Who was James's famous elder son?
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Charles Edward Stuart
Answer
Charles Edward Stuart, also known as the Young Pretender or Bonnie Prince Charlie, was James's famous elder son, leading the Jacobite rising of 1745 in Scotland to reclaim the throne for the deposed Stuart dynasty. He became a romantic and tragic figure in British history, embodying the Jacobite cause and the failure of the Highland clans to restore the Stuarts.
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