Flora MacDonald
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Flora MacDonald 1722 to 5 March 1790, is best known for helping Charles Edward Stuart evade government troops after the Battle of Culloden in April 1746. Her family had generally backed the government during the 1745 Rising, and MacDonald later claimed to have assisted Charles out of sympathy for his situation.
Flora Macdonald by Allan Ramsay c. 1749–1750; the roses are a Jacobite symbol. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Sunset on South Uist, where MacDonald was born in 1722
Flora's grave in Kilmuir Cemetery, Skye
1896 statue, Inverness Castle
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 England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1766 as Charles III. During his lifetime, he was also known as "the Young Pretender" and "the Young Chevalier"; in popular memory, he is known as Bonnie Prince Charlie.
Charles Edward Stuart by Allan Ramsay, painted at Holyrood Palace, late autumn 1745
Portrait by William Mosman
Charles Edward as the Jacobite leader (a painting in Traquair House, attributed to the circle of Louis Tocqué)
A 1907 illustration of Prince Charles seen on the battlefield