After 3 days of ‘battening down the hatches’ so to speak as the rains and severe storms past, we deemed it time to continue our late summer tour. So it was a cold but bright morning when we said goodbye to The Loch of Forfar and headed north……
But before we left Angus and as we had to pas that very Scottish of Castles we decided to pay a quick visit. It is of course GLAMIS CASTLE, the favourite castle of the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. It is a castle of turrets, fortified windows and a oh so magnificent ‘front door’……definitely one to keep visitors at bay!
Glamis is of course the castle upon which Macbeth (The Scottish Play) was based. Shakespeare used it as the setting. However it has to be a ‘rumour’ as the murder room hadn’t been built at that time….still a good rumour that has severed the castle and its tourist trade well. And rightly so as the castle and the gardens are somewhere you can easily spend a day exploring; but after the bright start the grey clouds had returned so a quick visit it was. But even so that didn’t deter one majestic member of the Estate from wishing us well between mouthfuls of grass.
It is also very fitting that a memorial to the Late Princess Margaret has been created in the grounds. Princess Margaret was born at Glamis in 1930 and died in 2002.
Written September the 13th for posting when signal available.
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