Point of interest
Grave of Flora MacDonald
9 locals recommend
Location
3 Peingown
Kilmuir, Scotland
Tips from locals
Gary
August 3, 2022
In Kilmuir Cemetery is a tall memorial to Flora MacDonald, ‘Preserver of Prince Charles Edward Stuart’ (aka Bonnie Prince Charlie). Despite the romanticism of the Skye Boat song, she was a real & remarkable person. This is a place to come & spend a moment reflecting on her amazing courage. Also in the burial ground is a memorial stone for the famous fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen, whose ashes were scattered here on Skye, the island of his father’s birth.
In Kilmuir Cemetery is a tall memorial to Flora MacDonald, ‘Preserver of Prince Charles Edward Stuart’ (aka Bonnie Prince Charlie). Despite the romanticism of the Skye Boat song, she was a real & remarkable person. This is a place to come & spend a moment reflecting on her amazing courage. Also in…
Karen
August 1, 2021
Grave of the most famous woman of the Highlands. There are other memorials worth seeing in the cemetery.