Princess Clementina Sobieska never set foot anywhere in Britain. However, as the wife of James Stuart, and the mother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, she was a Jacobite figure of great importance. In September 1718, she left her home in Poland for Italy to be married. The prospect of more heirs to the Stuart line unsettled the British, so they pressured Emperor Charles VI to prevent the marriage. This book is an account of her arduous journey, which included being kidnapped, a daring late-night rescue, and a perilous cross-country dash complete with a carriage breakdown; the escape was the talk of Europe. This book was written by Charles Wogan, the young Irish Jacobite who rescued and delivered the princess. It does more than relate events; it praises her extravagantly and highlights her illustrious family connections to showcase her as a worthy Stuart Queen; at the tender age of 17, the princess already displays grace and “fortitude” in dreadful circumstances. As is fitting in a propaganda war, later the same year a responding volley was fired with the publication of: Remarks Upon A Jacobite Pamphlet Privately Handed About…. That book attempts to reverse any good that came to the Stuart family from Female Fortitude.

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