Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, will be familiar to Outlander fans as the grandfather of the hero Jamie Fraser. However, Simon Fraser isn’t a fictionl character he was a leading nobleman during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. His cunning and duplicity earned him the nickname ‘The Old Fox’. Eventually he could no longer outfox his opponents and faced a charge of high treason. Join me to discover what happened to this wily old aristocrat in this edition of Fireside Tales.

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