Blair Castle: Queen Victoria's Love Affair With Scotland | American Viscountess

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  • This time, Julie Montagu, the American Viscountess visits Blair Castle, the gateway to the Highlands of Scotland. Blair Castle is everything you imagine a Scottish Castle to be - its architecture is the epitome of the Scottish Baronial style - with its fairy-tale turrets and crenelations. It’s here in the 1840s that Queen Victoria first fell in love with the beauty of the Scottish Highlands. Blair Castle is the ancestral home of the Atholl family and today, the Castle and the vast Atholl estates are managed by the Troughton family. Join the American Viscountess for a fascinating visit to this breathtaking castle and experience the wild landscape, explore the hidden delights of the attics, the beautiful Georgian interiors and hear how the Atholl Highlanders guarded Queen Victoria during her stay in 1844, and are today the only remaining private army in Europe.
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  • @kathleenem9207
    @kathleenem9207 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    We did a month long tour of the UK in 2022 and were fortunate to visit and explore this beautiful castle. I vividly remember the gorgeous gown with the beetle wings and feel lucky to have seen it since it will not always be on display.

    • @lisalking2476
      @lisalking2476 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What an amazing experience your vist must have been 😊 I'm jelious 😆 🤣 😂 😹 I'm sure you enjoyed and treasure your memories of your vacation ❤

    • @gonefishing167
      @gonefishing167 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Bit further back than you. We ‘visited’ in 2003. Because the second gulf war had broken out, our ‘tour’ of this glorious castle was the bus driving in and the tour guide saying ‘ this is it folks’. Then off we went . I’d wanted ( and booked) to walk Culloden. Same thing ‘that’s it folks’. We didn’t even get out of the bus. Tour went from 26 days down to 14 days and they’d put two tours together. No complaints though, in a way, we had a wonderful tour with great tour guides . Director I think he called himself, don’t wish to insult him. Beautiful place, all beautiful. Were so lucky are t we to see these gorgeous places. So blessed we were. Hi from Australia 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺🇦🇺

  • @stephaniemonteilh3240
    @stephaniemonteilh3240 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Julie, I truly enjoyed this video as well as all your others. Thank for allowing us to explore with you vicariously. Such a treat! ❤

  • @cynthiaalver
    @cynthiaalver 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I always enjoy your videos, Julie. I never fail to be delighted about the willingness of the various estate or house owners to speak and share their family history with an American woman. Good stuff!

  • @kimsimmons3911
    @kimsimmons3911 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Such a gorgeous estate. Absolutely exquisite. Thank you for sharing your lovely home with all of us. Just stunning....❤❤

  • @yolandamedina2828
    @yolandamedina2828 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    What a beautiful video! Thank for sharing such amazing history. 😊

  • @kjmav10135
    @kjmav10135 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    On a recent trip to Scotland, this was absolutely my favorite fine home that I visited. My favorite part? The lush, beautiful gardens! Absolutely stunning! So nice to see even more of the beautiful home interiors.

  • @chefvaleriewilson8738
    @chefvaleriewilson8738 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That was awesome! I love the Queen Victoria connection. Another one of my favorite parts was when you went in the attic to see all the stuff stored up there. Wow! All the treasures. Thanks for another great show and all the information that we all learned from watching.

  • @hanstroskie4555
    @hanstroskie4555 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you so much, very beautiful places, God Bless you from South Africa

  • @kathleenkrein6464
    @kathleenkrein6464 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.

  • @GoldenZ777
    @GoldenZ777 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Lovely video. I've watched this more than once, and I can't get enough. Thanks for uploading. 😘

  • @gonefishing167
    @gonefishing167 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Wish I could press like more than once. Thank you 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

  • @peggycassara2810
    @peggycassara2810 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow just wow, what a fabulous castle! Gotta go and see this someday soon. Thanks Julie great job as usual.

  • @tonyamyers361
    @tonyamyers361 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Absolutely amazing!!!

  • @judithbeckford616
    @judithbeckford616 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Absolutely beautiful and incredible,thanks!!!

  • @fairchild1737
    @fairchild1737 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was there!
    I brought my family tree, and I showed I was related to the Montegues. The ancient ancestry line of the Blairs. They knew nothing that the Montegues were direct ancestors. I felt at home there, actually. I love the canopy bed. I always, as a child, had a canopy bed.

  • @yishislassieswaiting4748
    @yishislassieswaiting4748 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a fantastically full presentation of the castle, the region and the present day surrounding Blair Castle. An enthusiastic "Thank you!"'

  • @gonefishing167
    @gonefishing167 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful video, thank you so much. 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

  • @cookingwithsalma7752
    @cookingwithsalma7752 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very nice zabdes shering big like my dear friend

  • @CynthiaRutledge-e8j
    @CynthiaRutledge-e8j 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hi Julie, My name is Cynthia and I am a knitter. I gather by some of your vests that you are a knitter. Is this true? I love your shows. They are very entertaining and educational. Thank you so much!

  • @lena-ls2dz
    @lena-ls2dz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    39:29 such a lovely Scottish accent ❤

  • @donnaowens9374
    @donnaowens9374 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very enjoyable

  • @lila6117
    @lila6117 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful, Love the Ladies Dresses!

