But still, he was a Stuart,and that blood certainly mattered to the Prince himselfwho, at 24, sailed from France to Scotland to win back the throne for his father.Prince Charles Edward Stuart stood here at Glenfinnan,watched his family standard being raised,and told the assembled clansmen he'd come to make Scotland happy.That would've been news to some of the crofterswho'd been threatened with having their cottages burnedunless they joined the Jacobites army.But the sight of Bonnie Prince Charlie and compared to George IIand to his own embittered, ageing father,he certainly was bonny standing here in the glenat the head of Loch Shiel in his tartan plaid did seem to promise, if only for a moment,a new Scottish future.Or, at the very least,the end of the miserable captivity of the Union.But happiness?Well, that was going to prove a lot harder to come by.The structure of clan society meant that support for the prince gathered quickly.
