FLAWLESS FLORA
Scotland’s most famous heroine, there’s hardly a bad word written about Flora MacDonald. Her gravestone memorial, scribed by English writer Dr Johnson, says it all: “Flora MacDonald. Preserver of Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Her name will be mentioned in history and if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour.”
Born in South Uist, where a monument marks the spot, and buried at Kilmuir Cemetery in north Skye, not many people know that Flora spent almost four years living in North Carolina. Indeed, following her world-renowned rescue of Bonnie Prince Charlie – pretender to the Scottish throne – after his failed uprising, Flora’s life was punctuated with several further
