Today's Flickr photo with the most hits; Bonnie Prince Charlie's death mask. Inverness Museum.
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Today's Flickr photo with the most hits; Bonnie Prince Charlie's death mask. Inverness Museum.
#inverness #CharlesEdwardStuart #BonniePrinceCharlie #DeathMask
Rare Jacobite Glasses: A Treasured Collection Up for Auction!
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The Skye Boat Song is about Bonnie Prince Charlie. It tells of the time that he dressed as an Irish maid called Betty Burke and sailed with Flora MacDonald and five boatmen to the Isle of Skye, across the treacherous waters of the Minch, under cover of night, to escape capture by Hanoverian troops.
10 things you might not know about Bonnie Prince Charlie:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2023/12/31-december-bonnie-prince-charlie.html
Two neighbouring plaques in the Trongate/Argyle Street area of Glasgow commemorating visits by two of the 18th Century's most famous Scots. Neither Burns nor Bonnie Prince Charlie are usually associated with Glasgow, or with each other, yet this is where their histories come together (metaphorically at any rate).
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An odd one to top today's Flickr list: the death mask of Bonnie Prince Charlie (Inverness Museum)
University of Dundee's Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification reconstruct Bonnie Prince Charlie's face, using date from his death mask https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66533482
The then Prince Charles visited Iceland (a few times I think) to go salmon fishing. My wife's great-aunt once told me about the impact this had on the village of Vopnafjörður. Apparently many young women there were quite excited about the prince ... untill he actually showed up.