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week 5: chapter 37-45
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Nov 23, 2016 01:39PM
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Our hero has just committed himself to the cause of Charles Edward Stuart.
Waverley has encountered Flora again, and she continues to treat him like a brother. The sweet Rose is also there, in Edinburgh, along with her father, among the followers of Charles Edward Stuart.
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When the 'army' marches from Edinburgh my heart sank. The description of the rag tag bunch that made up 1/2 their number and the division that seemed to be between the different clans spoke of defeat and failure. Of course, I know what's coming...
The Prince is a gentleman and a dreamer. It was too late for him in time- history marched on and there was no place for him on the throne.
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The Prince, although raised in foreign courts, had been raised to believe in his heritage and his right. There was indeed a true right to the throne, more so than the House of Hanover. However, since the back and forth of religious persecution with King Henry VIII, divorce from the Catholic Church, Queen Mary, back to protestant persecution, then Queen Elizabeth, who made choice of religion something that was not to be persecuted over but still the country feared it would happen again...thus any future monarch had to be C of E and maintain the peace in the country. When James II rightly declared himself Catholic, he should have abdicated but he did not. This is when the fight began.
I can admire the Stuart family for being true to their religious beliefs but not for being willing to plunge the British people into another civil war. Maintaining peace and stability of one's nation would be paramount one would think, for it's monarch.
However, I can understand those who followed Prince Charlie for he seems to have been a true believing soul and quite a noble Prince to follow. Unfortunately his family and their beliefs ended up with no throne and no purpose in life; very sad.
