1745 – The Last Hopeful Epistle of Bonnie Prince Charlie

The story of the last Jacobite Rising of 1745, told by those who followed the Stuart Standard on the long march from the Highlands to Derby, and retreat to a final tragic denouement at Culloden. On November 6 1746, the leader of the Rising gave his own account of the campaign in a previously undiscovered letter to King Louis of France – the last hopeful epistle of Bonnie Prince Charlie. But what did it all portend, and what legacy remains of the cause to which so many sacrificed their lives in vain?