Flora MacDonald (1722-1790) due to the post-Culloden romanticising of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's wanderings in the Western Isles, achieved and still has heroine status. On June 20th 1746 at Milton on South Uist Flora agreed, albeit slightly reluctantly, to assist the Prince in his escape disguised as her maid 'Betty Burke' from Benbecula 'over the sea to Skye', landing on June 29th near Kilbride, and thence to Portree. She was arrested shortly after the Prince left for Raasay and then taken to the Tower of London but released in 1747. By 1750 she had married the son of MacDonald of Kingsburgh although, having entertained Dr. Johnson in 1773, she and her husband emigrated to North Carolina in 1774, returning just after the American War of Independence.