![]() ![]() A special train would be hired to carry the family, servants, carriages, horses, and eight tons of luggage. ![]() (A spartan touch was that they all shared the single bathroom.) The family moved like highly privileged nomads between their several houses: Eildon Hall, in the Scottish borders Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire Dalkeith House, near Edinburgh Bowhill, outside Selkirk, and Boughton, Northamptonshire. As a child she would watch from a window as her paternal grandparents set off in the ornate Buccleuch state coach for banquets and balls at Buckingham Palace.ĭuring the height of the London season, the house was full, with up to 70 people, including servants, in residence. Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott, third daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch and ninth Duke of Queensberry, was born at Montagu House, the family's London mansion in Whitehall. ![]()
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