Tour Scotland Winter video of The Queen’s View overlooking Loch Tummel near Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish viewpoint was made famous by Queen Victoria in 1866. It is also claimed that the view was originally named after Queen Isabella, wife of Robert the Bruce. Isabella of Mar was the first wife of Robert Bruce VII, Earl of Carrick. Isabella died before her husband was crowned, as Robert I, King of Scotland. She and her husband were the grandparents of Robert II, King of Scotland. Isabella was the daughter of Domhnall I, Earl of Mar and Elena, daughter of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd. Isabella's father was evidently an adherent of Robert Bruce V, Lord of Annandale, a man who staked a claim to the Scottish throne. The close relationship between the Domhnall's family and the Bruces is evidenced by two marriages. One was that between Isabella and Robert Bruce VII, Earl of Carrick, a grandson of Robert Bruce V. Domhnall's son and comital successor, Gartnait, married a sister of Robert Bruce VII. The marriage of Robert Bruce VII and Isabella probably took place in the 1290s. The union produced a single child, a daughter named Marjorie, who was born in about 1296. Following Isabella's death, Robert Bruce VII married his second wife, Elizabeth de Burgh. Isabella's daughter, Marjorie, married Walter Stewart, Steward of Scotland, and their son eventually reigned as Robert II, King of Scotland.
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