The Saber and Scroll Journal Volume 8, Number 3, Spring 2020 | Page 100

Tea Table Sisterhood and Rebel Dames: The C
Margaret, Lady Nairne from "A Military
woman seated, with long light coloured
land, Blaikie.SNPG.16.11.
death. She instilled in her children
and grandchild the Jacobite spirit, and
duty to the Stuart cause. And indeed,
they became involved and sided with
the Jacobites during the 1745 uprising
when Bonnie Prince Charles landed
in Scotland. 50 Lady Nairne entertained
Bonnie Prince Charles before the 1745
rebellion, suggesting her life-long commitment
and her family’s loyalty to the
House of Stuart. 51 At the age of seventy-three,
two years before her death, she
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