First, Jane, Prince Rupprecht attended Queen Victoria's jubilee representing the House of Wittelsbach, as you say - not the Royal House of Stuart. Secondly, whatever titles that deluded extremists might have used to refer to his mother, she never referred to herself as Mary IV and III, nor, similarly, did any of her predecessors in the genealogically senior Stuart succession make claims to it, after the death of Cardinal Stuart. Thirdly, this is not to say that the family were/are not acutely aware, even proud, of their status as Stuart heirs.
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