Edinburgh Castle Virtual Tour | The Bloody History of Edinburgh Castle
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- In this video, Margaret takes you on a virtual tour of incredible Edinburgh Castle. NEXT VIDEO: Walking Tour of Edinburgh - • Edinburgh Walking Tour...
Join Margaret and explore all the secrets and stories held inside of Edinburgh Castle. Find out the story behind the REAL Red Wedding from Game of Thrones, see where Mary Queen of Scots lived, where Robert the Bruce and William Wallace waged war, and find out why Bonnie Prince Charlie never managed to capture the castle. You'll walk in the footsteps of military heroes, explore the vaults underneath the castle, and walk through St. Margaret's Chapel, the oldest building in Edinburgh.
Here you will see the Scottish Grown Jewels, Mons Meg, the Edinburgh One O'Clock Gun, the Scottish National War Memorial and more!
The most besieged castle in the United Kingdom, with a price located on the Edinburgh Royal Mile, Edinburgh Castle over 1,000 years of history and many stories to tell - and Margaret is here to share them all with you!
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
01:39 The Esplanade
04:06 The Gatehouse
06:30 The Argyle Battery
10:28 The One O'clock Gun
11:39 Hospital Square
12:23 The Scottish National War Museum
14:54 The Governors House
15:42 The New Barracks
16:37 The Old Prison Vaults
21:02 Fogg's Gate
22:40 Crown Square
23:38 The Royal Palace and Mary, Queen of Scots
32:58 The Honours of Scotland / The Scottish Crown Jewels
36:50 The Great Hall
41:09 The Scottish National War Memorial
43:56 The Queen Anne Building
46:32 David's Tower
48:12 The Real Red Wedding
51:11 The Half Moon Battery
53:20 The Lang Siege
58:18 St. Margaret's Chapel Part 1
59:10 Mons Meg
01:01:20 St. Margaret's Chapel Part 2
01:04:56 The Dog Cemetery
01:05:40 The Final Siege
01:06:53 Exit
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Very Lovely 😍
My mother's name was Margaret, and in recent years I found St Margaret was her 24th Great Grandmother. I planned a visit to Edinburgh on my way to the Platinum Jubilee. Mom wanted to see lots of pictures, then she died eight months before my trip from the Pandemic. My Scottish visit became one of mourning and remembrance. I stopped to pray at St. Margaret's Chapel and was so awed all I could do was thank the lord for my mother. I arrived in Scotland one year ago today, and then this video popped up in my recommendations. 🤎🏰 👑
I'm very sorry for your loss. It is so nice that you are aware of your connection to St. Margaret through your mother.
What a wonderful response
Sorry for your loss but obviously Margaret is around you in everything you do
What a touching story, Michael. I am so sorry for the loss of your mother but am so thankful you were able to visit the chapel and feel that connection to St. Margaret. I hope my video did it justice for you xx
Sorry for your loss.
Wow
I used to do annual inspections of the gas network inside the castle. So I got to access to the whole place and the guide from Historic Scotland took me to other parts to show me as both of us loved our history. The place is truly amazing
We would love to hear your stories!
That is such a cool experience! I am jealous :)
👍👍👍👍 I've recently rejoined Historic Scotland.
Genuinely one of the most pleasant voices I've ever heard. And extremely informative!
Thanks for watching, Jonathan! You may also enjoy Margaret’s tours of other royal palaces: ua-cam.com/play/PLo-M-WVj_1AgnS93gTRHiJWxsgLzCt4CT.html or her Great Fire of London video: ua-cam.com/video/yN9R2MmvVNI/v-deo.html
Once again Margaret knocks it out of the park! What a superb tour! Thanks so very much, I enjoyed learning from you immensely.
Delighted you enjoyed it
Thank you for providing such an outstanding tour of this remarkable historical castle, Margaret! I'm a 14x great grandson of King James IV in several lines. I don't believe that I'll ever be able to see the castle in person, but I feel as though I have been there by way of your thorough and very informative video.
It is reckoned that one out of every four Scots is descended from James IV,
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You are most welcome! Thanks for watching :)
I love it! You've made me want to go back to Edinburgh.
Delighted you enjoyed it
Do ittttt. The baby wants to go!
Haste Ye Back.
I absolutely love Edinburgh Castle. It’s so atmospheric and the history and views are incredible. Thank you so much Margaret 🙂👍
Delighted you enjoyed it
Isn't it amazing? And you are most welcome!
