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	GLAMIS - LoveToKnow Article on GLAMIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The chief object in the village is the sculptured stone, traditionally supposed to be a memorial of Malcolm II., although Forduns statement that the king was slain in the castle is now rejected.
		When, in 1537, Janet Douglas, widow of the 6th Lord Glamis, was burned,at Edinburgh as a witch, for conspiring to procure James V,s death, Glamis was forfeited to the crown, but it was restored to her son six years later when her innocence had been established.
		At Cossans, in the parish of Glamis, there is a remarkable sculptured monolith, and other examples occur at the Hunters Hill and in the old kirkyard of Eassie.
	36.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GL/GLAMIS.htm (356 words)

	MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF HAMILTON - LoveToKnow Article on MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF HAMILTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		James, 2nd Lord Hamilton, son of the 1st lord and Princess Mary, was created earl of Arran in 1503; and his son James, who was regent of Scotland from 1542 to 1554, received in February 1549 a grant of the duchy of Chfltellerault in Poitou.
		Archbishop Hamilton was hanged at Stirling in 1571 for alleged complicity in the murder of Darnley, and is said to have admitted that he was a party to the murder of Murray.
		At the pacification of Perth in 1573 the Hamiltons abandoned Marys cause, and a reconciliation with the Douglases was sealed by Lord Johns marriage with Margaret, daughter of the 7th Lord Glamis, a cousin of the regent Morton.
	13.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HA/HAMILTON_MARQUESSES_AND_DUKES_OF.htm (1699 words)

	Glamis Castle
		Glamis was the childhood home to Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, and is the birth place of Princess Margaret (1930) who is the first royal baby born in Scotland in over 300 years.
		Another Glamis ghost is the apparition of a toungeless woman seen running across the castle grounds at midnight tearing at her mouth.
		Glamis' vampire is believed a servant woman who was caught sucking the blood of her victim.
	www.hauntedcastlesandhotels.com /Scotland/glamis.htm (1592 words)

	Uktravel.com - Castle Guide
		The 20th century brought further royal connections to Glamis with the marriage at Westminster Abbey on 26 April 1923 between Prince Albert, Duke of York, second son of King George V, and the Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, the youngest daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore.
		Although she was not born here, Glamis was the Queen Mother's childhood home, and it was there that her youngest daughter, Princess Margaret, was born in 1930, the first royal baby in direct line to the throne to be born in Scotland for 300 years, a fact which is proudly remembered at Glamis.
		Lady Janet, the widow of the 6th Lord Glamis is said to haunt the Chapel at the castle.
	www.uktravel.com /castlecontent.asp?timeID=Glamis&offset=80 (901 words)

	Glamis Castle on a small group tour of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In a room, thought to be adjacent to the Haunted Chamber, a woman, spending the night at Glamis, is said to have seen the tall figure of a man in armour passing through her room and enter the next room in which her son lay asleep.
		A former Lord Castleton's daughter woke during the night she was spending at the castle to see the figure of "a huge old man" seated in front of the fire in her bedroom.
		The legend of the Monster of Glamis relates to somewhere around the turn of the 18th/19th centuries, when a grotesque and bloated monster was born to be Heir of Glamis.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /glamis-castle.htm (1541 words)

	GCB on the Monikie, Scotland Website.
		He was at Glamis in the "Feast of St. Andrew" 1538, in January and September 1539, in the autumn and winter of 1540, in the autumn of 1541, and in the spring of 1542.
		In 1905, the young Lord Glamis came of age, and in honour of the event a series of festivities extending over the best part of a week were planned, which made the occasion a gay and joyous memory in Angus.
		A hospital for convalescent soldiers was instituted in Glamis Castle by the Earl and Countess of Strathmore.
	www.monikie.org.uk /gcb.htm (17646 words)

	Catriona Fraser: Photograph of Glamis Castle
		As far as the 8th century Glamis was a special place, and St. Fergus came from Ireland and was said to have preached to the Picts there.
		Their grandson became Lord Glamis in 1445, the title "Earl of Strathmore" was created in 1606, and the title "Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne" in 1677.
		Glamis is famous as the renowned setting for Shakespeare's famous tragedy "Macbeth" and as the childhood home of the Queen Mother of Great Britain who, before her marriage to the late King George VI, was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Square/4638/glamis.html (410 words)

