Blank Hi all Thought you might appreciate this extract from the BBC News site : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8116431.stm Regards Les =================== Queen visit is Culloden 'first' The Queen has visited Culloden Battlefield . . . in the Highlands. She became the first British monarch to set foot on the battlefield - the site of the Jacobite defeat of 1746. Archaeologist and Culloden expert Dr Tony Pollard said her visit was a "landmark" event in the history of the site. Culloden was the last battle fought on British soil. IT brought an end to a major military campaign by Charles Edward Stuart - Bonnie Prince Charlie - to claim the British throne. June 1746 was a key time in the hunt for the prince and saw him aided by Flora Macdonald. She famously took him to Portree on Skye while he was disguised in women's clothing and pretending to be an Irish maiden by the name of Betty Burke. MacDonald was later arrested and sent to the Tower of London. Eventually, at Loch nan Uamh near Arisaig, two French vessels L'Heureux and Le Prince Conti and their crews reached Prince Charlie and he was taken to France. The Queen will be given a tour of Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, which opened in December 2007. Its owners the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) spent £9.5m constructing and fitting out the building and restoring the battlefield. Dr Pollard, of the University of Glasgow's Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, said: "The Queen's visit is an important landmark for the history of Culloden battlefield. The visit should be regarded as an honour to all of those who died in the battle and its aftermath "Bonnie Prince Charlie, grandson of James VII and II who was deposed in 1688, and the Duke of Cumberland, second son of George II, were both present during the battle, leading the opposing armies. "The visit should be regarded as an honour to all of those who died in the battle and its aftermath and represents a welcome contribution to long healing process which has followed the events of 16 April 1746." He added: "The visit is also a recognition of the first class status of the National Trust Visitor Centre and battlefield site which is an international flagship for the public presentation of historic battlefields." ===================

260 years still feels like a short time for people with long memories... There's a lot of descendants of exiles out here. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Horn" <Leshorn@ythanonich.freeserve.co.uk> To: "Argyll Rootsweb" <sct-argyll@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:55 AM Subject: Re: [ARGYLL] HM Queen Elizabeth's visit to Culloden Blank Hi all Thought you might appreciate this extract from the BBC News site : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8116431.stm Regards Les =================== Queen visit is Culloden 'first' The Queen has visited Culloden Battlefield . . . in the Highlands. She became the first British monarch to set foot on the battlefield - the site of the Jacobite defeat of 1746. Archaeologist and Culloden expert Dr Tony Pollard said her visit was a "landmark" event in the history of the site. Culloden was the last battle fought on British soil. IT brought an end to a major military campaign by Charles Edward Stuart - Bonnie Prince Charlie - to claim the British throne. June 1746 was a key time in the hunt for the prince and saw him aided by Flora Macdonald. She famously took him to Portree on Skye while he was disguised in women's clothing and pretending to be an Irish maiden by the name of Betty Burke. MacDonald was later arrested and sent to the Tower of London. Eventually, at Loch nan Uamh near Arisaig, two French vessels L'Heureux and Le Prince Conti and their crews reached Prince Charlie and he was taken to France. The Queen will be given a tour of Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, which opened in December 2007. Its owners the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) spent £9.5m constructing and fitting out the building and restoring the battlefield. Dr Pollard, of the University of Glasgow's Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, said: "The Queen's visit is an important landmark for the history of Culloden battlefield. The visit should be regarded as an honour to all of those who died in the battle and its aftermath "Bonnie Prince Charlie, grandson of James VII and II who was deposed in 1688, and the Duke of Cumberland, second son of George II, were both present during the battle, leading the opposing armies. "The visit should be regarded as an honour to all of those who died in the battle and its aftermath and represents a welcome contribution to long healing process which has followed the events of 16 April 1746." He added: "The visit is also a recognition of the first class status of the National Trust Visitor Centre and battlefield site which is an international flagship for the public presentation of historic battlefields." =================== ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ARGYLL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.13.0/2210 - Release Date: 30/06/2009 6:10 AM