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An attractive, sociable woman… One gets the impression, however, that every man who met her was a wee bit in love with Anne MackintoshE

Enter the term ‘Jacobite heroine’ into any internet search engine and the name ‘Flora MacDonald’ will pop up.

While Flora undoubtedly played a vital part in the escape of Prince Charles Edward Stuart – aka ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ – to France after the failure of the 1745-46 Jacobite rising, many other women were actively involved in the campaign to restore a Stuart monarch to the British throne, yet their stories are rarely told.

Of these now neglected women, none deserves the epithet ‘Jacobite heroine’ more than Lady Anne Mackintosh, whose story is remarkable.

The daughter of: , author Maggie Craig describes Anne as: “An attractive, sociable woman who’d had many suitors and admirers. One gets the impression, however, that every man who met her was a wee bit in love with Anne Mackintosh.”