Clementina Walkinshaw brought up her grandchildren (sired by Charlotte's lover, archbishop Ferdinand de Rohan) and lived until 1802, in her later years taking up residence in Switzerland.

[7] However, he was a committed Jacobite who had fought for James Francis Edward Stuart in the rising of 1715, and had been captured at the Battle of Sheriffmuir, before escaping from Stirling Castle and fleeing to Europe.

In 1752, he heard that Clementina, whom he had already met with her uncle, was at Dunkirk and in some financial difficulties, so he sent 50 louis d'ors to help her and then dispatched Sir Henry Goring to entreat her to come to Ghent and live with him as his mistress.

Charles was already a disillusioned, angry alcoholic when they began living together, and he became violent towards Clementina and insanely possessive of her,[11] treating her as a "submissive whipping post".

[13] James agreed to pay her an annuity of 10,000 livres and, in July 1760, there is evidence to suggest he aided her escape from the watchful Charles, with the seven-year-old Charlotte, to the convent of the Nuns of the Visitation in Paris.

[14] For the next twelve years, Clementina and Charlotte continued to live in various French convents, supported by the 10,000 livre pension granted by James Stuart.

On 17 November 1789, Charlotte died unmarried at age 36 of liver cancer at Palazzo Vizzani Sanguinetti, a Renaissance palace located in Bologna.

Clementina Walkinshaw looked after her illegitimate grandchildren and lived until 1802, in her later years taking up residence in Switzerland and bringing up her grandson Roehenstart in the reformed faith.

Scottish singer-songwriter Brian McNeill composed the song "How the Foreign Winds Do Blaw" on his tenth studio album The Baltic tae Byzantium about Walkinshaw.