Eriskay
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Eriskay, from the Old Norse for "Eric's Isle", is an island and community council area of the Outer Hebrides in northern Scotland with a population of 160. It lies between South Uist and Barra and is
Prince’s Beach with the Isle of Lingay in the background on the left, Isle of Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides
The Eriskay shore
Eriskay, looking north towards Easabhal on South Uist
Eriskay pony with the coastal village of Rubha Ban and the Isle of South Uist in the background.
Charles Edward Stuart
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Charles Edward Louis John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart, making him the grandson of James VII and II, and the Stuart claimant to the thrones of Englan
Eriskay
…a local history museum. At the start of the Jacobite rising of 1745, the privateer Du Teillay arrived at Eriskay On 2 August 1745 and temporarily put Prince Charles Edward Stuart and the Seven Men of Moidart ashore. The sandy beach where the prince first set foot upon Scottish soil is called in his honour Coilleag a' Phrionnsa…
Portrait by Allan Ramsay, 1745
Charles painted as a five year old in 1725 by the court painter Antonio David
Portrait by William Mosman, painted circa 1737
Charles, painted in 1742, by the French court painter Louis Tocqué