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The aristocrat who converted to Islam and inspired a pilgrimage to a lonely Highland mountain

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Lady Evelyn Cobbold is believed to have been the first British woman to make the pilgrimage to Mecca. The noblewoman undertaking the Hajj in 1933 aged 65, later documenting her travels in a book. She is buried in an isolated spot on her former estate at Glencarron in Wester Ross.

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The aristocrat who converted to Islam and inspired a pilgrimage to a lonely Highland mountain

She was a Highland aristocrat, a socialite, a “good shot” – and a Muslim whose conversion to Islam has inspired a pilgrimage to her grave deep in the mountains of Wester Ross.

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