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Glamis is set in the broad and fertile lowland valley of Strathmore, near Forfar, county town of Angus, which lies between the Sidlaw Hills to the south and the Grampian Mountains to the north, approximately inland from the North Sea.
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In the following scene, a wounded sergeant reports to King Duncan of Scotland that his generalsMacbeth, who is the Thane of Glamis, and Banquohave just defeated the allied forces of Norway and Ireland, who were led by the traitorous Macdonwald and the Thane of Cawdor.
Glamis is currently the home of Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, a former army officer, who succeeded to the earldom in 1987.
The most famous legend connected with the castle is that of the Monster of Glamis, a hideously deformed child born to the family.
There is an old story that guests staying at Glamis once hung towels from the windows of every room in a bid to find the bricked-up suite of the monster.
The story given to visitors by castle tour guides states that one seat in the chapel is always reserved for the " Grey Lady " ( supposedly a ghost which inhabits the castle ), thought to be Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis.
It is approximately five miles ( 8 km ) from Glamis Castle, seat of the Bowes-Lyon family and ancestral home of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and where the late Princess Margaret, younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II, was born in 1930.
In the parliament of 1471 he is the fourth Lord of Parliament ranked immediately after the Lord Glamis ( cr. 1445 ).
Dyce is the site of an early medieval church dedicated to the 8th century missionary and bishop St. Fergus, otherwise associated with Glamis, Angus.
* In the comic book series The Invisibles, the character of the Moonchild is said to be the Monster of Glamis.
* in Haunted by Kelley Armstrong, the story of the Monster of Glamis is linked to the demon Dantalian, trapped within the walls of Glamis Castle.
* in the novel " Death at Glamis Castle " by Robin Paige the Monster of Glamis tale is stirred up during a murder investigation.
Glamis () is a small village in Angus, Scotland, located four miles south of Kirriemuir and five miles southwest of Forfar.
In the tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare Macbeth is the Thane of Glamis and later the Thane of Cawdor.
The son of Red Brucie of Glamis and Bright Bauble of Glamis, Pal's ancestry is traced to the nineteenth century and England's first great collie, " Old Cockie ".
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Kirriemuir sits looking south towards Glamis and the Sidlaws over Strathmore ( one of the most fertile fruit growing areas in Scotland ).
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Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the youngest daughter and the ninth of ten children of Claude Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis, ( later the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in the Peerage of Scotland ), and his wife, Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck.
In 1677, the third Earl of Kinghorne obtained a new patent of nobility, being styled thereafter Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Viscount Lyon, Baron Glamis, Tannadyce, Sidlaw and Strathdichtie.
* Timothy Patrick Bowes-Lyon ( 18 March 1918 – 13 September 1972 ), styled Master of Glamis from 1941, Lord Glamis from 1944, and later 16th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne ; married Bridget Brennan, had one daughter who died in infancy
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Upon succeeding his father to the Earldom on 16 February 1904, he inherited large estates in Scotland and England, including Glamis Castle, St Paul's Walden Bury, and Woolmers Park, near Hertford.
Shortly after passing through the small community of Glamis, the road turns northeast and eventually north towards Blythe, passing near the Chocolate Mountain Naval Reserve.
Glamis and Forfar
The name may refer to the pie's frequent presence on wedding menus, or to Margaret Bridie of Glamis, " who sold them at the Buttermarket in Forfar ".
In February 1532 he, Lord Oliphant, and various barons in that district of Scotland were fined for not appearing to sit as jurymen at the trial of Lady Glamis at Forfar for poisoning her husband.
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John Lyon, 6th Lord Glamis, married Janet Douglas, daughter of the Master of Angus, at a time when King James V was feuding with the Douglases.
The concept for the series originated in 1976 with Cedric Messina, a veteran BBC producer, who was on location at Glamis Castle in Angus, Scotland, shooting J. M.
The Earl of Angus was married three times: ( 1 ) 13 June 1573 Mary Erskine, a daughter of the 1st Earl of Mar ; ( 2 ) 25 December 1575 ( divorced 1587 ) Margaret, a daughter of George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes ;( 3 ) 29 July 1587 Jean, a daughter of John Lyons, 8th Lord Glamis, with whom he had a daughter Margaret, who died young.
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