Inverness Castle

It is said that Duncan was killed by Macbeth in the old fortress which lay to the east of the present castle, but Cawdor Castle or Glamis Castle north of Dundee may have witnessed the cruel deed that Shakespeare immortalized. The first castle was built by David I in the middle of the 12th C but some 500 years later Cromwell ordered his men to build a stone castle on the same site. In 1715 James Francis Edward was proclaimed king there and the last time it was under Jacobite control was during the short reign of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" in 1745. After the Battle of Culloden when the "Young Pretender" was defeated, the Duke of Cumberland ordered it to be burnt to the ground. The present Victorian castle was erected during the first half of