Lake of Menteith

Crowned at nine months by Cardinal Beaton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, she was immediately hidden by her mother, who was afraid of treacherous dealing in the King of England in Stirling Castle.

Two years later, not finding even this fortress safe enough, she removed her to an island in the middle of the Lake of Menteith, where a priory, the only building in the place, provided an asylum for the royal child and for four young girls born in the same year as herself, having like her the sweet name, which is an anagram of the word Amir, and who, quitting her neither in her good nor in her evil fortune, were called the Queen's Marys.

They were Mary Livingston, Mary Fleming, Mary Seton, and Mary Beaton.

Mary stayed in this priory till Parliament, having approved her marriage with the French Dauphin, son of Henry II.

The Queen was very ordinary.

I remember walking with her along Loch Menteith at, um, at Balmoral, and there was a little sort of stream running down from higher ground, and the water was being blocked by stones, and she bent down and picked them up and threw the stones away, and then rubbed her hands on her skirt, and we carried on walking.

That's the sort of woman she was.

Aw.

And last year we got knocked out in the first round of one of the major team events we did.

This year, I think I was at Lake Menteith guiding for the week when the heat that they decided to do was on and so I couldn't do it and they got knocked out of that.

So I didn't go any further than that one.

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