Photographs of Doune Castle
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Doune was built in the late 14th century by Robert Stewart, Duke of
Albany, the son of King Robert II of Scotland, and Regent of Scotland from 1388
until his death and has survived relatively unchanged and complete. The castle
passed to the crown in 1425, when Albany's son was executed, and was used as a
royal hunting lodge and dower house.
The castle saw military action during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and
Glencairn's rising in the mid-17th century, and during the Jacobite Risings of
the late 17th and 18th centuries. By 1800 the castle was ruined, but restoration
in the 1880s replaced the timber roofs and internal floors, as well as
interior fittings.
Some scenes from the British comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail were
shot in the castle.
