There were, of course more than fifty recognized claimants to the throne on the disappearance of James II - though these were not specifically sons of James of course! Nor of his brother Charles II.
When Henry Sydney and Thomas Osbourne brought in the House of Orange-Nassau, those Stewarts who I suppose 'missed out' turned to other matters - piracy, theater, all kinds of things.
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| Chivas Regal 'war-room' and Savile Row |
Most of these people had very rare British surnames, and often those names are composites of French place-names combined with English or Welsh or Scots or Irish phrases and occasionally names.
One of these families is the 'Coverdale' family who were basically in everything from tea shipping and merchant trading as well as stage and theatrical productions and music and dance. Music, of course, especially of the more formal kind, was not a cheap business, as the paper stock used was the first grade even before bank certificate paper.
Here we have David Coverdale, originally from Yorkshire, more or less seventy years old now - whose grandmother was the leader of a Dance and Music troupe in Scotland and England known as 'Clara Coverdale's Nine Dancing Dots...'
The Coverdales are one of the legitimate lines to the Stewart Kings, also being closely related to Louis the 'Sun King' of France.
What kind of place might Paris be today, with David, King of France and Britain leading the band there, instead of 'Macron...'
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