He is one of the most romanticized figures in Scottish history: a charismatic young prince, born and raised in exile, who stirred a Jacobite rising in the Scottish Highlands in a last-ditch attempt to restore his family to the British throne.
Though the 1745 rising failed, the prince, Charles Edward Stuart, was immortalized in the popular imagination as a tragic hero, nicknamed Bonnie Prince Charlie for his good looks.
A new recreation of the prince’s face as it might have looked when he led…
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