Old Travel Blog Photograph Tea Room Brig o' Turk Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a vintage car outside the Tea Room in Brig o' Turk, Trossachs, Scotland. A tearoom or tea shop is a small restaurant where beverages and light meals are served, In the mid nineteenth century this Scottish village was the location of a famous Victorian love triangle involving John Ruskin, his wife Effie Gray, and protégé John Everett Millais. Euphemia Chalmers " Effie " Millais, Lady Millais née Gray, born 7 May 1828, died December 1897, was the wife of the critic John Ruskin, but she left her husband without the marriage being consummated. She later married his protégé, the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. This famous Victorian " love triangle " has been dramatised in plays, films and an opera.



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