Lady Marie Therese Charlotte Bruce, later The Princess of Hornes, (1704–1736) was the daughter of Thomas Bruce, 3rd Earl of Elgin and his second wife Charlotte d'Argenteau, comtesse d'Esneux. She was born in Brussels, where her father had fled in 1697 to avoid being tried for treason. She was married to Maximilian, Prince of Hornes (1695–1763) on 17 June 1722. They had two children.[1]Their granddaughter, Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, was the unhappy wife of Charles Edward Stuart, the pretender to the English Crown.