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Charles Edward Stuart

1720–1788

Charles Edward Stuart, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, was the grandson of the deposed James II and the Stuart claimant who led the Jacobite rising of 1745. Landing in Scotland with limited support, he captured Edinburgh and advanced into England before retreating.

The Jacobite army was decisively defeated at Culloden in April 1746, and Charles escaped after months in hiding. His later life in exile was marked by disappointment, heavy drinking and failed political schemes. Charles Edward Stuart was born in Palazzo Muti.

In G. A. Henty’s Bonnie Prince Charlie, Historical figures including Charles Edward Stuart and Prince William, Duke of Cumberland connect the fictional action directly to the documented events. In Nigel Tranter’s Gold for Prince Charlie, Culloden has destroyed the Jacobite army, and Prince Charles Edward Stuart is a fugitive with a government reward on his head. Charles Edward Stuart is treated fictionally in Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley, Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles’ The Maiden, Malcolm Archibald’s Blood Oath, and S. G. MacLean’s The Bookseller of Inverness.

Periods

Periods linked to Charles Edward Stuart

Jacobite Rising of 17451745–1746 CE

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Charles Edward Stuart (6 series)

Outlander in Order

by Diana Gabaldon 9 books 4.6(525,677)

The Outlander series follows twentieth-century physician Claire Randall after she travels through time to eighteenth-century Scotland and forms a life with Highlander Jamie Fraser. The novels move through the Jacobite rising, its aftermath, the Caribbean, colonial North America and the American Revolution, combining family saga, historical adventure, romance…

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Morland Dynasty in Order

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 36 books 4.4(27,265)

The Morland Dynasty is a thirty-six-book family saga tracing the fictional Morlands of Yorkshire from 1434 to the approach of the Second World War. Beginning with the marriage of Robert Morland and Eleanor, a ward of the Beaufort family, the sequence follows successive generations as Morland Place grows…

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Warrior’s Path in Order

by Malcolm Archibald 3 books 4.4(2,271)

Warrior’s Path follows Highland soldier Hugh MacKim from the aftermath of Culloden into the global conflict of the Seven Years’ War. His pursuit of vengeance carries him through service with Fraser’s Highlanders in North America, winter warfare around Quebec and campaigns against French possessions in the Caribbean. The…

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Sutton Place Trilogy in Order

by Deryn Lake 3 books 4.2(2,113)

The Sutton Place Trilogy follows the fortunes of the families attached to the historic Surrey manor of Sutton Place, imagining a curse that begins in Anglo-Saxon England when Queen Edith condemns the land hunted by Edward the Confessor. Five centuries later the estate passes to the Weston family…

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Macgregor Trilogy in Order

by Nigel Tranter 3 books 4.3(221)

Set between the Union of 1707 and the collapse of the Jacobite cause after Culloden, the Macgregor Trilogy follows an outlawed Highland clan whose name, lands and political loyalties have all been placed under threat. Rob Roy MacGregor, his nephew Gregor and their descendants remain attached to the…

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Waverley Novels in Order

by Sir Walter Scott 8 books 3.8(119,678)

The Waverley Novels are Walter Scott’s long sequence of historical romances, named after the anonymously published Waverley of 1814. The series moves across Scottish, English and continental European history, placing fictional protagonists between older systems of loyalty and the political, commercial and legal institutions replacing them. Scott’s characters…

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Standalone books

Standalone books featuring Charles Edward Stuart (2 books)