Highland Cows
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Glamis Castle
A couple weekends ago we visited Glamis Castle, which is about a 1 hour drive from Aberdeen. I loved this one, so Magestic!! We had a great 50 minute tour in which we were told of a ghost still living in the castle. It has been the family home of the Earls of Strathmore since 1372. It has close connections with the present Royal Family, being the childhood home of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. It is the setting for Shakespeare's Macbeth and is referred to here: "Glamis thou art" "and yet woulds't wrongly win: thou'dst have great Glamis". It is popularly believed that Duncan was murdered here by Macbeth.
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