Old travel Blog photograph of the West Drawing Room in Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland. A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained. The name is derived from the 16th century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. In a large 16th to early 18th century English house, a withdrawing room was a room to which the owner of the house, his wife, or a distinguished guest who was occupying one of the main apartments in the house could " withdraw " for more privacy. When Mary Queen of Scots arrived at the palace in 1561 she chose to stay in the apartments where her mother, Marie de Guise, had lived. Between 1561 and 1567 Mary entertained dignitaries, held masques, loved and suffered in the palace. She met John Knox in a series of confrontational audiences. She married first Lord Darnley then Bothwell at Holyroodhouse. Her private secretary, David Rizzio, was brutally murdered there and Mary’s life was threatened.
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