Flora MacDonald's Fancy

Highland history took a new direction in 1745 when many of the Highland clans, led by Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie), rose against the British Government in a last desperate attempt to wrest the British Crown back from the Hanovarian dynasty. The attempt ended in disaster. Flora MacDonald helped the prince escape English forces after his final defeat at the Battle of Culloden Mor.

Flora decided to smuggle Bonnie Prince Charlie to Skye dressed as her Irish maid. She helped the prince escape from North Uist to Skye in a rowboat.

Later she fled Scotland and settled in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina, but returned home to Skye later in life.