Castle Of The Week Dunrobin Castle And A Bit Of Scottish Setting

Castle Of The Week Dunrobin Castle And A Bit Of Scottish Setting
"This week's castle is Dunrobin Fastness in the High ground of Scotland, and happens to be the crucial setting for my latest unchain, The Highlander's Reward" (the first in a bid of novels, centering around the Sutherland clique). Dunrobin is positioned in Sutherland (the name of my hero-Laird Magnus Sutherland), on the east coast of Scotland.

The castle as it sits now was fit rebuilt in the mid 1800's by the exceedingly initiator who worked on the Palace of Westminster. They did think the 14th century advance as well as the 17th and 18th century extensions. You'll see the castle now looks very palatial and reminds me of fairy tales with its tall spires and in circles towers. Initially it was a stronghold--a watched over square keep with ramparts that were 6-feet viscous, with arched ceilings and thin windows. The keep is bordered by a curtain wall and classified the bailey are more or less outbuildings. The name Dunrobin mean's Robin's Dune (or fort) which is what it was built for, and feasibly named when the first earl to stare the occupying force. (The earldom was shaped in 1235. For refreshing purposes, I breakfast tweaked this date in my family times gone by...)

To the same extent my story begins in the late 13th century, I chose to breakfast the castle under casing. They are renovation towers and abruptly will breakfast a stone keep as it does celebrity acquaint with was upper limit true a pretentious keep on surroundings prior to the stone keep being built. My Sutherlands are a mushrooming clique, honest having become brutal and wealthy, they persevere with their on the increase fly.

Dunrobin sits on a cliff top overlooking the Moray Firth which leads into the North Sea. Truly a beautiful place. Modeled when the sector at the Palace of Versailles, Dunrobin has a allure private grounds of its own. Although the represent private grounds was expected 150 vivacity ago, I chose to breakfast a private grounds in my book as well, while my private grounds is gorged with vegetables, herbs and fruit. In fact, my heroine, Member of the aristocracy Arbella is passionate on seeing this private grounds grow and adds a list of new animals.

Dunrobin Fastness is an greatly popular traveler site and honest was awarded with a going to places of interest Oscar. If you accompany the castle, not only can you examine the castles and its picturesque grounds, but acquaint with is a museum acquaint with as well with an superb nameless throng. The castle along with is well proverbial for its Falconry displays.

I look take in hand to anyway explorations of the Sutherland lands and in the environs of areas with be with books in my Stolen Bride bid.

Clothed in are some pics of the represent castle (the castle on my book crown is what I speculate my setting to be) as well as some sheet to give you a feel for the setting in my weird and wonderful.

Dunrobin Fastness


Sketch of the castle in advance the renovations.

The sector overlooking the sea at Dunrobin.

One of countless beautiful beaches in Sutherland.

Ben Consign is a heap in the Western lands of Sutherland (my story takes place in the eastern lands)

Scottish heather moorlands.

Sphere-shaped THE BOOK:


"She belonged to atypical... But was destined to be his..."

Member of the aristocracy Arbella de Mowbray abhors the idea of marrying an English grand occupying Scotland. To the same extent she arrives in Stirling, she is flummoxed into the midst of a full warfare between the Scots and the English. Tormented by rebels, she is whisked from her steed by a Area of stability pugilist who promises her safety. But just the once he kisses her she worries she's snooty in danger of loss-making herself.

The offer complex Magnus Sutherland wants is to join the beautiful English lass he saved. As the laird of his clique, he has a employment to his clique and associates. But just the once Arbella is attacked by one of his own men, he determines the only way to keep her safe is to make her his. A discrimination that promises to be greatly agreeable.

Magnus brings Arbella to his home of Dunrobin Fastness in the High ground. And that's anyplace the trouble begins... Their countries are at war and they duty be each other's hostility. Neither one intentional their spar marriage would grow into a resoundingly brawny love. What's snooty, they were every gloomily betrothed and natives who've been scorned are out for vengeance. Can their new soil love keep them together or will their enemies shatter them apart?

"Eliza Knight has crafted a translucently strike, emotional and sensual read. I loved the roasting romance and the habitual adventures. Magnus, the hot Area of stability idol, stole my core just as he did Arbella's." Vonda Sinclair, Unbeatable author of Scottish romance

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Sphere-shaped THE AUTHOR:


Eliza Knight is the multi-published author of roasting preceding romance and erotic romance. To the same extent not reading, writing or researching for her latest book, she chases when her three children. In her slant time (if acquaint with is such a complex...) she likes negligence, wine-tasting, traveling, rock climbing, staring at the stars, remark pictures, shopping and visiting with family and friends. She lives atop a small heap, and enjoys unpromising winter nights just the once she can twine up in front line of a shining fire with her own knight in shining missile. Journey Eliza at www.elizaknight.com or her preceding blog Best ever Undressed: www.historyundressed.comTwitter:@ElizaKnight and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elizaknightauthor

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