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Memory 6 - 1000 Years of Scottish History and the Future of Scotland

Hidden Heritage

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Society & Culture, Arts, History

4.8608 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

In these ‘Memories’ episodes, Emma has selected some of her most treasured memories from the Duchess podcast. On this week’s Memory, we look back to when the Duchess met Catherine Maxwell Stuart of Traquair House and spoke about the 1000 years of Scottish History at the estate and the future of Scotland going forward. In the full episode, we learn what it’s like to be the first Lady Laird of Traquair, we hear the tale behind the famous ‘closed gates’ of Traquair (and why tradition states they must always remain closed), and Catherine educates the Duchess on the most important feature of a Scottish home: A watchtower. Listen to the full episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/catherine-maxwell-stuart-of-traquair-house/id1551120994?i=1000516224076 Resources: https://www.traquair.co.uk/about-traquair/ https://www.belvoircastle.com/ https://www.onefineplay.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yeah, I think Tricquare is actually, it's very unusual. I mean, not only does it have this

0:07.1

extraordinary span of nearly a thousand years of Scottish history. I mean, you can literally

0:12.0

sort of find a part of every century in the house. It also has this wonderful, continuous sort of

0:19.6

family ownership.

0:24.1

But it was a family that was not always on the right side.

0:26.9

In fact, it was more often on the wrong side.

0:31.3

And I think the fact of its survival makes it really quite unique in Scotland.

0:37.9

Some say it's a sort of romantic house of lost causes, but actually it's also a real survivor.

0:44.3

And so I think within Scotland, it is one of the sort of most significant buildings of its age,

0:49.1

and a house that is still lived in of this age is really quite unusual.

0:58.0

So, you know, you travel through time in it, and fantastic to go into rooms which you know are over 7 or 800 years old,

1:01.7

and then come out into a sort of 18th century drawing room.

1:05.8

So it has got a sort of wonderful way of telling the history of Scotland.

1:06.7

Amazing.

1:11.6

So where do you see Scotland's future, if I may ask, with the UK? I mean, it's very interesting. I mean, we were very involved in the 2014 referendum.

1:15.6

I mean, it was fascinating. 2014. It was like Scotland really came alive.

1:20.6

I saw this incredible political engagement and it did have an effect on me.

1:24.6

And I think previously where I would have been very anti-Skottish independence,

1:29.8

I did become much more interested in whether the whole independence idea was possible.

1:37.0

And I have to say that now I think I just believe in a very, very strong Scotland.

1:40.6

I would like to see increasing numbers of powers for Scotland.

1:43.8

Politically, I think

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