The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #1867   Message #2808802
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
11-Jan-10 - 01:22 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Skye Boat Song
Subject: RE: The Skye Boat Song
OK.
Teàrlach Eideard Louis John Casimir Silvester Severino Maria Stiùbhairt, most commonly transcribed into English as Charles Edward Stewart was the son of a Polish princess and part of a pan-European Catholic hierarchy who fancifully imagined he had a right to the thrones of Great Britain and Ireland. He was not "poor" but "ran like a rabbit through the glen leaving better folk than him to be butchered" at Culloden.