Prince Leopold: Scotland


Figure 1.--Here we see Prince Leopold in 1868 wearing a kilt outfit. He would have been about 14 years old. We do not sure where the portrait was taken, but Balmoral is the most likely place. The lady is one of his older sisters--the Duchess of Argyll, Princess Louise.

Prince Albert had purchased Balmoral in Scotland as a gift for his wife (1846). The annual family trip to Bsalmoral was well established v\before Prince Leopold was born. Victoria and Leopold as he grew older frequently clashed, and the Prince could be sarcastic about her in his private correspondence. Their battles often centred on Scotland. The Queen had dedicated him at birth to her northern kingdom, even naming him Duncam. Leopold grew, however, to detest the cult of Scottishness that she created round her. As he got older, his brothers and sisters were able to occassiinally come up with some excuses to forgo the annual trip to Scoyland, but the younger Leopold always had to go. And he absolutely hated the Queen's laconic servant, John Brown, about whom so much has been written. The Queen inisted tha he accept Brown's brother Archibald as a valet. His bullying behavior to Leopold has been described as little short of cruel. Not only that, but Leopold also could not stand the family's isolated and rather primitive Scottish estate, Balmoral. Leopold did everything he could to avoid the long annual visit, but rarely succeeded. And azt Balmoral, the Queen expected hom to say with her. His brothers were given more feeedom.






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