the 1701 Act of Settlement, the ban on Catholics on the throne will be removed.
Ditching the Act, which many Catholics perceive as a historic injustice, would technically make ...
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