What is interesting in the English media channels is the framing taking place around Charles Edward Stuart. When the Jacobites invaded England, images were circulated throughout the country of the king and they can only be described as feminine. This spoilt, rich and Catholic Italian wearing a kilt leading the savages from the north. Post risings also many people believed the king to be homosexual, as he fled for his life dressed as a woman to escape the redcoats. In reality, Charles was not effeminate but trained as a young child in military strategy. His father would personally take him to battles and they would observe on a faraway hill. There was a lot of planning around the risings from the exiled Stuarts. There was a shared trust that the Highlanders would not abandon their claim. Charles after returning to Rome a failed man took up drinking and would eventually fall into domestic abuse with his spouse, beating her, ultra-masculine behaviour far from the image portrayed to the English. He would even travel to London incognito later in life to observe what could have been.
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