Clan Stewart - Edinburgh Castle - Photo Print Size:30"x20" but it was the Douglas

but it was the Douglas centuries that gave Hermitage its reputation

Handmade by specialist picture framers

a Gordon stronghold on the River Dee in Aberdeenshire that the family had held since the early fifteenth century

A fortress that took two of history's most determined armies to bring down

The Douglases held Hermitage through generations of border warfare

Clan Stewart - Edinburgh Castle - Photo Print Size:30"x20" but it was the DouglasEdinburgh Castle, on its ancient volcanic rock above Scotland's capital, sits at the heart of House of Stewart history in a way no other building quite does. Robert II became Scotland's first Stewart monarch in 1371, tracing his right to the throne through his mother Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert the Bruce, and for the two and a half centuries that followed, Edinburgh Castle was central to how his dynasty administered and defended their kingdom.