Qualla: Seton Palace https://qualla.com/seton-palace en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:23 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/y/seton-palace-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Seton Palace https://qualla.com/seton-palace Seton Palace: Introduction https://qualla.com/seton-palace/ Photo credit Adriaen van de Venne, Public domain. In February 1567, days after the murder of her husband Lord Darnley at Kirk o' Field in Edinburgh, Mary, Queen of Scots rode to Seton Palace and played golf. Or so the articles drawn up against her later alleged. The accusation - whether scandal or fact - tells you what Seton was. It was the place she went when she needed to be somewhere else. She had spent her honeymoon there with Darnley two years earlier. She came back after his death. Whatever Seton Palace witnessed in those months ended the rule of the Stuart queen and changed the course of Scottish history.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/y/seton-palace-wp/gcvy-seton-palace-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Seton Palace: A Dainty Seat Placed by Sea https://qualla.com/seton-palace/ Photo credit Adriaen van de Venne, Public domain. The palace stood a few miles southeast of Edinburgh near Prestonpans, looking out over the Firth of Forth. George, 4th Lord Seton erected it in the 15th century, and the family extended it across generations. George Seton, 5th Lord Seton, who died in 1513, completed the jemmay ho...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/y/seton-palace-wp/gcvy-seton-palace-a-dainty-seat-placed-by-sea.mp3 0:06 2 full Seton Palace: Mary's Refuge https://qualla.com/seton-palace/ Photo credit Adriaen van de Venne, Public domain. Mary of Guise stayed at Seton for Christmas 1559. Her daughter Mary, Queen of Scots became a frequent visitor in the early 1560s. In January 1562, New Year's Day was marked at Seton with a poem by Alexander Scott - Ane New Yeir Gift to Quene Mary - filled with advice for princes ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/y/seton-palace-wp/gcvy-seton-palace-marys-refuge.mp3 0:06 3 full Seton Palace: Hall of Heraldry https://qualla.com/seton-palace/ Photo credit Adriaen van de Venne, Public domain. The palace reached its peak in the 17th century. Alexander Nisbet described what was inside. Above the Great Hall fireplace the Seton heraldry was quartered with the arms of the Earl of Buchan, encircled with a collar Nisbet identified as representing the Order of the Thistle. Th...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/y/seton-palace-wp/gcvy-seton-palace-hall-of-heraldry.mp3 0:06 4 full Seton Palace: Lost After 1715 https://qualla.com/seton-palace/ Photo credit Adriaen van de Venne, Public domain. The Setons backed the wrong side. The 5th Earl of Winton was among the Jacobites attainted after the 1715 rising; the family lost everything. The palace was burned during the rising and by 1780 it was described as being in ruins. In 1789 it was demolished. Lt Col Alexander Macken...

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