Qualla: Doune Castle https://qualla.com/doune-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/p/doune-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Doune Castle https://qualla.com/doune-castle Doune Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/doune-castle/ Photo credit JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0. There is a moment near the start of *Monty Python and the Holy Grail* when King Arthur and his servant Patsy clatter their imaginary coconut horses up to a castle wall and are insulted in French by a man in chainmail. The wall they ride up to is the east curtain of Doune Castle. Forty years later, the same stones became Winterfell, the home of House Stark in the first season of *Game of Thrones*. A few years after that, the courtyard played Castle Leoch in *Outlander*. Hollywood keeps coming back because Doune has the look that camera operators dream about: a single, almost untouched medieval stronghold sitting on a wooded bend where the Ardoch Burn meets the River Teith, eight miles northwest of Stirling.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/p/doune-castle-wp/gcvp-doune-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Doune Castle: The Regent's House https://qualla.com/doune-castle/ Photo credit Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0. Doune was the work of one man and one ambition. Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, was the third son of King Robert II of Scotland and brother to Robert III. From 1388 until his death in 1420, he was Regent of Scotland in all but name, the most powerful man in the country while his ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/p/doune-castle-wp/gcvp-doune-castle-the-regents-house.mp3 0:06 2 full Doune Castle: Crown, Ruin, Restoration https://qualla.com/doune-castle/ Photo credit Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0. When Albany's son Murdoch was executed by James I in 1425, Doune passed to the crown. The Stewart kings used it as a hunting lodge, a dower house for their queens, and an occasional bolt-hole. Doune was held briefly for Mary, Queen of Scots, after her abdication in 1567, surrende...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/p/doune-castle-wp/gcvp-doune-castle-crown-ruin-restoration.mp3 0:06 3 full Doune Castle: The Holy Grail Problem https://qualla.com/doune-castle/ Photo credit Steve Collis from Melbourne, Australia, CC BY 2.0. In 1974, the Monty Python team had a problem. They had spent years writing their Arthurian parody, secured permission from the National Trust for Scotland to use several castles, and then the Trust withdrew permission at short notice. With production schedules looming, the produc...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/p/doune-castle-wp/gcvp-doune-castle-the-holy-grail-problem.mp3 0:06 4 full Doune Castle: Winterfell and the Kitchen https://qualla.com/doune-castle/ Photo credit HARTLEPOOLMARINA2014, CC BY-SA 4.0. The medieval kitchen at Doune is one of the best preserved of its date in Scotland, a vaulted chamber on the hall level above a cellar, with massive fireplaces and a serving hatch that fed the great hall directly. When HBO arrived in 2009 to film the pilot of *Game of Thrones*, t...

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