Thank you for this video, Margaret! You do such an incredible job telling the stories of these incredible places! I hope you have one for Balmoral and Stirling Castle in the near future!
You are most welcome, Jackie! Stirling is in my sights, for sure. Balmoral is pretty strict on filming so not sure what I could manage, but never say never..!
Such a great virtual tour of the beautiful Scotland and Edinburgh Castle, Margaret! Always a good job.❤
Thanks for watching
You are most welcome, as always! :)
Margaret was our guide for the Royal Mile free tour. She was lively and an excellent storyteller . Great to see her here since we weren’t able to visit Edinburgh Castle due to King Charles’ visit.
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I am so glad to have discovered this channel. Not only have I learned a lot, but I love the sound of your calming voice. Ty
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Thank you so much, Rhi. :)
Your voice is a joy to listen to .
Thanks for watching! You may also enjoy Margaret’s tours of other royal palaces: ua-cam.com/play/PLo-M-WVj_1AgnS93gTRHiJWxsgLzCt4CT.html or her Great Fire of London video: ua-cam.com/video/yN9R2MmvVNI/v-deo.html
Thank you so much!
This was fascinating from start to finish. PS -- My mother's name is Margaret, Glasgow born and bread.
Thanks for watching! You may also enjoy Margaret’s tours of other royal palaces: ua-cam.com/play/PLo-M-WVj_1AgnS93gTRHiJWxsgLzCt4CT.html or her recent Great Fire of London video: ua-cam.com/video/yN9R2MmvVNI/v-deo.html
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! And I love hearing about another fellow Margaret
Absolutely WONDERFUL tour, Sinead! Thank you for doing this for us!!❤🇺🇲🇬🇧
This one was Margaret :) And you are melt welcome!
Margaret, Thank you for another excellent video. Love all the Information that you supplied about Edinburgh Castle. Do much knowledge.
Thanks for watching Donna
Hope your well
Sinead
You are so welcome, Donna, thank you for your continued support!
Thanks for the tour. You did a very good job sharing history of the castle.
You are so welcome! I'm glad you liked it :)
This is outstanding . Thx you very much for this virtual tour ❤Love it .
Delighted you enjoyed it
You are most welcome - I am glad you enjoyed it :)
Loved the tour! Thank you!❤
Delighted you enjoyed it
You are most welcome, Allie!
So fascinating!! Thank you for this 🇨🇦❤️
Delighted you enjoyed it
Absolutely my pleasure, as always :)
I love Scotland lovely place Tessa Edinburgh castle and all castles are .wish I lived. In one Tessa or many castles all buildings are special to me tess❤
I wish I lived in one, too! Although I'd hate to have to clean it...
Thank you Margaret!! Amazing!
Thanks for watching! You may also enjoy Margaret’s tours of other royal palaces: ua-cam.com/play/PLo-M-WVj_1AgnS93gTRHiJWxsgLzCt4CT.html or her recent Great Fire of London video: ua-cam.com/video/yN9R2MmvVNI/v-deo.html
Amazing tour!
I'm so glad you liked it! I've done a couple other palaces/castles you may enjoy, too - ua-cam.com/play/PLo-M-WVj_1AgnS93gTRHiJWxsgLzCt4CT.html
That was amazing! Thank you
Thanks for watching, Michelle! You may also enjoy Margaret’s tours of other royal palaces: ua-cam.com/play/PLo-M-WVj_1AgnS93gTRHiJWxsgLzCt4CT.html
You are most welcome, Michelle :)
Throughly enjoyed this . Thank you.
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@@FreeToursbyFootLondon oh fantastic thanks for the link. I shall take a look.❤️🇦🇺🇬🇧
You are so welcome, Annie, I am glad you enjoyed my work!
Love this video!!. Thank you Margaret!! I love this great old castle. and love to visit it. ❤❤
Thanks for watching, Christine! You may also enjoy Margaret’s tours of other royal palaces: ua-cam.com/play/PLo-M-WVj_1AgnS93gTRHiJWxsgLzCt4CT.html
You are so welcome! I'm glad you liked it :)
This was brilliant. Thank you so much..😊
Thanks for watching, Sabrina! You may also enjoy Margaret’s tours of other royal palaces: ua-cam.com/play/PLo-M-WVj_1AgnS93gTRHiJWxsgLzCt4CT.html or her recent Great Fire of London video: ua-cam.com/video/yN9R2MmvVNI/v-deo.html
You are most welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Lovely to hear your beautiful voice again. Your tours are always great.
