BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIEdiscoverbritainmag.com 43SCOT TISH CREATIVE/VISIT SCOTLAND/KENNY LAM/THE PICTURE ART COLLECTION/ALAMYamid cheering clansmen, he raised his father’s
standard to start the campaign. The towering
Glenfinnan Monument at the head of Loch
Shiel stands near the spot and the visitor
centre explores what happened in greater
detail. Emboldened by a growing army, Prince
Charles struck south, taking Perth and
Edinburgh. Troops sent against
him were – to the shock of
the British government –
defeated within minutes
at Prestonpans,
East Lothian,
on 21 September.
For six weeks
Charles held court
at the Palace of
Holyroodhouse in
Edinburgh, the high
point of his royal career
that passed in a whirl of
audiences and balls. The fair-
faced Prince appeared “cut out for
enchanting his beholders” in a
“Blue Grogrum Coat trimmed with Gold lace
and a lac’d Red Wastcoat and Breeches” [sic],
wearing the Star and Garter insignia and
a hat with white feather and white cockade,
the symbol of the Jacobite cause.Eager to press further south, Charles took the
English city of Derby on 4 December. A mere
125 miles away in London, George II panicked
and prepared to evacuate the royal family to
the continent. However, English and Welsh
Jacobites seemed slow to join the uprising
and the Prince’s generals including
Lord George Murray talked
a furious Charles into
returning to Scotland.
It was a game changer.
By January 1746
the Prince’s men were
stationed around
Stirling, while he set
up headquarters at
Bannockburn House,
the home of Sir Hugh
Paterson, 2nd Baronet
of Bannockburn and
a participant in the early
Jacobite Rising of 1715.
(The house is now in public
ownership and open to visitors on
selected dates).
A siege of Stirling Castle failed to wrest
it from government hands but the Jacobites
scored a victory at the Battle of Falkirk Muir on
17 January. Today you can follow a battle trailClockwise from top:
The Jacobite steam
train on the Loch
nan Uamh viaduct;
a clan gravestone at
Culloden; Charles’
mistress, Clementina
➤ Walkinshaw040-044_DB_Bonnie Prince Charlie.indd 43 26/02/2020 12:23BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIEdiscoverbritainmag.com 43SCOT TISH CREATIVE/VISIT SCOTLAND/KENNY LAM/THE PICTURE ART COLLECTION/ALAMY
amid cheering clansmen, he raised his father’s
standard to start the campaign. The towering
Glenfinnan Monument at the head of Loch
Shiel stands near the spot and the visitor
centre explores what happened in greater
detail. Emboldened by a growing army, Prince
Charles struck south, taking Perth and
Edinburgh. Troops sent against
him were – to the shock of
the British government –
defeated within minutes
at Prestonpans,
East Lothian,
on 21 September.
For six weeks
Charles held court
at the Palace of
Holyroodhouse in
Edinburgh, the high
point of his royal career
that passed in a whirl of
audiences and balls. The fair-
faced Prince appeared “cut out for
enchanting his beholders” in a
“Blue Grogrum Coat trimmed with Gold lace
and a lac’d Red Wastcoat and Breeches” [sic],
wearing the Star and Garter insignia and
a hat with white feather and white cockade,
the symbol of the Jacobite cause.Eager to press further south, Charles took the
English city of Derby on 4 December. A mere
125 miles away in London, George II panicked
and prepared to evacuate the royal family to
the continent. However, English and Welsh
Jacobites seemed slow to join the uprising
and the Prince’s generals including
Lord George Murray talked
a furious Charles into
returning to Scotland.
It was a game changer.
By January 1746
the Prince’s men were
stationed around
Stirling, while he set
up headquarters at
Bannockburn House,
the home of Sir Hugh
Paterson, 2nd Baronet
of Bannockburn and
a participant in the early
Jacobite Rising of 1715.
(The house is now in public
ownership and open to visitors on
selected dates).
A siege of Stirling Castle failed to wrest
it from government hands but the Jacobites
scored a victory at the Battle of Falkirk Muir on
17 January. Today you can follow a battle trailClockwise from top:
The Jacobite steam
train on the Loch
nan Uamh viaduct;
a clan gravestone at
Culloden; Charles’
mistress, Clementina
➤ Walkinshaw