Celtic badass - Flora MacDonald
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Celtic badass - One of the most badass and romantic characters in Scottish history is Flora MacDonald. She is famous for helping Bonnie Prince Charlie escape from Scotland after the defeat of the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The grandson of James II of England, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, or Bonnie Prince Charlie as he was affectionately known, had led the second Jacobite Uprising of 1745 to overthrow King George II, and failed, sending many a Scot to their grave, while he scurried off to the safety of a bottle in France.
The part that Flora played in the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie ‘over the sea to Skye’ is immortalized in the ‘Skye Boat Song’, published in 1884:
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