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Headline: UNCAPTIONED: Bonnie Prince Charlie's Head Recreated In 'Most Realistic' Depiction Yet
Caption: Jacobite leader Bonnie Prince Charlie’s youthful face has been recreated using death masks. The new reconstruction, created by a team the University of Dundee’s Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, shows him as he would have looked during the Jacobite rising of 1745 when he unsuccessfully tried to help his father, James Francis Edward Stuart, the son of the deposed James II of England, reclaim the throne. For the project, death masks of the prince were photographed and mapped by researchers. They then built 3D models with state-of-the-art software, allowing the prince to be de-aged from the 67 years old he was at the time of his death. The project was led by Barbora Veselá, a master’s student - who says that he wants people to see the Prince as he was at the time of his famous exploits. Despite some initial successes on the battlefield, the then 24-year-old’s army was defeated by government forces at the Battle of Culloden, near Inverness, in April 1746 and he spent the next five months as a hunted man before eventually fleeing to France. He spent the rest of his life on the continent and died in Rome, at the age of 67. Since his death, Bonnie Prince Charlie has continued to inspire writers and historians as well as television shows and films. Following his death, a cast of the Prince’s face was taken, as was common for notable figures at the time. Barbora took photographs from all around the masks and then utilised photogrammetry software to establish a 3D model. The University of Dundee team then de-aged the model to show what the Young Pretender looked like at the height of his fame when he looked to have a serious chance of deposing George II of England and restoring the Stuart monarchy.
Keywords: Bonnie Prince Charlie,Scotland,Jacobites,History,Reconstruction,Offbeat,University of Dundee,Centre for Anatomy,James II of England,Throne,Human,Identification,Jacobite,Masks,Death Mask,Viral,James Francis Edward Stuart
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