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October 14th 1285 saw the marriage of King Alexander III to Yolande de Dreux.
Dates differ somewhat on this, one source states the marriage happened in November, most give October.
This was Alexander’s second marriage, the first was to Queen Margaret, they had three children, two of whom passed away before adulthood, the third, Margaret was married off to Eric II of Norway. Queen Margaret died on 26th February 1275 at Cupar Castle, with no male heir this meant a possible succession crisis, it took ten years for for Alexander to find a suitable bride, but according to the Lanercost Chronicle, he did not spend his decade as a widower alone:
“he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.”
Yolande de Dreux was the daughter of Robert IV, Count of Dreux, and Beatrice, Countess of Montfort. She was born at the family seat at the Chateau of Dreux, close to the border between Normandy and the Ile-de-France. This made her a member of the Capetian dynasty, the largest and oldest of the royal houses in Europe.
And so it was on this day in 1285 that the 44 year old Alexander married 22 year old Yolande, by now Comtesse de Montfort.
The royal couple were married at Jedburgh AbbeyIt appears to have been love at first sight for both of them. Certainly all the Chronicles say that Alexander was quite besotted with his young, beautiful and graceful wife.
Alexander simply could not get enough of the glamorous Yolande, and on March 19, 1286, the king enjoyed a meal with his council in Edinburgh before deciding to surprise Yolande who was at a royal manor at Kinghorn in Fife.
The weather was so bad that the ferryman at Queensferry at first refused to carry the King across the Forth, but eventually he did so and with plenty wine taken and no doubt lust beckoning him onwards, the lure of Yolande proved too much and Alexander III charged onward through Fife.
His body was found the following morning on the shore between Burntisland and Kinghorn Ness near to Pettycur. The cliff down which he fell is known still as King’s Crag.
The history books tell us Yolande was pregnant, some say she miscarried, another chronicle goes into a wee bit more detail saying that the Guardians gathered at Clackmanan on St Catherine’s day 25th November 1286 – to witness the birth, but the child was stillborn, tradition says the baby was buried at Cambuskenneth. After the queen dowager’s pregnancy did not result in a living child, the council begun preparations for Margaret of Norway to be taken to Scotland as their new sovereign.
Queen dowager Yolande remained in Scotland for a couple of years supported by her dower provisions and living possibly at Stirling Castle: it is known that she was still in Scotland at least as late as in 1288. At some point, she returned to France.
In 1292 Yolande de Dreux remarried, this time to Arthur II, Duke of Brittany. They had six children together over the following decade. Arthur died in 1312, while Yolande lived until 1330.
Lots of ifs and buts resulting from this part of our history, but one thing is for sure, with Queen Yolande later having 6 children, there is little doubt that if Alexander hadn’t been so lusty that night she would have bore him a son and the whole timeline of our Royals would have been much different, no Bruce, no Stewarts, no Culloden?
Pics are Alexander's statue above the West door of St Giles in Edinburgh, and Seal of Yolande of Scotland - Duchess of Brittany.
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From sea to summit today. Variety is the spice of Fife 😉
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And you guys can probably guess the other species I currently have in the shop?
I’ll DEFINITELY be adding more species asap though, so don’t worry if your favourite isn’t listed yet, it’s coming!
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Thunderstorms bring flooding and travel disruption
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A foremost incident has been declared in Fife after torrential rain and thunderstorms battered many aspects of central and jap Scotland.
Emergency companies and products acknowledged 28 of us had been rescued after a landslide at Pettycur Bay Vacation Park.
That also resulted in caravans being evacuated and 218 of us spending the night in emergency accommodation.
A different of properties like also been flooded and many colleges within the gap are closed.
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Bigger than 200 of us needed to be evacuated from caravans at Pettycur Bay Vacation Park
It comes as emergency companies and products had been called to a educate derailment shut to Stonehaven. The terror became as soon as raised at about 09: 40.
At First Minister’s Questions, Nicola Sturgeon immediate the Scottish Parliament there were “early reviews of excessive injuries”.
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Smoke is billowing at the scene of the educate derailment
Following heavy rain and thunderstorms in a single day, there are also reviews of properties in North Lanarkshire and Perthshire being flooded.
ScotRail acknowledged lightning strikes had also triggered vitality outages and disruption across the network.
