The story of the Jacobites is often reduced to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 1745 rebellion, with limited consideration of what Charles was actually fighting for. Behind that is the Stuart claim ...
Prince Charles Edward Stuart - or Bonnie Prince Charlie as he is often known - was the grandson of James II, who was King of England in 1685. He played a significant role in the 1745 Jacobite ...
Charles Edward Stuart, or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' as he became known, was the grandson of the deposed Catholic King James II - who had fled to France from Protestant William of Orange's invading ...
After leaving Calder Street school in Blantyre, he worked briefly as an apprentice in a Glasgow dental laboratory, becoming the union rep and joining the Labour Party Young Socialists, which he ...
Modern readers may take time to consider the contrast here with the more effeminate depictions of Bonnie Prince Charlie in the centuries since the '45; his 'manliness' here is also unmistakable ...
They include: Advertisement -- Pope Callixtus III, born Alfonso de Borgia, in 1378 -- Charles Edward Stuart, Scotland's "Bonnie Prince Charlie," in 1720 -- Artist Henri Matisse in 1869 ...