This was the location for Mary Queen of Scots’ romantic Highland home in the film
Elizabeth: The Golden Years. I seem
to recall that the film even hinted that it was the place of her
execution, which it certainly wasn’t. As far as I know, Mary spent most of her
life in and around Edinburgh, before being taken
to England
and shunted around various places of confinement in the English Midlands. She
met her end at Fotheringhay Castle, built on a low mound in the middle of a
village in Northamptonshire (which is even further away from the Highlands than
Edinburgh is.)
I wish I could think of something pithy, poignant or topical
to say, but I can’t. You’ll have to make do with a nice snapshot I took while
on holiday up there.
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