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Glamis Castle is situated beside the village of Glamis / ˈ ɡ l ɑː m z / in Angus, Scotland.It is the home of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and is open to the public. Glamis Castle has been the home of the Lyon family since the 14th century, though the present building dates largely from the 17th century. Glamis was the childhood home of Queen Elizabeth The Queen. Penthouse Cabins. From $119 (weeknights) – $256 holidays. Weekend flat rate $379. Sites – 178, 184, 186, 188, 190 Please bring your own linens for a queen, a double (same room), plus towels. Enquire › book tickets › find us. Willy Wonka Slots is your lucky ticket to FREE authentic, casino-style slot machine games and the iconic cast of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory! Spin to win amazing prizes in this scrumptious free slot game! Create your very own garden of crazy Wonka creations in Sweet Candy Crops, our newest mini game. Spin in machines to find the best seeds, plant, grow, and watch the Credits roll in! Casinos in Glamis on YP.com. See reviews, photos, directions, phone numbers and more for the best Casinos in Glamis, CA.

Glamis Castle is situated beside the village of Glamis/ˈɡlɑːmz/ in Angus, Scotland. It is the home of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and is open to the public.

Glamis Castle has been the home of the Lyon family since the 14th century, though the present building dates largely from the 17th century. Glamis was the childhood home of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, wife of King George VI. Their second daughter, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, was born there.

The castle is protected as a category A listed building,^[1] and the grounds are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.^[2]

Setting[edit]

Glamis is set in the broad and fertile lowland valley of Strathmore, near Forfar, county town of Angus, which lies between the Sidlaw Hills to the south and the Grampian Mountains to the north, approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) inland from the North Sea. The estate surrounding the castle covers more than 57 square kilometres (14,000 acres) and, in addition to parks and gardens, produces several cash crops including lumber and beef. There are two streams running through the estate, one of them the Glamis Burn. An arboretum overlooking Glamis Burn features trees from all over the world, many of them rare and several hundred years old.

History[edit]

The vicinity of Glamis Castle has prehistoric traces; for example, a noted intricately carved Pictish stone known as the Eassie Stone was found in a creek-bed at the nearby village of Eassie.^[3]

In 1034 King Malcolm II was murdered at Glamis,^[4] where there was a Royal Hunting Lodge.^[2] In William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (1603–06), the eponymous character resides at Glamis Castle, although the historical King Macbeth (d. 1057) had no connection to the castle.

By 1372 a castle had been built at Glamis, since in that year it was granted by King Robert II to Sir John Lyon, Thane of Glamis, husband of the king's daughter. Glamis has remained in the Lyon (later Bowes-Lyon) family since this time. The castle was rebuilt as an L-plantower house in the early 15th century.^[5]

The title Lord Glamis was created in 1445 for Sir Patrick Lyon (1402–1459), grandson of Sir John. John Lyon, 6th Lord Glamis, married Janet Douglas, daughter of the Master of Angus, at a time when King James V was feuding with the Douglases. In December 1528 Janet was accused of treason for bringing supporters of the Earl of Angus to Edinburgh. She was then charged with poisoning her husband, Lord Glamis, who had died on 17 September 1528. Eventually, she was accused of witchcraft, and was burned at the stake at Edinburgh on 17 July 1537. James V subsequently seized Glamis, living there for some time.^[2]

In 1543 Glamis was returned to John Lyon, 7th Lord Glamis. In 1606, Patrick Lyon, 9th Lord Glamis, was created Earl of Kinghorne. He began major works on the castle, commemorated by the inscription 'Built by Patrick, Lord Glamis, and D[ame] Anna Murray' on the central tower.^[1] The English architect Inigo Jones has traditionally been linked to the redesign of the castle, though Historic Scotland consider the King's Master Mason William Schaw a more likely candidate, due to the traditional Scottish style of the architecture.^[1]

During the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, soldiers were garrisoned at Glamis. In 1670Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, returned to the castle and found it uninhabitable. Restorations took place until 1689, including the creation of a major Baroque garden.^[1][2]John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, succeeded in 1753, and in 1767 he married Mary Eleanor Bowes, heiress to a coal-mining fortune. He set about improving the grounds of the castle in the picturesque style in the 1770s.^[1] The south-west wing was rebuilt after a fire in the early 19th century. In the 1920s a huge fireplace from Gibside, the Bowes-Lyon estate near Gateshead, was removed and placed in Glamis' Billiard Room. The fireplace displays the coat of arms of the Blakiston family; Gibside heiress Elizabeth Blakiston had married Sir William Bowes.^[5][6] Several interiors, including the Dining Room, also date from the 18th and 19th centuries.^[1]

In 1900, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was born, the youngest daughter of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and his wife, Cecilia (née Cavendish-Bentinck). She spent much of her childhood at Glamis, which was used during the First World War as a military hospital.^[1] She was particularly instrumental in organising the rescue of the castle's contents during a serious fire on 16 September 1916.^[7] On 26 April 1923 she marriedPrince Albert, Duke of York, second son of King George V, at Westminster Abbey. Their second daughter, Princess Margaret, was born at Glamis Castle in 1930.^[1]

Since 1987 an illustration of the castle has featured on the reverse side of ten pound notes issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland.^[8] Glamis is currently the home of Simon Bowes-Lyon, 19th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who succeeded to the earldom in 2016.