Fife’s Native Resilience Partnership (LRP) became as soon as activated following a different of incidents across the gap.
Avenue closures
Apart from the incident at Pettycur Bay Vacation Park, police, fire and council companies and products are currently coping with flooding disorders in Freuchie, Cairneyhill, Cardenden, Kinglassie, Culross and Lochgelly. Which capacity, a different of boulevard closures are in negate and native diversions are in operation.
A different of of us were evacuated from their properties, and many of faculties and roads are closed. The principle East Flit rail line can be closed resulting from the landslide.
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Flooding at Victoria Neatly being middle in Kirkcaldy saw cars piled on top of every other
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The water became as soon as at its deepest at Victoria Neatly being middle in Kirkcaldy in a single day
Supt Sandy Brodie from Fife’s LRP acknowledged: “I are looking to reassure residents that we are working to acquire companies and products support up and working as hasty as doable and must nonetheless proceed to computer screen the grief. In the mean time, I would inquire of of us no longer to swagger back and forth unless absolutely considerable.”
In a single day flooding at Victoria Neatly being middle automobile park became as soon as an unwelcome surprise for NHS workers coming off night shift.
‘Recovery effort’
An NHS Fife spokesman acknowledged: “Our workers like worked tirelessly in a single day to administer the phenomenal flooding at our Victoria Neatly being middle space.
“A restoration effort is now below method to determine on away the damaged cars.”
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Streets had been flooded in Perth as heavy rain swept across the gap
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Provider acknowledged it became as soon as called to just a few reviews of flooding within the Perthshire space, with many domestic properties affected.
Perth and Kinross Council acknowledged quite a bit of roads within the gap had been nonetheless impassable resulting from flooding.
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Lightning lit up the skies over Edinburgh
Thunderstorms and torrential rain triggered swagger back and forth chaos for folks within the north-east. Many colleges, which had been resulting from originate for the first time in five months, like remained closed.
The depth of the rainfall left the drainage arrangement on many roads in Aberdeenshire unable to cope, leading to basic swimming pools of standing water.
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Stonehaven city centre became as soon as gash off by the flood water
Streets in Stonehaven city centre had been below better than a foot of water, with the householders of a local fish and chip ship asserting they had been “devastated” at being flooded for the fourth time in 9 years.
A different of residents in Aberdeen became trapped by the rising water and needed to be rescued by dinghy.
Several colleges, including three academies in Aberdeenshire are shut.
A Met workplace yellow weather warning for thunderstorms is in negate from 15: 00 to 21: 00.
It warned that some areas had been seemingly to transfer attempting “extra excessive thunderstorms”, nonetheless with “foremost uncertainty in space and timing”.
The warning covers southern, central and northern Scotland.
In the intervening time, Sepa issued flood warnings for Aberdeenshire, Dundee and Angus and Tayside.
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The up up to now Met Arrangement of enterprise warning for Wednesday
The fire carrier acknowledged a different of properties had been flooded in Airdrie, while to boot they attended flooding on the M8 after the twin carriageway became as soon as inundated with water between junctions five and 7.
Police had been advising of us to steer clear of the gap exclusively as diversion routes had been also turning into flooded and impassable.
A Police Scotland spokesman acknowledged no injuries hade been reported.
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A residence in Reddingmuirhead had its roof damaged when lighting struck at about 04: 00
A household residence in Reddingmuirhead shut to Falkirk became as soon as badly damaged after being struck by lightning.
The residence misplaced its roof after catching fire rapidly earlier than 04: 00. Residents speak the household escaped unhurt nonetheless “like misplaced every thing.”
It’s a long way conception a butcher’s enterprise within the nearby village of Brightons became as soon as also hit by lightning spherical the same time.
A processing unit beside the butcher’s store became as soon as destroyed.
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Roads had been flooded spherical Duthie Park in Aberdeen
The thunderstorms also saw:
The fire carrier retain a watch on room in Edinburgh obtain better than 500 calls by the night amid in style reveal and lightning and torrential rain.
All flights resulting from land at Edinburgh Airport are being diverted or delayed.
BT’s incident administration workforce acknowledged a serious outage at an commerce in Edinburgh, triggered by the weather, became as soon as affecting about 100,000 customers’ broadband on BT, EE and Plusnet within town and surrounding space. It became as soon as reported at 06: 30 and engineers had been on space engaged on the difficulty.