  • @N0N4M30
    @N0N4M30 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    7:39 🤩 this dress is stunning

  • @lisalking2476
    @lisalking2476 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A telephones exhibition is a grand ideal ☎️ 📞 📳 🤳 📱 📲 especially with the knowlage and the history of the Blair Castle being the first in the area to have a telphone installed 😀 😄 😉 😊 😎 great ideal 👍

  • @sparklyrainbowbunny
    @sparklyrainbowbunny 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hello, what happened to the beginning of the video? It was very cinematic and engaging and then it abruptly cut off

  • @heidimiller5475
    @heidimiller5475 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What happened to the Ruggable advertisement with the Hilton sisters? It ran for about ten seconds and stopped. A Samsung advertisement took over their time.

  • @callmethecommentcountess9329
    @callmethecommentcountess9329 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting

  • @heidimiller5475
    @heidimiller5475 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:05:28 The Duke, Bruce Murray, lives in Africa right now? Or he is visiting Africa as they are speaking, but lives elsewhere the rest of the time? So, then is he related to Bill Murray, the comedian and actor from Saturday Night Live?

  • @KKing55
    @KKing55 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I see lots of land slides all around. What are you doing about those?

  • @lilith3953
    @lilith3953 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So when exactly is "King" Charles going to apologize to the Scottish people for his ancestors actions in the months and years after Culloden?

    • @Ggianni10
      @Ggianni10 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@lilith3953 when is your ancestor going to apologize to mine?

  • @lilith3953
    @lilith3953 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Considering what the house of Hanover did to Scotland in the months and years after Culloden, the British royal family should be too ashamed to go to anywhere near Scotland. Seeing "King" Charles and his sons in kilts makes me want to vomit.

  • @lisalking2476
    @lisalking2476 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dutchess Ann was a beautiful woman 💕

  • @ingridbastos7724
    @ingridbastos7724 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Miss Please take your hands out of your pockets for your next show.

  • @kathleenkrein6464
    @kathleenkrein6464 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Julie, research sustainable permaculture. I saw a documentary of it on TH-cam called Back to Eden. Hope that helps you & others.

  • @heidimiller5475
    @heidimiller5475 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And you rebuilt this Blair castle with the Social Security Widow's benefit money that Michael Webster (Blair) Hill stole from me. He stole from my orphaned children and myself, from 1997 to 2005, when I filed for divorce due to severe spousal abuse, child abuse, neglect, abandonment and severe cruelty from Mike Hill. My daughter Molly has scars all over her arms from trying repeatedly to commit suicide. This went on while you all watched from your satellite camera's. These are approximately the same years that police officer Graham, as he said, was a police officer. It's hard to feel excited about this after all the pain and suffering my orphaned children and myself suffered at the hands of the Blair Family. Mike was cheating on me and stealing my money the whole time, lying to us, abandoning us and tried repeatedly to kill me, both before and after we got married. It is a lovely castle, but it's hard for me to feel any love for the Royal family that is now in power. I have just as much claim to the British Throne as they do. Our family is directly descended from William the Conqueror. Mike stole money, he stole possessions, and he mercilessly tortured my children and myself.

    • @НюраФилин
      @НюраФилин 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ого! Какие страсти, оказывается, у сдержанный англичан с их stiff upper lip....врут, бьют, изменяют, крадут....😢

    • @yishislassieswaiting4748
      @yishislassieswaiting4748 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As a divorcee who was cruelly, yet brilliantly & quietly gaslit out of my marriage and severed forever from my children & grandchildren, you have my empathy and prayers, Heidi. I, too, seem to have a lot of "noble" bloodline (49% Scottish, Dixon of Clan Keith, English Wyatts, etc.), but according to what I've read, not many nobles actually have what we were taught noble character should be. Rather, they seem often to have quite the opposite. It is through reckoning every word and theme of the whole Bible (in its original languages) to be true that I'm able to build a beautiful, yet simple, new life beyond all of the devastating betrayals. May you and your children find True relationship and the lovely silver linings in and through Abba Father / Yeshua to take the memories upon Himself to deal with justly in this life and in the next. Just remember that we will not be forgiven if we do not ask Him to help us find that place of forgiving others - that place of being willing to rejoice over them if ever they truly come to true repentance themselves. I pray you will not choose to allow bitter unforgiveness to eat you and your friendships alive, thereby winning the war over your soul and positive purposes otherwise meant for you during your time in this dimension. 🙏🙏🙏

  • @ManjulaRathnayake-kr9yv
    @ManjulaRathnayake-kr9yv 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What accent is that with rrrrrrrrr....?

    • @marilynmalone6247
      @marilynmalone6247 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Chicago Illinois USA 🇺🇸

  • @heidimiller5475
    @heidimiller5475 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Samuel, since the University of Washington Street fair in 1982, when you got into my coat and took out my marijuana pipe because you were trying to get me into trouble with the law, you have been terrorizing me with threats of jail or prison. You are going to have to pay for my incarceration. Tax money is used to maintain the prisons and jails. If you do send me to jail or prison, I am going to have a nice, long vacation at your expense.

  • @FreeSpirit47
    @FreeSpirit47 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why do these videos have the sickening misogynistic ads?

  • @НюраФилин
    @НюраФилин 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Герцогиня ? Из Чикаго.. в драных штанах.. руки в брюки...wow... 😢

  • @mikewinston8709
    @mikewinston8709 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bertie is totally British aristocracy…..first of all he has no Scottish accent (too vulgar 😂) and secondly a wonderful sartorial disregard.

  • @ChubbyBunnyz
    @ChubbyBunnyz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They both could do with a brush through their hair.... weird

  • @jaureguifederico94
    @jaureguifederico94 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Way too chatty. Wish she talked less.