Tour Scotland photograph of the Palace in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Dunfermline Palace is a former Scottish royal palace. Dunfermline was a favourite residence of many Scottish monarchs. Documented history of royal residence there begins in the 11th century with King Malcolm III who made it his capital. His seat was the nearby Malcolm's Tower, a few hundred yards to the west of the later palace. In the medieval period David II and James I of Scotland were both born at Dunfermline. In 1589 the palace was given as a wedding present by the King James VI, to Anne of Denmark after their marriage. She gave birth to three of their children there; Elizabeth in 1596, Charles in 1600 and Robert on 1602. After the Union of Crowns in 1603, the removal of the Scottish court to London, England, meant that the building came to be rarely visited by a monarch. When Charles I returned in 1633 for his Scottish coronation he only made a brief visit to his place of birth. The last monarch to occupy the palace was Charles II who stayed at Dunfermline in 1650 just before the Battle of Pitreavie. Soon afterwards, during the Cromwellian occupation of Scotland, the building was abandoned and by 1708 it had been unroofed. All that remains of the palace today is the kitchen, its cellars, and the impressive south wall with a commanding prospect over the Firth of Forth to the south.
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