And Highland Council acknowledged it became as soon as having “foremost disorders” with internet and network disorders following the thunderstorms. It acknowledged the considerations affecting its sites and residential working access had been resulting from the flooding of the commerce in Edinburgh.
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Torrential rain brought flooding to jap aspects of Scotland
Apart from, Sumburgh Airport became as soon as closed to all arriving and departing plane on Wednesday morning resulting from the harmful weather prerequisites nonetheless remained originate for emergency flights.
In Perth, heavy rain triggered flooding which affected town’s railway position.
ScotRail posted photos of the water overlaying the tracks on social media.
At 09: 25, ScotRail acknowledged there were no trains working on the following routes:
Edinburgh – Fife
Edinburgh – Glasgow Queen Avenue via Falkirk High & Grahamston
Edinburgh/Glasgow – Dunblane
Edinburgh – West Calder
Aberdeen – Edinburgh/Glasgow
Aberdeen – Dyce
Inverness – Perth
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Recipe feature - White Chocolate Cheesecake
Recipe feature – White Chocolate Cheesecake
With Christmas fast approaching, here is an easy to make at home festive dessert which still has the wow factor, from James Mackay Head Chef at the newly refurbished Horizons restaurant at The Bay Hotel, Pettycur, Kinghorn.
Enjoy a range of festive dining opportunities looking out from Horizons over the Firth of Forth!
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On March 19th 1286 Alexander III fell off his horse and ended up dead at the bottom of a cliff in Fife, all because he wanted his leg over.
With a post like this I find it difficult to keep it fresh, many of you will have seen previous posts about Alexander and how this started, what began as "The Great Cause" and turned into a war lasting decades when old Longshanks, "The Hammer of the Scots" tried and failed to make Scotland his own.
Alexander is considered to have been a good King, he settled the issue of the Hebrides that his father failed to do, getting a result at The Battle of Largs and ending the Norsemen's overlording of the Islands, he also gave us our national "Flower" the thistle, agaun this was at Largs, as, allegedly, King Haakon's army tried to take our Alexander's army by surprise but one of Haakon's men unfortunately stood on one of these spiny little defenders and shrieked out in pain, alerting the Clansmen of the advancing Norsemen.
Alexander was crowned in 1249, he was around 8 year old, two years later he was married off to Margaret, an English princess, her big brother was Edward, the same one who tried to take advantage of Scotland's misfortune years later. Alexander's father in law, Henry III apparently asked the young Alexander to pay homage to him when he was getting married at at York Minster, either young Alexander was very wise for his age, or he had very good advisers for he refused to bow to the English King.
That's the main stuff out of the way, as I said before, Alexander is considered to have been a good, successful reign but I did a wee bit digging and found out about a Chronicle from Lanercost Priory in Cumberland, not far from Carlisle and the Debatable lands, it's a rich source for Scottish affairs of the late 13th century. For some reason the chronicler had no good opinion of oor Alexander III, they depict the king as indulging in gluttony and mild blasphemy, then insisting under the worst possible circumstances on setting off to see his new bride Yoleta (Yolande), thus presumably also being motivated by lust, which I jokingly pointed out at the start of this post To later Scots the loss of their king was seen as the dreadful accident which ushered in the wars of independence. His tragic end was seen as the close of an almost mythical golden age for Scotland. The chronicler seems to indicate that it was all deserved because poor "Yoleta" was too flighty to stay as a nun. She had been brought up in a convent in France.
Anyway Alexander died and(most) historians agree that with his death so ended a golden age for Scotland, the next 30 years or so we saw the likes of The Bruce, The Good Sir James, William Wallace and The Comyns dominate our history, exciting times for us to look back on, but not the best of times to be an ordinary Scot.
It was commented on my last post regarding Alexanders demise that he was perhaps assassinated. I n my opinion I ind this highly unlikely. The reasons? Well he was a very successful monarch and Scotland was thriving at the time of his death, both he and his father seemed to have been well respected, I mean you can never rule it out, but in all the time I have been compiling posts like this I have found no evidence at all that supports the theory at all.
Pics are a statue at t Giles in Edinburgh and the Alexander III Monument, Pettycur. near Kinghorn in Fife.
