2007-02-03 22:48:43 · 8 answers · asked by beth 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
Charles Stuart was disguised as Flora MacDonald's maid, and fled with her to the Isle of Skye right under the noses of the English. A couple of months later, he was able to take ship to France and permanent exile on the Continent. His flight is also significant in that it is the last time that Prince Charles Stuart appears as anything more than a minor footnote in the annals of history.
There is a statue of Flora MacDonald in Inverness (and probably in lots of other places in Scotland) that stands to her ingenuity and courage.
2007-02-04 12:41:54 · answer #1 · answered by Lady Yaz 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Isle of Skye....
Speed bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing,
Onward, the sailors cry
Carry the lad that's born to be king
Over the sea to skye
Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar,
Thunder clouds rend the air;
Baffled our foe's stand on the shore
Follow they will not dare
Speed bonnie boat....
Though the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep
Ocean's a royal bed
Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep
Watch by your weary head
Speed bonnie boat....
Many's the lad fought on that day
Well the claymore could wield
When the night came, silently lay
Dead on Culloden's field
Speed bonnie boat...
Burned are our homes, exile and death
Scatter the loyal men
Yet, e'er the sword cool in the sheath,
Charlie will come again.
Speed bonnie boat...
2007-02-04 09:23:29 · answer #2 · answered by sarch_uk 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, in 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie escaped to Skye dressed as a woman - 'Betty Burke', Flora MacDonald's maid.
2007-02-04 08:39:15 · answer #3 · answered by pompeii 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
He was helped out of Scotland by Flora Macdonald from the Isle of Skye (hence the skye boat song). He boarded a French frigate and sailed to France in exile. He did briefly live in Italy shortly after
2007-02-04 06:58:07 · answer #4 · answered by Ian G 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He escaped to France.
2007-02-04 15:02:25 · answer #5 · answered by monkeyface 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
France in 1715, I think - although they later expelled him as they needed to make peace with Britain
2007-02-04 06:55:43 · answer #6 · answered by rose_merrick 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
France,he left everyone in the lurch,he was not as history portrays him,in actual fact he was an argumentive,effeminate italian dwarf!
2007-02-04 08:18:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
my great great grans
2007-02-06 04:18:25 · answer #8 · answered by lisa h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