If you have £8,000,000 to spare you might consider buying Seton Castle with its links to Mary Queen of Scots.  Seton Palace apparently was her favourite palace and she went there after the murder of David  Rizzio in 1566 and also after the assassination of Lord Darnley her second husband with whom she had also stayed at the palace on her honeymoon.   She felt that she could relax there away from the pressures of her reign and played golf on Preston Links nearby and practised archery in the grounds.
The castle is built on the site of the palace that Mary knew, incorporating stones from the palace since it fell into disrepair after the Jacobite rebellion in the 18th century. It had previously been considered to be the “most magnificent palace in Scotland.  In 1789 the famous architect Robert Adam was commissioned to design a new mansion on the site with a four storey mansion linked to U-shaped wings around a parterre courtyard.  Early this century it was restored and modernised.
The night before the queen was defeated and taken prisoner at Carberry Hill her army camped at the castle and most probably in this field before marching to Carberry about 5 miles away. 


This is no 41 of my series of places associated with Mary.