Legends and tales[edit]

The Monster of Glamis[edit]

The most famous legend connected with the castle is that of the Monster of Glamis, a hideously deformed child born to the family. Some accounts came from singer and composer Virginia Gabriel who stayed at the castle in 1870.^[9] In the story, the monster was kept in the castle all his life and his suite of rooms bricked up after his death.^{[10][11][12][13]} Another monster is supposed to have dwelt in Loch Calder near the castle.^{[citation needed]}

An alternative version of the legend is that to every generation of the family a vampire child is born and is walled up in that room.^[11]

There is an old story that guests staying at Glamis once hung towels from the windows of every room in a bid to find the bricked-up suite of the monster. When they looked at it from outside, several windows were apparently towel-less.^[11]

The legend of the monster may have been inspired by the true story of the Ogilvies.^[11][14][15] Somewhere in the 16-foot-thick (4.9 m) walls is the famous room of skulls, where the Ogilvie family, who sought protection from their enemies the Lindsays, were walled up to die of starvation.

Earl Beardie[edit]

A legend tells of the 15th-century 'Earl Beardie', who has been identified with both Alexander Lyon, 2nd Lord Glamis (died 1486),^[10] and with Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford (died 1453).^[16] Several versions exist, but they all involve 'Earl Beardie' playing cards. However, it was the sabbath, and either his hosts refused to play, or a servant advised him to stop. Lord Beardie became so furious that he claimed that he would play until doomsday, or with the Devil himself, depending on the version. A stranger then appears at the castle and joins Lord Beardie in a game of cards. The stranger is identified with the Devil, who takes Earl Beardie's soul and, in some versions, condemns the Earl to play cards until doomsday.^[10][17]

Other traditions[edit]

According to the official website for Glamis Castle, in 1034, King Malcolm II was mortally wounded in a nearby battle and taken to a Royal Hunting Lodge, which sat at the site of the present castle, where he died.

The late Sir David Bowes-Lyon, while taking a late stroll on the lawn after dinner, reportedly saw a girl gripping the bars of a castle window and staring distractedly into the night. He was about to speak to her when she abruptly disappeared, as if someone had torn her away from the window.^{[citation needed]}

Description[edit]

The towers in front of the castle each measure 7 metres (23 ft) in diameter and are about 4 metres (13 ft) high, each having a modern parapet. The walls are 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) thick.^[5]

There is a small chapel within the castle with seating for 46 people. The story given to visitors by castle tour guides states that one seat in the chapel is always reserved for the 'White Lady' (supposedly a ghost which inhabits the castle), thought to be Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis. According to the guides, the chapel is still used regularly for family functions, but no one is allowed to sit in that seat.^{[citation needed]}

Archives[edit]

The clock tower houses the castle's archives which include a wide range of historical material relating to the castle and the Bowes and Lyon families. These include a papal bull and the memoirs of Mary Eleanor Bowes. The Glamis archives have a close connection with the archives at the University of Dundee, and researchers who wish to consult material held in the Glamis Castle Archive do so in the search room at the University.^[18]

See also[edit]

• Banknotes of Scotland (featured on design)

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdefghHistoric Environment Scotland. 'Glamis Castle (Category A) (LB11701)'. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
2. ^ ^abcdHistoric Environment Scotland. 'Glamis Castle (GDL00189)'. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
3. ^Hogan, C. Michael (7 October 2007). Burnham, Andy (ed.). 'Eassie Stone'. The Megalithic Portal.
4. ^Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland. Adam and Charles Black. 1861.
5. ^ ^abc'Glamis Castle, Site Number NO34NE 1.00'. CANMORE. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
6. ^Heritage, Camelot. 'Glamis Castle: The Billiard Room'. British Heritage and Castles. Camelot Heritage. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
7. ^Shawcross, William (2009), Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother: The Official Biography, Macmillan, pp. 79–80, ISBN978-1-4050-4859-0
8. ^'Current Banknotes : Royal Bank of Scotland'. The Committee of Scottish Clearing Bankers. Retrieved 17 October 2008.
9. ^Dash, Mike (10 February 2012), The Monster of Glamis, Smithsonian, retrieved 14 May 2014
10. ^ ^abcHaunted Castles And Hotels: Glamis Castle, Haunted Castles and Hotels, 9 June 2009. Accessed 9 September 2010.
11. ^ ^abcdDash, Mike. The Monster of Glamis , CFI Blogs, 9 June 2009. Accessed 8 September 2010.
12. ^The Crawford Papers: The Journals of David Lindsay, Twenty-Seventh Earl of Crawford during the years 1892–1940 (1984) Manchester University Press pp. 86–87
13. ^Wentworth-Day, James (1967). The Queen Mother's Family Story. pp. 133–136.
14. ^T.F. Thistleton Dyer (1900) Strange Pages From Family Papers, pp. 98–103
15. ^Chambers's Journal 1898, pp. 627–28
16. ^Ash, Russell (2009). Top Ten of Britain. Hamlyn Publishing. p. 184.
17. ^Shand, William (24 September 2007). 'Earl Beardie - the ghostly Earl of Crawford'. Dundee Messenger. Archived from the original on 24 September 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
18. ^'Treasures of Glamis Castle'. Archives, Records and Artefacts at the University of Dundee. Retrieved 2 February 2012.

External links[edit]

• Ghosts and Hauntings in Glamis Castle, Mysterious Britain
• The Monster of Glamis, article by Mike Dash

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