Who was Flora Macdonald? Scotland's trailblazers, legends, creators and innovators

Flora Macdonald (1722-1790) courageously helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape ‘over the sea to Skye’, a story that is one of Scotland’s most enduring legends. After Prince Charlie’s disastrous defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, he was on the run from the British Army and hiding in the Hebrides. Flora took a huge personal risk in concealing him as her maid ‘Betty Burke’ and helping him evade the British, before eventually reaching the safety of France.

But what happened to Flora after this? This film looks at Flora’s heroic act, and then some of the less well-known adventures she undertook. What happened after Charlie escaped and she was arrested for helping him? Why did she help him? And what became of her later in life as she and her family emigrated to America, a colony on the brink of war with Britain?

Watch to discover some of the lesser-known facts about the life of one of Scotland’s celebrated Jacobite heroines.

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