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Old Photograph Kitchen Palace Dunfermline Fife Scotland
Old photograph of the kitchen in the Palace in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. 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. 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, born 1596, Charles, born 1600 and Robert, born 1602. After the Union of Crowns in 1603, the removal of the Scottish court to London meant that the building came to be rarely visited by a monarch. 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.
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