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Article: Arise Polish pretender to Stuart crown
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- April 14, 2002
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HE sounds like a man who still cannot fully believe what he has
discovered.
After five years of detailed research, Peter Pininski - a Scottish-
Polish art historian - claims to have proved that he is a direct
descendent of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
His path through his family tree involves multiple illegitimate
births, changes of names and adoptions, to provide proof, he claims,
that his great-great-great-great grandmother, Marie-Victoire de
Rohan, was Bonnie Prince Charlie's grand-daughter.
Speaking exclusively to Scotland on Sunday of his search, which is
detailed in a book to be published later this month, Pininski said:
"I suppose I was unnerved at times during my research - there were a ...