I agree!! I think it is Mary McNabb giving him ‘comfort’ in the cave. During the time after Culloden, they were almost starving, so she was very thin. That would also explain his face…

Would be my guess too,

You’re preaching to the choir here, I was almost 18 when I met my husband who was 31 (he looked much younger, so I didn’t know), and that was only 15 years ago.
Problem is that regardless of the historical setting, people nowadays are always going to frown on a young teen marrying a much older man, and I guess it’s easier to let the critics have their way than to stay true to the source material.

If there’s a memory lapse, it’s probably mine, but I do know that Jamie gives the age difference as a reason why Fergus and Marsali can’t get married when they’re on the ship leaving France.

I was going to say I thought it was one of Marsali’s daughters, but I think @maggiesmith is right. William. I’ve seen boys that young from that time period in that sort of getup before. (Not in person obviously, lol, but yeah.)

I don’t remember him being worried because he was too old, but could just be a lapse. Either way that age difference wouldn’t have been uncommon in much of the world even 100 years ago. My grandmother was 14 and grandfather in his 20s or even 30 when they got married…just saying…

That’s why we put a warning in the piece that there were some book spoilers ahead :). We don’t tend to go down that road (I’m personally not a book reader either), but with this particular piece that sort of info was needed to decipher it.

I wondered that too but the neck is just way too small.

On second thought, I suspect it’s young William.

Except Fergus has curly black hair and the girl in the photo obviously has blonde or reddish hair.