30/04/2023
Queen Anne Gardens, Stirling Castle.
A peaceful and pretty garden on the sunny south side of the castle, overlooked by the Queen’s Lodgings and the Prince’s Tower. There may have been a royal garden here since the 1400s and the flat lawn was turned into a bowling green in the 1620s.
Stirling was the preferred residence of most of Scotland’s later medieval monarchs, and most added something to its impressive architecture.
Scotland embraced the classical ideas coming from Renaissance Europe during the reign of James IV (1488–1513). He spent much time and money making the castle fit for a European monarch – partly to impress his queen, Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England.
James V continued this legacy, as he was just as keen to impress his second French bride, Queen Mary of Guise. Their daughter, Mary Queen of Scots, lived in the Royal Palace as a child and was crowned here in 1543.
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