SEVEN ESTATES

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 February 1939, Page 10

SEVEN ESTATES

DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH’S HOMES

The family seal of the Scotts, Bowhill. Selkirk, in the romantic Border country, has been re-opened by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, writes Marianne Mayfayre in the “Daily Telegraph.” It has been unoccupied for the last two years. The death there in 1935 of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch, the Duchess of Gloucester’s father. 18 days before her marriage, altered the royal wedding plans. The Duke and Lady Alice Scott were married privately in the chapel at Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Buccleiicli has seven homes. Bowhill, states the writer, is once again to become the family headquarters. The Duke will reside there the greater part of the year, with a Summer stay at Boughton House, Kettering—the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester’s honeymoon house —an Autumn family party for grouse shooting al Druinlalirig Castle, in Dumfriesshire, and short stays in town at No. 2 Grosvenor Place. Eildon Hall. St. Boswells, has been the home of the Duke of Buccleuch recently. It is now empty. t

Little in the way of decoration was found necessary at Bowhill, which is almost unchanged since the days when it helped to inspire Sir Walter Scott to write the “Lav of the Last Minstrel.”