Clan Douglas - Threave Castle - Photo Print Size:30"x20" and this castle on the

and this castle on the loch shore is part of that story

Connect to the history of Clan Graham

By the mid-eighteenth century they were wealthy enough to commission the most fashionable portrait painters in Europe

Mary Queen of Scots

windswept coastline that shaped a family known for holding on in one of Scotland's most exposed and demanding landscapes

Clan Douglas - Threave Castle - Photo Print Size:30"x20" and this castle on thePhotographer Aly Wight took this photograph of Threave Castle, the tower house that Archibald the Grim, third Earl of Douglas, built on an island in the River Dee in the late fourteenth century. It became the strongest Black Douglas fortress in Galloway, and the setting for some of the most violent moments in that family's story. In 1452 a Douglas had a man murdered here whose release the king had personally requested. James II besieged Threave with