It reads: Flora MacDonald Preserver of Prince Charles Edward Stuart Her name will be mentioned in history and if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour. The grave stone of Flora MacDonald in Kilmuir Cemetery, Isle of Skeye. The toe of her stone reads South Uist, the village she was born in on the Hebrides. The village was lost during the Highland Clearings, only a few stones in fields remain. Buried here also are several other close family members, but clearly the mausoleum is meant for Flora. Those words by the way were written not by a Scot but rather by an Englisman, Samual Johnstone, who met Flora when she was being held in house arrest in London. She was held in high esteem from the moment of her capture. When questioned by the Duke of Cumberland, who defeated Charles Stuart at Couloden as to why she had taken such a great risk to rescue Prince Charlie she replied that she did it out of mercy for one being in such a terrible predicament and that if the situation had been reversed and the Duke himself had come to her in such a state she would have so aided him. Nobody was going to put such a pias and honorable woman on trial for treason. It would have been political suicide no matter what the verdict. She was released a year later in the general pardoning of the Jacobites in 1746. This was not the original stone. The original marble stone was broken, chipped away and carried off by tourists for well over a hundred years until virtually nothing was left. As I said previously, this is the only cemetery on Skye that looks out over the Hebrides, her birth place.