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The story of Glamis Castle
Shakespeare made this the home of Macbeth, yet the real King Macbeth had no connection to it. The true stories are strong enough. In 1034 King Malcolm II was murdered at Glamis, where there was a royal hunting lodge.
By 1372 a castle stood here, granted by Robert II to Sir John Lyon, husband of the king's daughter, and the Lyon family – later Bowes-Lyon – have held it ever since. Most of the building you see dates from the 17th century. Glamis was the childhood home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and her second daughter, Princess Margaret, was born here on 21 August 1930. Walk the mile-long avenue lined with daffodils, then find the arboretum above the Glamis Burn, with trees from all over the world, some of them several hundred years old.
It is still the home of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
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