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The Life and Adventures of Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Caxton. Pininski, Peter (2010). Bonnie Prince Charlie. A Life. Amberley. ISBN 978-1-84868-194-1. Preston, Diana (1995). The Road to Culloden Moor. Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 45' Rebellion. Constable. ISBN 978-0094761704. Riding, Jacqueline (2016). Jacobites: A New History of the 45 ...
Bonnie Prince Charlie is a 1948 British historical film directed by Anthony Kimmins for London Films depicting the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion and the role of Bonnie Prince Charlie within it. Filmed in Technicolor, it stars David Niven, Jack Hawkins, and Margaret Leighton.
The "Bonnie Charlie" of the song is "Bonnie Prince Charlie" or the Young Pretender, the last serious Stuart claimant to the British throne. After Culloden, he escaped to the continent with the help of Flora MacDonald, and other loyal followers. The song expresses joy in Bonnie Charlie's escape from capture and possible execution, and celebrates ...
The text of the song gives an account of how Bonnie Prince Charlie, disguised as a serving maid, escaped in a small boat after the defeat of his Jacobite rising of 1745, with the aid of Flora MacDonald. The song draws on the motifs of Jacobitism although it was composed nearly a century and a half after the episode it describes. [3]
Charlotte Stuart, styled Duchess of Albany [1] (29 October 1753 – 17 November 1789) was the illegitimate daughter of the Jacobite pretender Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie" or the "Young Pretender") and his only child to survive infancy.
Charles Edward Stuart, aka Bonnie Prince Charlie; Charles Edward Stuart, American politician; Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Charles Edward Callwell, British soldier; Charles Edward Flower, British brewer responsible for the creation of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre; Charles Edward Jennings, Irish soldier
The Love of a Prince - Bonnie Prince Charlie in France, 1744-1748. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 978-0774802581. Douglas, Hugh (1975). Charles Edward Stuart. London: Hale. ISBN 978-0709148159. Douglas, Hugh (2003). Bonnie Prince Charlie in love. London: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 978-0750932752. Vaughan, Herbert M.
"Wha'll be King but Charlie?" also known as The News from Moidart, is a song about Bonnie Prince Charlie, sung to the tune of 'Tidy Woman', a traditional Irish jig the date of which is unclear but the tune was well known by 1745. [1] The lyrics were written by Caroline Nairne (1766–1845). [2]