So nice to see your name pop up, Mike! I'm glad you liked this one :) I should have one more to come this Autumn x
I very much look forward to it, thank you !
Really excellent documentary and overview; she goes into good detail but at a steady pace easy to absorb and it has definitely encouraged me to visit Edinburgh Castle some day in the near future; Thank you
Thanks for watching, Matt! You may also enjoy Margaret’s tours of other royal palaces: ua-cam.com/play/PLo-M-WVj_1AgnS93gTRHiJWxsgLzCt4CT.html or her Great Fire of London video: ua-cam.com/video/yN9R2MmvVNI/v-deo.html
I'm so glad you enjoyed this one! It's definitely worth a visit :)
Great tour Margaret very interesting!
Thanks for watching
Thank you, Beverley! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
Brilliant video. Visited 2023 November and we had only 1 day in Edinburgh. We did the bus tour, but for the same 4 hours, it looks like a thorough castle tour would have served better. Cheers from LaLa Land, California.
Thanks for watching, Brad! You may also enjoy Margaret’s tours of other royal palaces: ua-cam.com/play/PLo-M-WVj_1AgnS93gTRHiJWxsgLzCt4CT.html or her Great Fire of London video: ua-cam.com/video/yN9R2MmvVNI/v-deo.html
That just means you'll have to come back ;)
Well that was a surprise about the usage of the rabbits foot. Fortunately your humour is still intact. Another wonderful tour. With grandparents from Scotland whose brogue was so thick as a kid i wondered what language they actually spoke. The WWI hero Haig was given to my father as his middle name in honour. This was another great tour, Margaret, even without any medieval fire extinguishers. I guess the Scots were more diligent! I also thought the use of photos was an appropriate and respectful way of allowing us to see in where cameras cannot go. Good choice. Fun and informative as always.🎉🎉🎉
I'm so glad you enjoyed this one! That's so interesting about your grandparents and your dad's middle name - thank you for sharing that. I am not very much hoping my next video has a fire extinguisher for you but I cannot promise anything. Thank you so much, as ever, for your kind and thoughtful comments! You have definitely made my evening :)
Sorry to busiest your bubble Haig was prick
Hi,, awesome live history video I enjoyed it. I went to Scotland in 1996. I went to the city of Glasgow Scotland. Very beautiful historical city. How are you? I'm doing well. Have a great day see you next video greetings from Canada 😊
Glad you liked this one, Michelle! Always good to hear from you :)
Beautifully exploring 👌
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First visit here. Brilliant video. Edinburgh Castle is on my doorstep. I feel a visit coming on. 👋👋
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If you go, let me know what you think!
I have visited here , this info is gold , I will b returning soon , but much enriched with well delivered info , thank you ,
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You are most welcome, Darryn :)
Another great history presentation…👍🏼
Delighted you enjoyed it Chuck
Sinead
So glad you liked it, Chuck :)
Love these videos. Margaret rules! From Iran.
Oh my goodness 😱 how stunning!!! I’m in Australia and the oldest thing here are rocks
Haha - I was born in California so I know that feeling! Glad you enjoyed it :)
I loved this video. I didnt know any of its history and had only seen pictures of the cadtle from the outside.
Thanks for watching, Jacqueline! You may also enjoy Margaret’s tours of other royal palaces: ua-cam.com/play/PLo-M-WVj_1AgnS93gTRHiJWxsgLzCt4CT.html or her recent Great Fire of London video: ua-cam.com/video/yN9R2MmvVNI/v-deo.html
Glad I could show you something new! :)
Thanks!
Thank you MJ
Thank you so much!
Robert the Bruce is a long distant cousin of mine as well as king Henry the 8th. Thank you for this
That's so cool! I'm glad you liked it :)
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I got interested with Scotland history during Robert Bruce thanks to historical romance series of author Monica McCarty where she used historical events and figures(like Thomas Randall, Earl of Moray, etc) of that time for her books. Amazing castles. Hope to visit them in the near future.
We hope you make it there!
Very interesting I want to go to see th castle .
You should
I hope you make it there one day!
Thank you for sharing. My first name is Margaret.❤
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You are most welcome!
Thank you for the lack of bagpipes. I'm serious. I'm of Scottish heritage and have had more than enough of bagpipes.
