Boat Talks – Scotland’s Most Remarkable Woman with Peter Mackay

Married to the Duke of Gordon at 17, Jane became a leading hostess in Edinburgh, friend and principal Patron to Robbie Burns. In London society she became a close friend and “fixer” to William Pitt and Dundas as well as a mediator between King George 111 and the Prince of Wales. Back in Badenoch she was a zealous agricultural improver and founded Kingussie. Tonight’s Talk sets out to convince the audience that Jane Maxwell was and is, indeed, Scotland’s most remarkable woman.