4.6K views · 132 reactions | Competitors in the Flora MacDonald's Fancy Highland dance open during the 2019 Braemar Gathering in Aberdeenshire Scotland. This is danced in honour of Flora MacDonald, who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape to the Isle of Skye on his way to France in 1746, after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden. | Aberdeenshire Scotland | Facebook

Scottish Jacobite heroine, Flora MacDonald (animated portrait) - (1722 - 1790). During the Jacobite Risings, in 1746, Flora was living on the island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides when Prince Charles Edward Stuart took refuge there after the Battle of Culloden. Flora famously aided the Prince in his escape from the government forces, by disguising him as her Irish Maid, Betty Burke. After Charles’ escape, Flora was arrested and taken to the Tower of London. She was eventually released and la