Tour Scotland 4K short travel video cip, with Scottish music, of the Bonnie Prince Charlie painting in Holyrood Palace on ancestry, genealogy family history visit and trip to Edinburgh, Britain, United Kingdom. Around round 20,000 people lined the streets of the capital for a glimpse of the Prince, cheering as he rode past the foot of Salisbury Crags and through the south entrance of Holyrood Palace. The prince was now taking his place in the Royal Palace, and indeed the palace of his ancestors. It was here, on September 17 1745, that Bonnie Prince Charlie set up court amid his ill fated campaign to restore his family line to the British throne. On that day, his father was proclaimed king James VIII at Edinburgh’s Mercat Cross with the palace becoming the temporary nerve centre of the Jacobite rebellion. Largely built for Charles II, the Prince’s great uncle, the palace in 1745 was relatively run down given it had yet to be used as a royal residence. Just four days after he arrived at Holyrood Palace, the Jacobites claimed victory over the Hanoverians at the Battle of Prestonpans. Later, the same bed in Holyrood Palace was slept in by the Duke of Cumberland as he headed south following victory at the Battle of Culloden. Bonnie Prince Charlie and his supporters left the Holyrood Palace intent on marching to London. After being forced back at Derby, they entered Scotland once again and secured one more victory on Scottish soil at the Battle of Falkirk in January 1746. Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Maria Stuart was born in Rome in 1720, about 32 years after his grandfather - James VII and II, the last Roman Catholic monarch of Scotland, England and Ireland - had been deposed from the throne. Many years later Charles would also die in Rome. During his life he spent just 14 months on British soil, in 1745 to 1746, and a brief clandestine return visit in 1750. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome
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