Cases that gripped the public while making legal history over past 200 years
– war hero with a colourful heritage and the prospect of a large inheritance to come. She, on the other hand, was the 16-year-old daughter of a modest Edinburgh fishing tackle maker, whose reputation her family were anxious to protect. The questions that swirled around their relationship would be picked over in a court case that could easily have slipped straight from the love-struck world of the Bridgertons. The question of whether Major William Steuart, VC, went down on bended kne...
Source: heraldscotland.com