The BBC recently unearthed a portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Portraits are often more propaganda than true representation, and few leaders have been more romanticised than Charles Edward Stuart, figurehead for the Jacobite Uprising of 1745 .
On 4 March we’re publishing For The Good of the Cause, Seán Damer’s brilliant fictionalised account of the events behind the Skye Boat Song. Flora MacDonald agreed to spirit Bonnie Prince Charlie ‘over the sea to Skye’, but was it out of respect for him
