The Best of Blair: Top things to do and see at Blair Castle - Scottish Field

The Best of Blair: Top things to do and see at Blair Castle - Scottish Field

Blair Castle, the ancestral seat of the Earls and Dukes of Atholl, has been their family home for 750 years, so there’s no shortage of history to this magnificent white, turreted pile just off the A9 in Highland Perthshire. Together, the sprawling castle’s interior and spectacular gardens combine to produce one of the best visitor… The post The Best of Blair: Top things to do and see at Blair Castle appeared first on Scottish Field.

Blair Castle’s Atholl Highlanders parade in Washington

As part of their tour of the United States, the Atholl Highlanders, the UK’s only private Army, raised and commanded by the Dukes of Atholl, and based at their ancestral home of Blair Castle in Highland Perthshire, have paraded at the British Embassy in Washington. In what is the fourth tour of the States undertaken by the Atholl Highlanders in its long and proud history, and having last toured there as a regiment in 2012, the 62 strong continge…