Rome and the Vatican lend treasures for Bonnie Prince Charlie …

Rare treasures from Rome and the Vatican are going on display in the UK for the first time as part of a major new exhibition about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites.

The artefacts will be on show at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh as it draws together more than 300 items from across Britain and Europe.

Among the items on display are three marble grave markers — formerly in St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City — for Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie), his younger brother Henry Benedict and their father James VIII of Scotland and III of England. These are leaving Rome for the first time as loans from the Pontifical Scots College. Also on loan, from the Sacristy Museum, is a gold…