In 1798 when Napoleon invades Rome, Cardinal Henry Stuart, last direct heir of the royal House of Stuart, is forced to flee from Frascati to seek refuge in the Kingdom of Naples. This is only the beginning of an adventurous two-year journey that drives him to Sicily, Corfu, Padua and Venice, bringing him into contact with many key figures of the period, like Horatio Nelson, Lord and Lady Hamilton, the volatile Queen of Naples, the spy master Spiridion Foresti, the Ottoman commander, Bey Abdul-Kadir and the reluctant Pope Pius VII, elected after a stormy conclave and crowned with a papier-mache tiara. Set against the background of one of the most turbulent periods in European history, the flight of Henry IX, the Jacobite's last Stuart king, is a little known and extraordinary story.
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