Personality, Politics, and The Prince

A Biography of Lady Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale 1670-1749

 

Book review in the  Scottish

Community Magazine of the year --

Dumfries &   Galloway Life magazine 

on this Jacobite heroine  
with an interview by former BBC

reporter and BBC's   Man of

Scotland -- Willie Johnston!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How did Winifred save the life of a Prince and influence the course of history?
The Biography is completed thanks to all in Scotland and a walk in Winifred's footsteps at her home location of Terregles. This visit is especially dear t fo my heart and the stay at the current family home of Traquair,  Lady Catherine Stuart Maxwell's ancestral home was fantastic.
 
Numerous archival visits to the National Library of Scotland were conducted on the research of Jacobite history. THANK YOU to all for your tremendous support! After this final research collecting spree, the biography is now published. You can now enjoy the fascinating connection between Winifred and Prince Charles Edward Stuart !​​
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Lady Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale was a true Jacobite heroine. She did save Bonnie Prince Charles from the Butcher, the Duke of Cumberland.
 
"It was on a Thursday, 22nd of February, 1716, that our general petition to the House of Lords was given, to beg them to interseed to the King (as we were forced to call him,) to pardon the prisoners, having been disappointed the day before of its being deliver’d, because the Duke of---, I forgot which of the bastard Dukes, had promis’d Lady Darwentwater to give it, and when it came too, he fail’d, and as she was an English Countess, it was her business. However, we had still the next day before the execution, in which he promised not to faile.” (The Escape written by Lady Winifred, Countess of Nithsdale)
 
"The story of the Jacobites is a fascinating embrace of what it means to be human. It stirs emotions, empathy and “to the eye of sympathy. One can never do enough for the Jacobites of the eighteenth century. There is a strong underlying sympathy with, interest in, and constant appetite for the Jacobites to be found not, it may surely be added, in the Scottish mind only, but in the minds of all who have any feeling for romance, for ‘old, unhappy, far-off things, and battles long ago.’ ”  Hadden

Photos: Winifred's Terregles, Traquair, the convent in Bruges & Culloden