After five months as a fugitive in the Highlands and Western Isles — with a £30,000 government price on his head — Prince Charles Edward Stuart was taken off from Loch nan Uamh on the French privateer L'Heureux on 19 September 1746. During his flight he crossed to Skye disguised as "Betty Burke," the Irish maidservant of Flora MacDonald — one of the most romantic episodes of the rising. Flora MacDonald was subsequently arrested. Charles never returned to Britain. The famous Skye Boat Song ("Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing") commemorates the crossing to Skye.
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