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Although born in Belgium as Michel Roger Lafosse, he became a naturalized British citizen in the 1990s and has since used the name Michael James Alexander Stewart of Albany. In 1998 he authored The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland, within which he makes the case for his ancestral ties to the Royal House of Stuart.
His website stated that he was a diplomat of the self-styled order Federation of Autonomous Priories of the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta (not the SMOM), and a cultural attaché at the Knights of Malta's embassy in the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe in West Africa; and that he has been awarded the United Nations 2001 "Volunteer Service Medal" under the name "Albany".
In 2005 he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the "Order of St. George" under the name "Prince Michael of Scotland". Lafosse claimed to be the Fons Honorum and Grand Protector of The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court and Order in Britain and the English speaking world. The heraldry website heraldica.org does not list the "Noble Order of the Guards of St Germain" as a genuine Order of Chivalry.
On 18 June 2006 the Sunday Mail reported that Lafosse was to be deported after having lost British citizenship because, it is alleged, he submitted a forged birth certificate.
On 23 July 2006 the Sunday Mail reported that, in the wake of the publicity surrounding his claims and his loss of British citizenship, he had sold up his house in Edinburgh and returned to Belgium to live with his mother.
His latest book, co-authored with Walid Amine Salhab, is The Knights Templar of the Middle East: The Hidden History of the Islamic Origins of Freemasonry (2006).
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