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The Con Artists who Duped Victorian Society: The Story of the Sobieski Brothers

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A tartan kilt on display in the museum’s Victorian gallery and a rare book on tartans in the museum’s library are directly linked to two infamous figures from the Victorian era; brothers who claimed to be Bonnie Prince Charlie’s grandsons. Who were the Sobieski brothers? John Carter Allen (1795–1872) and Charles Manning Allen (1802–1880) started […]

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BISHOP GIORGIO LASCARIS AND THE STUART – RADZIWILL CIRCLE BY PETER PININSKI

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   One cannot properly understand the exiled Stuarts in Rome, and the importance of their relationship with Poland, without understanding the role played by one extraordinary individual. That man was the Stuarts’ most trusted confidant. He was also an intimate friend of the Stuarts’ closest Polish cousins, Prince Michał Radziwiłł and his eldest son Prince

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Grandpa Beaton’s World War II Story

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In 2025 the museum were gifted Alexander Finlayson Beaton’s wartime medals by his daughter Maggie Hardy (nee Beaton) and granddaughter Tracy Anderson.  This fascinating account of Grandpa Beaton’s wartime experiences was written by his granddaughter and has also been gifted to the museum.  It is published here by kind permission of Tracy Anderson. Alexander Finlayson

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Military Stories: Colonel John Cameron of Fassefern (1771–1815)

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The museum has six objects in its collection that once belonged to Colonel John Cameron of Fassifern (or Fassiefern), these include a childhood toy, a love token, and objects associated with his military service. Cameron was a cousin of the Camerons of Lochiel and educated partly at the grammar school in Fort William, but also

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