Escape dressed as a maid
After Culloden in 1746, Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, escaped to Skye disguised as Betty Burke, an Irish maid travelling with Flora MacDonald.
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Charles Edward Stuart
1720–1788 · Stuart
Jacobite pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France;. Born at Rome. Died at Palazzo Muti.
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Family
- Father
- James Francis Edward Stuart, Prince of Wales
- Mother
- Maria Clementina Sobieska
- Married
- Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern 1772
- Siblings (1)
- Henry Benedict Stuart 1725
Related to
- Charles Edward Stuart was the 26× great-grandson of Charlemagne.
- Charles Edward Stuart was the third cousin 4 times removed of Victoria.
- Charles Edward Stuart was the first cousin twice removed of Louis XIV of France.