World News – AU – Bonnie Prince Charlie: Hero or Coward?

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Jacqueline Riding ponders whether the Jacobite prince was a brave freedom fighter or a haughty coward

Since leading a failed Jacobite uprising against the British Crown in 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie has shared opinion. He was a courageous freedom fighter for his followers; to his critics a good-less Popinjay on 300 On the 50th anniversary of his birth, Jacqueline Riding examines the life and legacy of the controversial prince

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