Lady Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale, is the true heroine and saviour of Prince Charles Edward Stuart. She was a devoted Jacobite exiled to Rome. How did Lady Winifred come to Bonnie Prince Charlie’s aid? In 1746, Prince Charles Edward Stuart needed to escape from the pursuing English army and the Butcher, the Duke of Cumberland. The Bonnie Prince was in dire straits on the Isle of South Uist. What vital part did Lady Winifred play in his escape? “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.”