	The unsightly child of Glamis Castle.. - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
		Glamis castle attracts many visitors and as far as I know the tour guides try to play down the ghost stories as much as possible, preferring instead to talk about the architecture of the place and the fine decoration and furniture which fills it.
		Glamis Castle is thought to be the oldest inhabited castle in Scotland, and since 1372 has been the seat of the Bowes Lyon family, later Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
		Lady Glamis, the beautiful widow of the sixth Lord Glamis, was burnt alive as a witch on Castle Hill, Edinburgh in 1537, and her ghost, surrounded by a reddish glow, has been seen hovering above the clock tower.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=18819 (1262 words)

	Clan Lyon
		Sir John¹s son, Patrick, was created Lord Glamis in 1445 and thereafter became a Privy Councillor and Master of the Royal Household.
		John, the sixth Lord Glamis, was, according to a tradition, a quarrelsome man with a quick temper.
		Lady Glamis was accused on trumped-up charges of witchcraft and, despite speaking boldly in her own defence, her doom was preordained.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/htol/lyon2.html (609 words)

	Historical perspective for Glamis Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		John, sixth Lord, who died in 1528, had wedded Janet Douglas, a sister of the banished Earl of Angus; and she, in 1537, was burned on the Castlehill of Edinburgh on a trumped -up charge of conspiring the destruction of James V. by poison.
		Her son, the young seventh Lord, was involved in the charge, and did not recover title and estates till 1543.
		John, eighth Lord, chancellor of Scotland, was shot at Stirling in a chance fray between his followers and the Earl o Crawford's (1578); his brother, the Master of Glamis, was a chief conspirator in the Raid of Ruthven (1582).
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/features/featurehistory115.html (982 words)

	Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their ninth child, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, married the Duke of York, later King George VI, and in later life was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
		Lord Strathmore died at the age of 89 at Glamis Castle in Angus (Lady Strathmore had died in 1938).
		He was succeeded by his son, Patrick Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Claude_George_Bowes-Lyon,_14th_Earl_of_Strathmore_and_Kinghorne (301 words)

	Glamis Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He was known as "The Wicked Lord" and had an addiction to gambling, drinking, and general excess.
		Many of the Lords of Glamis were much like the one discussed above, and before long the vast family fortune was squandered and the castle in ruins.
		The now-Earl Of Strathmore's decedents became engrossed in the same kind of activities that ruined the former Lords of Glamis.
	www.grimghosts.com /rare/text/glamis.htm (1011 words)

	Articles - Courtesy title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For example, the Duke of Norfolk is also the Earl of Arundel and the Lord Maltravers, and so his son may be styled Earl of Arundel, and the grandson styled Lord Maltravers.
		For instance, the eldest son of the Earl of Devon is Lord Courtenay, even though the Earl has no barony of that name, and similarly the eldest son of the Earl of Guilford is Lord North.
		Another form of courtesy title, in the form of an honorific prefix, is granted to younger sons, and all daughters of peers.
	www.quickize.com /articles/Courtesy_title (1432 words)

	Glamis Castle, Scotland, A TourUK Guide
		Their grandson was made 1st Lord Glamis and since that time the family, later earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne, have owned and lived at the castle.
		In 1540 Lady Janet Douglas, widow of the Earl of Glamis was seized by James V and burned at the stake as a witch.
		James VI was a frequent visitor and in the 17th century the family's favour with the king meant that the 9th Lord Glamis, later Earl of Kingborne, was able to embark on the task of remodeling the entire castle.
	www.touruk.co.uk /castlesscot/castle_Glamis.htm (365 words)

	Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Myths & Mysteries - Glamis Castle: Britain's most haunted house? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		GLAMIS Castle, the childhood home of the late Queen Mother and family home of the Earls of Strathmore, could well be the most haunted house in Britain.
		Malcolm II is reputed to have been murdered in or around the castle in 1034, a servant girl had her tongue ripped out by her master and most horrifying and tragic of all is the story behind the grey lady.
		Lord Glamis is believed to have shouted: "I will play until doomsday," and threw the hapless servant out of the room.
	heritage.scotsman.com /myths.cfm?id=40042005 (823 words)

	Glamis Castle
		The second lord of Glamis, in the fifteenth century, was well known for his debauched lifestyle.
		She is believed to be the ghost of Janet Douglas, the wife of the sixth lord of Glamis, James.
		There was no evidence needed for a trial of that kind, so when she came under suspicion for plotting the murder of the King of Scotland, she was tried, condemned and executed in Edinburgh in 1537.
	etherscribe.tripod.com /glamis_castle.htm (604 words)

	rufus
		She was immensely proud of her father, Lord Glamis - later the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne – and his achievements.
		A later attempt by Lord Glamis to patent the pose and collect royalties for its use was unsuccessful.
		Lord Glamis – again with an eye to his daughter’s sensitivities – ordered the maimed and dying quartered in the stables.
	www.thebug.com.au /1sept00rufus.html (1279 words)

	Leyline Quest: Haunted Castles
		Glamis is a late 17th-century castle built in French chateau style around the remnants of a 14th-century keep whose 5m.
		The ghost of the unfortunate Lady Glamis has been seen many times since her death; she is said to appear in the turret of the clock tower, still wrapped in the flickering flames in which she died.
		Somehow the messengers were misdirected and the Lord of the Isles received the letter that was meant for Uisdean's friend.
	www.geocities.com /leylinequest/leylines_haunted_castles.htm (1589 words)

	Clan Lindsay USA - Castles & Such: Glamis Castle
		Glamis (pronounced Glahmz) Castle is located 5.5 miles SW of Forfar, Angus, off A928.
		Glamis is reported to be one of the most haunted castles in Scotland.
		This, evidently, was the proverbial "last straw" for, as the Earl spoke, a clap of thunder and a flash of lightning brought into the room the Devil himself.
	www.clanlindsayusa.org /castles_glamis.html (247 words)

	Welcome to Invisible Ink--Books on Ghosts & Hauntings
		The castle was originally the residence of the lords of Glamis, who lost their family fortune, after which the castle passed into the hands of Patrick Lyons in the mid-seventeenth century.
		The Monster of Glamis, as he came to be known, was the true heir to the castle and all the wealth that went with it.
		She is thought to be Janet Douglas, the wife of the sixth Lord of Glamis, who was suspected of poisoning her husband.
	www.invink.com /x261.html (561 words)

	Monarch of the glen: the 'little Scottish wife'
		The call of Scotland and the outdoor life that went with it for the scions of the old aristocracy was therefore important for the four sons and four daughters of Lord Glamis.
		When Elizabeth was four, her father became 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and with that inheritance came the moody, red sandstone castle of Glamis and many thousands of acres in the glens of Angus, not to mention 800 years of Scottish history in which their ancestors had regularly held centre stage.
		Trustee Lord Thurso said: “It is the Queen Mother’s wish that in due course the Castle of Mey is enjoyed by the general public.” The Queen had set the trend for allowing commoners into her royal homes by opening up Windsor and Buckingham Palace.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/scotsman/queen_mother.htm (2370 words)

	Angus Council \| Local History \| Features \| Buildings \| Glamis Castle
		Glamis Castle - the noblest architectural ornament in the county
		Lord and the sister of the Earl of Angus, was accused of using sorcery to conspire against the life of James V. She was burned alive as a witch on the Castle Hill of Edinburgh.
		Glamis had been neglected under his father and had suffered for his support of the Covenanting cause and the Marquis of Montrose.
	www.angus.gov.uk /history/features/buildings/glamiscastle.htm (383 words)

	Glamis Castle & Mary, Queen of Scots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Glamis Castle is a magnificent 14th century keep, modified and greatly extended in later times.
		It was remodelled on the French château style by the 3rd Earl of Strathmore between 1650 and 1695.
		James held his court at the Castle until 1542 when he died himself, upon which Glamis was restored to the young 7th Lord of Glamis.
	www.marie-stuart.co.uk /Castles/Glamis.htm (187 words)

