Show MYSTERIES I 1 unsolved 0 n s 0 avd riddles that still puzzle A t h ties nore her and abroad lag who was the chevalier st george VAT HAT little is known of his royal personage or tills royal imposition as ninny many historians maintain la is comprised in the annals of the british court enst previous to the accession of william and mary and in the personal gossip and individual reports 0 of a number of persons some years later for the chevalier st george is even wore more of a mystery than the dauphin of france the man in the velvet mask or james ord at least it Is a matter of history that these personages existed vaille it Is by no means certain that the true chevalier st george was ever born ills supposed birth occurred at that period to in english history when the duki duke of york fork succeeded charles 11 with the title of james 11 II and immediately abely made himself extremely unpopular by espousing the church of rome ome in spite of the act which forever barred barre d catholics from the throne of england it was because of this that james eldest child mary a protestant and her husband william of orange invited to cross the channel and rescue the laws and religions of england A few months previous pre Ious to this however it was announced that the queen was about to give birth to another child but when the boy was born or at least presented to the court it was freely stated that the queen had bad been a party to an attempted swindle and that no child had been recently born to tier her at till all tills this report as macaulay declares gained ground because of the fact that a number dumber of persons who were particularly entitled to be present and whose testimony would have satisfied all minds accessible to reason were absent cut iu in spite of tile the doubt v aich ex isted as to the elie roaul parentage of t the infant there could be no doubt whatever that a mate male child was christened james francis E dward stuart later to become known as the chevalier st george and destined in time lime to be the father of connie brince charlie the elie young pretender rut cut returning to the mystery which cloaks the origin of the chevalier st george we flod find that out there lived to in england at the time a certain sir Theop lillus oglethorpe thorpe who had been brigadier general and under equerry to james 11 II and who had been forced to nee to france because be refused to serve against his former master la in sir Theop lillus family were two daughters anne and eleanor who during the time the family spent in france were reared as catholics and befriended the exiled ling king later when their father was permitted to return to england and resume his seat in parliament after taking an oath of allegiance to kin king william anne and eleanor oglethorpe also returned but because of their catholicism cabb oil it was necessary that they remain in biding accordingly they passed as friends of lady oglethorpe instead of being publicly recognized as her daughters among the young women who came to the house to do sewing was a certain F frances rances who was frankly curious as to the true identity of the two young friends of the family and finally succeeded not only in discovering their secret but to in arriving at what many historians claim Is the true account of tile the identity of the chevalier st SL george the story which F frances rances overheard and which she later gave to t the lie woric with a wealth of corroborative detail was hot tile the infant prince james had died a few hours after his birth and that tady oglethorpe had at the time owe hurried to london with her own son only a few lays days old this child being substituted tor for the dead prince the details of tills this account were ninde made public some five years later when aune anne oglethorpe was ell rested arrested and tried on a charge of having aided in the imprisonment of frances in order that the latter night might not divulge her brothers secret tile the case against miss oglethorpe was dismissed but the attempts of tile the chevalier st george to prove liis his claim to the british throne were thereafter treated with till amusement rather than formal consideration though the womans comans story has never been sub tant and tile lie mystery as to tile real identity of the chevalier st SL george remains to tills this day im I 1 by the wheeler syndic syndicate ate I 1 |