Opening to Clementina and the Prince

It’s al very well to have a Bonnie Prince Charlie story about a Glasgow wife and a bairn buried in Dunkeld but where to start. I like to start in the action, not dilly dally with what a person’s granny had for breakfast but I don’t like to mislead a reader either. The Walkinshaw story starts with the father of the bride joining the Old Pretender’s army and thereby creating a bond between James and the father but that would be a kind of Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe story set in the 1715 rebellion with it’s back story to the union of 1707 and maybe even the Darien project. Not an honest introduction to a family saga where the main characters are Miss Walkinshaw, her daughter and the domestic squabbles between the bonnie prince and his common law wife.(It’s actually reported they were actually married but Charlie thought it a joke.)
So, where to start? Maybe Clementina Walkinshaw leaves her father in a stormy scene that brings out the religious differences. Walkinshaw was a Protestant, not Presbyterian but Episcopalian and Charlie was Catholic. Remember this is Glasgow and deeply split. Even after WW2, the Catholic and Government (Presbyterian) schools closed at different times to avoid fights. She can bring up that he was in the ’15 but no detail.
Having started there, the relationship between Walkinshaw and the royal James needs to come later, Maybe when Carolina meets Bonny Prince Charlie’s father, he tells her about it. That would make it tragic; a nice touch.
All right, how does Clementina, a merchant’s daughter, meet the prince? All we need is generality around which some detail can be fixed. Let’s see it through Clementina’s eyes.