	The Scottish Genealogy Society - Peers and Heirs
		In one case, in relation to the Lordship of Glamis, for two periods Sir Thomas Lyon, brother of the 8th Lord Glamis, was designated 'Master of Glamis'.
		It was therefore presumed that the Land descended to the heirs male and on the basis of this assumption Lord Mansfield was of the opinion that there aught to be a presumption in favour of the right of heir male to succeed to peerages of which the destination was not otherwise recorded.
		The Earl of Mansfield was a Scot by birth, being younger son of the 5th Viscount of Stormont and brother of the titular Earl of Dunbar, the Jacobite Secretary of State in exile.
	www.scotsgenealogy.com /online/peers_and_heirs.htm (3971 words)

	Quadrant Magazine
		In 1905 her father succeeded as the thirteenth Earl of Strathmore (she became Lady Elizabeth) and the family moved to Glamis Castle in Angus, ancestral seat for 600 years and the oldest occupied castle in Scotland.
		Her education was mainly by governesses at home; typical of her time and station but sound enough to make an intelligent and surprisingly eclectic reader of her; certainly not highbrow but enough to let her hold her own with novelists and poets.
		Glamis became a convalescent hospital and she played a part in comforting the wounded, among them Anzacs.
	www.quadrant.org.au /php/archive_details_list.php?article_id=365 (3317 words)

	Haunted Castles
		One of the most active ghosts at Glamis Castle is referred to as the "Lady in Gray", but is actually thought to be the ghost of "Lady Janet Glamis".
		Lady Glamis was the wife of "Lord Glamis, whom the castle is named after.
		King James V, confiscated the castle after the death of Lord Glamis, and with his overwhelming hatred of anyone with the Douglas name (Janet's maiden name), he began accusing Janet of practicing withcraft, and making poison with which to kill King James V with.
	www.scs.unr.edu /~srichins/castles.html (439 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Younger daughter and ninth child of Lord Glamis, eldest son and heir of 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and his wife, the former Nina Cecilia ("Celia") Cavendish-Bentinck, a clergyman's daughter from the Duke of Portland's family.
		In the 17th century the Lyons, Lords Glamis, obtained the Earldom of Strathmore; the family name became Bowes-Lyon after the Strathmores had inherited the estates of the coal-rich Durham family of Bowes, whose heiress married the 9th Earl in 1767.
		May: the Yorks are in residence at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, for the Duke's stint as Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in the year that the established church resolves its differences with "the Wee Free".
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/01/ncent01.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/04/01/ixnewstop.html (8801 words)

	Castle of Spirits - The Secrets and Hauntings of Glamis Castle
		Princess Margaret was born at Glamis and it also has the room where King Malcolm of Scotland died after being wounded in battle.
		They were admitted by the lord of Glamis, and led to this chamber.
		Glamis Castle is open to the public usually from 10.30 a.m.-5.30 p.m.
	www.castleofspirits.com /glamis2.html (1231 words)

	Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
		When Lord Glamis married the daughter of Lord Tullibardine, the King allowed the ceremony to take place in the Palace of Linlithgow.
		In 1603 Lord Glamis accompanie d his royal master to England and three years later the King elevated him to the earldom of Kinghorne.
		It is possible that Shakespeare heard stories of Glamis which he used as a fit setting for the grim tragedy of Macbeth.
	www.camelotintl.com /heritage/castles/scotland/glamis/gldunc.html (207 words)

	Overview of Glamis Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Glamis was a Royal hunting lodge from as early as the 11th C., when King Malcolm II (c.954 - 1018) is thought to have been murdered there.
		Lady Janet, the widow of the 6th Lord Glamis was a Douglas at a time when King James V (1512-42) was persecuting that family.
		Glamis was the family home of Queen Elizabeth (1900 - 2002), and the birthplace of Princess Margaret (1930 - 2002).
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/features/featurefirst115.html (366 words)

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