All that and they got the Stirling battle wrong as it was on a bridge

nine years… are historically accurate. What far too few seem to know even now is that this is not true at all. Here are just a few examples: the famous kilts appear roughly 300 years too soon; it was the Picts, not the Scotts, who painted themselves blue; Robert the Bruce never betrayed William Wallace; and the film’s romance between Wallace and King Edward II’s wife, Isabella, is impossible because she was nine years old when Wallace died. Unfortunately, legions of moviegoers got the only history of Scotland they’ll ever know from this f…
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Mark Holburn
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Jul 10, 2024
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All that and they got the Stirling battle wrong as it was on a bridge
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Written by Mark Holburn850 Followers
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Lover of music, sport, animals, humour, movies and decency. A Level in Film Studies.
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