Hah - you are most welcome!
My dream to go to Edinburgh😍
I hope you make it one day!
👍👍
Always gotta get the Theo thumbs up!
@@margaretstockton-davies3828 Appreciate you ma'am
My Sister was married in St Margarets Chapel over 40 years ago.
That is so cool!
Great job.
One thing though, I am pretty sure the "L" in Kirkcaldy is silent.
We have always said it as "Kir-kawdy", accent on the "kaw".
Oh thank you for the tip! I'm glad you liked it :)
Auntie Margaret, RIP.
💯👍👍
Do not forget the Nova Scotia Plaque on the esplanade!
I wish I had time to point out everything! Maybe I could release a deep-cup of 8 hours for the hardcore people watching ;)
You have a beautiful voice ❤
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Thank you, Sara :)
This sadly got Mary killed Tess but Liz did not want to kill Liz was forced to by her party Tess .Mary said she will never live tess❤
I have to aunty Margaret's...
One can spot a genuine medieval portcullis by the Murder Holes in the arch above, through which arrows would be shot and boiling pitch, water and excrement would be tipped on the invaders attempting to enter.
Indeed, Tony!
Nice tour, but all the building's stones need to be cleaned of the smut and mold. It would be so much nicer if the stones were cleaned.
Glad that you enjoyed the video! If you haven't done so already, you can hopefully check out our back catalogue of virtual London tours ua-cam.com/users/FreeToursbyFootLondonvideos. There is more where this came from.
I'd give it a shot myself but I doubt they'd let me ;)
What is "virtual" on this video tour? 🤔
You aren't actually there ;)
She reminds me of Amy adams
I'll take that! ;)
Enjoyed the tour very much. One error I noticed near the end which refered to the British crown. There is no such crown. There are two crowns . Scotland's and England's. Neither were abolished and still exist as do the two sovereign states.
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A good point! Glad you enjoyed it :)
All buildings are lovely and some people . Mary queen of Scott's was used by people and forced to marry her second husband who killed Mary first husband did she know this not sure tess
Voice is too soft:(
You ma find our back catalogue of virtual tours easier to hear! ua-cam.com/users/FreeToursbyFootLondonvideos.
Moray is pronounced Murray.
Thanks for the tip!
Well.....I have a definite feeling of dread.
Why? I think it's an American accent, it's not that bad.
@@KS-ni6ii Okay this got me - haha!
In a good way..?!
@@margaretstockton-davies3828 of course 😁 love your videos ❤️
Imagine paying a fortune to watch the Tattoo and find that your seat is high up, enough for your panic attacks to kick in to high gear as all you see is how high up off Princes Street you are! 😱
P. S. In the word KIRKCALDY, the " L" is silent effectively pronounced " Kirk_Awww_deh
Thanks for sharing! Big Stephen King fans over here, too :)
Oh noooo, don't tell me that's what happened to you..?! And thank you for the tip - a couple people have mentioned it and I have been debating if I should try to make a voice edit but think it may be too much trouble!
Es ist schade das man es nicht auf Deutsche Sprache lesen kann oder hören kann .sehr schade ,!, !
We love it, too!
I think my two years of German in high school weren't enough! I wish I had kept up with it and then maybe I could've translated this for you! x
Its hard to understand you as it seems like you are whispering
Apologies for that, Tracey!
@@margaretstockton-davies3828 No need to apologise, I can clearly understand you.
I have many Scottish ancestors who ended up in the Americas. My original family surname was probably Ross, we have connections to the Munro and Lindsey clans. How my ancestors ended up in England again later don't know. Strange world. I am a proud English man now.
I find Scottish history strange. Andrew Murray is the real hero of the Scottish wars and they would never have won the battle of Sterling bridge without him. Bruce and Wallace were of Norman origins and the wars to them l Believe to them were a land grab. Many Scottish Lords had land on both sides of the boarder. There is a good book called 'Freedoms Sword' by Traquair. Bruce was also a murderer.
Sorry auto-text made a mess of this. I can't re-edit it.
@@michaelwhite8031 I can understand it fine :) Thanks for the extra info - and the book recommendation. It is interesting to think at some point your ancestors packed up an jumped the border but their reasons are lost to time..!
Stirling Bridge. And Wallace was of Welsh descent.Also many Kings were murderers back then.
I just had to stop listening. Although the subject and informatiom are interesting, the narration was very difficult to listen to.