Tour Scotland 4K travel video of a Summer road trip drive, with Scottish fiddle music, South on the A823 on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the outskirts of Auchterarder, Strathearn, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. In 1328, Robert the Bruce gave the town of Auchterarder to the Montifex family who later passed it on to the Drummonds as part of a dowry. In the fourteenth century, Maria Montifex from Auchterarder Castle married Sir John Drummond. Their daughter Annabella married King Robert III in 1390 and gave birth to King James I. He became ancestor of both the Stewart and Hanoverian dynasties and today’s House of Windsor. In 1376, John Lyon of Forteviot married Joanna, Daughter of King Robert II. Six centuries later in 1923 their descendant Elizabeth Bowes Lyon married the future King George VI. Their first child, born in 1926, became Queen Elizabeth II. Across the centuries, many members of the royal family have been earls and dukes of Strathearn. Queen Victoria’s father was Edward, Duke of Strathearn. Prince William was created Earl of Strathearn in 2011 to mark his wedding to Catherine Middleton. Disaster struck in 1715, when the settlement was destroyed by the defeated Jacobite soldiers retreating from the Battle of Sheriffmuir. The A823 is a lengthy route which crosses Fife and the small counties of Kinross and Clackmannan, and ends in Perthshire. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip
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