The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.

In 2001, his triple concerto was used in the soundtrack of The Last Castle, featuring Robert Redford and James Gandolfini.

Another small oil on parchment, Danube Landscape with Castle Wörth ( c. 1520 ) is one of the earliest accurate topographical paintings of a particular building in its setting, of a type that was to become a cliché in later centuries.

Over the next four hundred years the Castle was successively developed according to contemporary architectural ideas.

A fire in the late 17th century was followed by some repairs, but in 1725 the family purchased 17th century Aberdour House, on the west side of the burn and in Wester Aberdour, and the medieval Castle was allowed to fall into relative decay.

In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the scene of a reputed massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the pious and ruthless William de Braose.

During the period 1825 – 1863 a sheep market was held at a site in Castle Street, to stop the sale of sheep on the streets of the town.

* 1870: In this cleared land a small Shinto shrine once in old Edo Castle was built.

He made his headquarters at Chicago's Lexington Hotel ; after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, it was nicknamed " Capone's Castle ".

Here Vernon and Irene Castle were important, and so was a generation of English dancers in the 1920s, including Josephine Bradley and Victor Silvester.

In 1887, when Dalguise was no longer available, the Potters took their first summer holiday in Lancashire in the Lake District, at Wray Castle near Windermere.

In 1911, Bartók wrote what was to be his only opera, Bluebeard's Castle, dedicated to Márta.

In 1996, the year after the film was released, the annual three-day " Braveheart Conference " at Stirling Castle attracted fans of Braveheart, increasing the conference's attendance to 167, 000 from 66, 000 in the previous year.

In 1798 the bay was protected at its western end by extensive rocky shoals, which ran into the bay from a promontory guarded by Aboukir Castle.

It was demolished, and the current Balmoral Castle was completed in 1856.

Balmoral Castle was the birthplace of Victoria Eugenie of Spain, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

The 1997 film Mrs. Brown was also based on events at Balmoral, although in both films substitute locations were used: Blairquhan Castle in The Queen ; and Duns Castle in Mrs Brown.

An accomplished amateur magician himself, he hosted several TV specials in the mid-1970s which featured other amateur magicians, and was a respected member of the Hollywood magic community, belonging to The Magic Castle, an exclusive club for magicians.

In 1831, a legislative assembly was established by local consent at a meeting of principal inhabitants held at Pedro St. James Castle on December 5 of that year.

Its city walls were much imitated ( for example, see Caernarfon Castle ) and its urban infrastructure was moreover a marvel throughout the Middle Ages, keeping alive the art, skill and technical expertise of the Roman Empire.

The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet called The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations which was published in the mid-1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle, the Earl of Eglinton.

In 1865 the ' Rules of the Eglinton Castle and Cassiobury Croquet ' was published by Edmund Routledge.

As noted, twelve years before his death Oxford sold his interest in Castle Hedingham to Lord Burghley, in trust for his three daughters by his first marriage.

The boarding school in Plön Castle was closed in 2001 under the state government of Heide Simonis and the castle was sold to the Fielmann optical company.

The house was sold in 1834 and the gallery interior moved to East Cowes Castle.

The Castle itself was sold for a reported figure of £ 20, 000 to Richard Boyle, 4th Earl of Shannon with in the year.

However, in June 2012, Castle & Cooke sold its island possessions ( totaling 98 % of the island ) to billionaire Larry Ellison for an undisclosed sum.

James sold off many royal castles in England to property developers, including York and Southampton Castle.

Some of the more significant cases included St Donat's Castle, bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1925 and then decorated with numerous medieval buildings removed from their original sites around Britain, and the case of Hornby, where many parts of the castle were sold off and sent to buyers in the United States.

In 1404, the nearly 250-year rule of the dynasty of the Lords of Colditz ended when Thimo VIII sold Colditz Castle for 15, 000 silver marks to the Wettin ruler of the period in Saxony.

He sold Bouillon Castle to the Bishopric of Liège.

In 1978, Warwick Castle was sold to Tussauds, a large visitor attraction operator.

The Castle was used as an officers ' rest home during the Second World War, and in 1950 the estate farms were sold off.

It acquired Camerons Brewery in Hartlepool in 1992 and sold it to Castle Eden in 2002, whilst retaining some of Cameron's tied pubs.

Much of the armour of the Scottish casualties was sold on the field, and 350 suits of armour were taken to Nottingham Castle.

To help pay his fine, Tufton sold Bodiam Castle for £ 6, 000 (£ as of 2008 ) in March 1644 to Nathaniel Powell, a Parliamentarian.

In 1924, the Earl of Lonsdale sold Whitehaven Castle to Mr H. Walker, who then donated the building to the people of Cumbria, along with monies to convert it into a hospital to replace the Victorian Whitehaven Hospital.

A copy " from the Royal Castle of Nuremberg ", crafted for public display, was sold through J. Ichenhauser of London to the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1890, along with other torture devices, and, after being displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, was taken on an American tour.

Often hybrids between L. polyphyllus and L. arboreus are used, and sold under hybrid names such as Rainbow Lupins, Lupin Tutti Fruitti, and Band of Nobles ( mixed ), Chandelier ( yellow ), My Castle ( red ), Noble Maiden ( white ) The Chatelaine ( pink ), and The Governor ( blue ).

Castle Heiligenberg, property of the Mountbattens until 1920, sold for a pittance because of inflation in Germany

The painting was sold at Christie's in 2004 and is now displayed in Nottingham Castle.

After the dis-establishment of the Church of England, at the end of the first civil war, Auckland Castle was sold to Sir Arthur Hazelrig, who demolished much of the castle, including the chapel, and built a mansion.

In the 1990s Logo Records and the Transatlantic Records catalogue was sold to Castle Communications ( now Sanctuary Records.

In 1912, the Castle was sold to a private owner.

The 1st Duke of Chandos sold the Castle Hotel to John Walcot who in turn sold it to Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey ( 1725-1774 ), known as ‘ Clive of India ’, who amassed such wealth during his time in that country that Horace Walpole writing from London to a country friend said: ‘ you will be frightened by the dearness of everything ...