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Architect #InigoJones was a champion of #Palladian #Architecture, who was closely associated with the early #HouseOfStuart regime. When the #HouseOfHanover adopted new Palladianism, they formed a legitimate continuity between their #RoyalHouse and that of their Stuart ancestors, bypassing any authority over the Protestant throne from #ThePretender & the #Jacobite movement.
In Source: Royal #HouseofHanover
The #Jacobite nickname for #JamesEdwardStuart aka #ThePretender was the #Blackbird, a reference to his deposed father King James II; named ‘Black Boy’ by his Mother because of the darkness of his skin & eyes. The image of a #GoldenFlyingBird disguises the #Jacobite Blackbird symbol as the holy spirit descending to earth; also present in a #ParodyPainting inside #StClementDanes.
In Source: The Golden Flying Bird
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In 1725, #Jacobite #FreeMason #WilliamKent made an altarpiece of St. Cecilia for #StClementDanes church, who rejected it because of its likeness to the wife of #ThePretender, Maria Clementina Sobieska. In a display of loyalty to #KingGeorgeI & to squash support to the competing claim to the throne by #JamesEdwardStuart, the altarpiece was removed.
In Source: The Golden Flying Bird
In a #ParodyPainting of the controversial altarpiece by #WilliamKent, a satirical artist #WilliamHogarth painted a #Cherub & a #GoldenFlyingBird. These symbols which appear in the #Apse in #StMaryleStrand show loyalty to the #Blackbird, despite the repeated claim that these symbols & the angel playing a harp, have no connection to #ThePretender, his wife Sobieska & children.
In Source: The Golden Flying Bird
The decorative #WhiteRose in the #PlasterworkCeiling of #StMaryLeStrand is a reference to the #Jacobite movement to restore the exiled Catholic King #JamesEdwardStuart aka #ThePretender to the throne. Before the #JacobiteRebellion, Jacobites met to plot in secret & the white rose or white cockade, a flower made of ribbon, was worn to identify loyalty - also worn in battle.
In Source: White Ceiling Roses
#JohnErskine, 6th Earl of Mar was a Scottish aristocrat, politician & custodian of the infant #JamesEdwardStuart, James VI, Regent of Scotland. Believing his rightful place was on the throne of England James was nicknamed #ThePretender & his son, #CharlesEdwardStuart, known as #TheYoungPretender, revived the #KnightsTemplar order for battle in the #JacobiteRebellion of 1745.
In Source: The Golden Triangle
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