The Duke of Bavaria, Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria, is first in line to the Jacobite succession for the British crown. He is a descendant of King Charles I's daughter

Henrietta Anne and, if not for the 1701 Act of Settlement banning Roman Catholics from ascending the throne, he may have been King of England and Scotland. Despite his connection to the throne, the Duke has expressed no interest in pursuing his claim. His family's link to the English crown stems from the Stuart dynasty, which first arrived in England with King James I of England and VI of Scotland.

After James II was deposed, his descendants, James Francis Edward Stuart and Charles Edward Stuart, both fought in military campaigns to regain the throne for the Catholic Jacobite cause but were unsuccessful. The direct male line of succession to the Stuart crown ended in 1807 with the death of Henry IX, Cardinal Duke of York. It then passed through a series of European royal houses before settling with the House of Wittelsbach. Photo by Christoph Wagener, Wikimedia commons.