Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of the morning room on visit to Fyvie Castle near Turriff in Aberdeenshire. In 1733 the Crown sold Fyvie to William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen who required another seat for his third wife Anne and her children because Haddo House was due to be inherited by his son by his second wife. From 1770 to 1840 Anne’s son William Gordon carried out sweeping changes. Fyvie remained in various lines of the Gordon family until Sir Maurice Duff Gordon, a notorious spendthrift, had to sell the castle and it’s contents in 1889. The term “ morning room ” came about during the early 1800s, to designate a space used mainly in the morning. These rooms
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