Qualla: Abergeldie Castle https://qualla.com/abergeldie-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Abergeldie Castle https://qualla.com/abergeldie-castle Abergeldie Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/abergeldie-castle/ On a January morning in 2016, the laird of Abergeldie watched the river take his lawn. The Dee, swollen by Storm Frank, had been gnawing at the south bank for hours, and by the time the floodwaters finally receded, the four-storey tower house stood on what survivors later described as a precipice - a twelve-foot drop where solid ground had been the day before. John Seton Howard Gordon, the 21st Laird and last man to actually live in the castle, was 76 years old when he was evacuated. Engineers braced the masonry within days. The Gordons had held this ground for six centuries, and the river was not going to win on a single weekend.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/s/abergeldie-castle-wp/gfjs-abergeldie-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Abergeldie Castle: Six Hundred Years of One Family https://qualla.com/abergeldie-castle/ The Gordons came to Abergeldie around 1550 and have not really left since. That is one of the longest unbroken records of ownership of any property in Scotland - longer than the United Kingdom has existed, longer than most European nations have kept their current borders. The cas...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/s/abergeldie-castle-wp/gfjs-abergeldie-castle-six-hundred-years-of-one-family.mp3 0:06 2 full Abergeldie Castle: Royal Neighbours https://qualla.com/abergeldie-castle/ Two miles east lies Balmoral, and that proximity changed everything. After Queen Victoria fell in love with Royal Deeside, Abergeldie became a kind of overflow residence for the Hanoverians and their successors. The Duchess of Kent - Victoria's mother - spent autumns here between...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/s/abergeldie-castle-wp/gfjs-abergeldie-castle-royal-neighbours.mp3 0:06 3 full Abergeldie Castle: Stone Designed for Trouble https://qualla.com/abergeldie-castle/ The oldest part of Abergeldie is pure tower house - a rectangular block of about 35 feet, with a round stair tower 15 feet across tucked into the southwest corner. The walls are four feet thick. That thickness is the architectural signature of an unsettled age, when feuding clans...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/s/abergeldie-castle-wp/gfjs-abergeldie-castle-stone-designed-for-trouble.mp3 0:06 4 full Abergeldie Castle: The Last Laird https://qualla.com/abergeldie-castle/ John Seton Howard Gordon, the 21st Laird, took up residence in 1972 and lived there until the floods. He died in 2020, and with him went a continuous family memory of the place stretching to the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots. The castle is a Category A listed building - the highe...

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