Rare treasures from the Vatican have gone on loan to the National Museum of Scotland, as part of a new exhibition about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites.
The exhibition, which opens in Edinburgh today, includes three marble grave markers formerly in St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City – those of Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie), his younger brother Henry Benedict, and their father James VIII of Scotland and II of England.
The grave markers have gone on loan from the Pontifical Scots College for the first time. Also on loan, from the Sacristy Museum, is a gold communion set, which has never gone on display in the UK before. Known as the York Chalice and Paten, it belonged to Henry (Cardinal York), who gave it to the church.
