Old Travel Blog Photograph Duchess Of Hamilton Drawing Room Holyrood Palace Edinburgh Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the Duchess Of Hamilton drawing room in Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland. Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, born 6 January 1631, died 17 October 1716, was a Scottish peeress. She was born at the Palace of Whitehall in London, England, where her mother was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Henrietta Maria of France, wife of King Charles I of Scotland and of England. Through paternal descent, Anne had a claim to the throne of Scotland, although this was dependent upon the failure of the House of Stewart. She was descended from James II through the marriage of the 1st Lord Hamilton to James's daughter Mary. Her great great grandfather, the 2nd Earl of Arran, had been heir presumptive from the death of Regent Albany until the birth of James VI, and had served as Regent of Scotland during the childhood and absence in France of Mary, Queen of Scots. She was married in 1656, at the kirk of Corstorphine near Edinburgh, to William Douglas, 1st Earl of Selkirk, a younger son of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas. Selkirk was created Duke of Hamilton for his lifetime, included the subsidiary titles pertaining to the Dukedom de jure uxoris, and in 1660 he assumed the surname Douglas-Hamilton. Between 1657 and 1673, the couple produced 13 children. She died on 17 October 1716.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Dining Inveraray Castle Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of the dining room in the castle by Inveraray, Scotland. The elaborate painting was completed in 1784 by two French artists Girard and Guinand, whose work only survives at Inveraray. Girard was also one of the principal decorative artists employed by the young Prince of Wales when decorating his grand residence Carlton House. The delicate tapestry dining chairs with gilding by Dupasquier and original Beauvais tapestry upholstery were commissioned by the 5th Duke on one of his visits to France in the 1780s. The dining table, by Gillow of Lancaster dates from about 1800.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Drawing Room Culzean Castle Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a Drawing Room in Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland. Culzean Castle was constructed as an L-plan castle by order of the 10th Earl of Cassilis. He instructed the architect Robert Adam to rebuild a previous, but more basic, structure into a fine country house to be the seat of his earldom. The castle was built in stages between 1777 and 1792. In 1945, the Kennedy family gave the castle and its grounds to the National Trust for Scotland (thus avoiding inheritance tax). In doing so, they stipulated that the apartment at the top of the castle be given to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower in recognition of his role as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during the Second World War. The General first visited Culzean Castle in 1946 and stayed there four times, including once while President of the United States. 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.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Interior Willow Tearooms Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the interior of Willow Tearooms at 217 Sauchiehall Street, in Glasgow, Scotland. Designed by internationally renowned architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which opened for business in October 1903. They quickly gained enormous popularity, and are the most famous of the many Glasgow tearooms that opened in the late 19th and early 20th century. Early in his career, in 1896, Mackintosh met Catherine Cranston, widely known as Kate Cranston or simply Miss Cranston, an entrepreneurial local business woman who was the daughter of a Glasgow tea merchant and a strong believer in temperance. The location selected by Miss Cranston for the Willow Tearooms was a four storey former warehouse building on a narrow infill urban site on the south side of Sauchiehall Street. The name Sauchiehall is derived from " saugh ", the Scots word for a willow tree, and " haugh ", meadow. This provided the starting point for Mackintosh and MacDonald's ideas for the design theme.



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Tour Scotland Travel Video 2018 New Year's Day Sunset Scone Palace Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Monday, 1 January, 2018 New Year's Day sunset on ancestry visit to Scone Palace, by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. It is the family home of the Earls of Mansfield and the stone of destiny here was the crowning place of Scottish kings where Macbeth, Robert the Bruce and King Charles II were once crowned. Bonnie Prince Charlie visited in 1745.

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