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'Major incident' declared in Fife after thunderstorms
‘Major incident’ declared in Fife after thunderstorms
Media captionFootage posted on social media showed flooded streets following torrential downpours
A major incident has been declared in Fife after torrential rain and thunderstorms battered many parts of central and eastern Scotland.
Emergency services said 28 people were rescued after a landslide at Pettycur Bay Holiday Park.
That also resulted in caravans being evacuated and 218…
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Bridge Closure Stops Driver Carrying Vacation Home
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Mr. Brooks waits at South Queensferry for the bridge to open.
A truck driver transporting a vacation home to a Fife trailer site is stuck on one side of the Queensferry Crossing after it has closed.
Stephen Brooks takes the prefabricated building to Pettycur Bay Holiday Park in Kinghorn.
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After days of greyness, a day of blinding sunshine can come as quite a shock. You think to yourself...."Why didn't I bring my sunglasses?", before remembering that it's been so long since you used them you wouldn't have been able to find them even if you wanted to ;-)
Today was such a day, in the company of Dalgety Bay Ramblers for their 20th anniversary celebrations. Various walks were laid on for different abilities, and I plumped for a stroll along the coastal path between Aberdour and Pettycur because....oddly.....that is a stretch of the coastal path I'd not done before. It was a leisurely walk with time to kill, and the half hour or so spent sitting drinking coffee at Burntisland Beach was utterly sublime in that sunshine :)
Dalgety Bay Ramblers have walks every weekend, mostly within an hour or so's distance. Newcomers most welcome, and if you want to give 'em a go, upcoming walks include Townhill Loch, Almondell Country Park, Blairadam Forest and the Water of Leith. Details on the Ramblers website :) https://www.ramblers.org.uk/…/gr…/dalgety-bay--district.aspx
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Beautiful for shore! The 61 best beaches in Scotland for 2019 revealed in annual awards
Beautiful for shore! The 61 best beaches in Scotland for 2019 revealed in annual awards
Environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful has named the award winners
Beaches winning the accolade are judged to have met a range of criteria
These include safety, access and facilities, and cleanliness
In total, 54 beaches have held an award for five or more years in a row
By Ted Thornhill, Mailonline Travel Editor and Press Association
Published: 06:43 EDT, 31 May 2019 | Updated: 07:01 EDT, 31 May 2019
Sixty-one beaches across Scotland have been given awards in recognition of their high standards for visitors.
Environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful named the locations that have achieved Scottish Beach Award status for 2019 ahead of the bathing season getting underway on Saturday.
Beaches winning the accolade are judged to have met a range of criteria, including on safety, access and facilities, and cleanliness.
Sixty-one beaches across Scotland have been given awards in recognition of their high standards for visitors. Pictured is Kirkcaldy Pathhead Sands beach in Fife, which is one of the award winners
Beaches winning the Beach Award accolade are judged to have met a range of criteria, including on safety, access and facilities, and cleanliness. Pictured is gong recipient Loch Morlich beach in Highland
In total, 54 beaches have held an award for five or more years in a row. Pictured is Elie Harbour beach in Fife, which is one of the 61 beaches recognised this year
REVEALED: SCOTLAND’S BEST BEACHES FOR 2019
Aberdeen Ballroom Beach Aberdeen
Balmedie Beach Aberdeenshire
Collieston Aberdeenshire
Cruden Bay Aberdeenshire
Fraserburgh Tigerhill Aberdeenshire
Fraserburgh Waters of Philorth Aberdeenshire
Inverboyndie Beach Aberdeenshire
Peterhead Lido Aberdeenshire
Stonehaven Beach Aberdeenshire
Montrose Seafront Angus
Carnoustie Angus
Arbroath Angus
Lunan Bay Angus
Monifieth Angus
East Haven Angus
Broughty Ferry Dundee City
Belhaven Bay East Lothian
Gullane Bents East Lothian
Longniddry Gosford Bay East Lothian
North Berwick Milsey Bay East Lothian
North Berwick West Beach East Lothian
Longniddry No 1 and 2 (Seton Sands) East Lothian
Yellowcraig East Lothian
Aberdour Silversands Fife
Anstruther Billowness Fife
Burntisland Beach Fife
Crail Roome Bay Fife
Elie Harbour Fife
Elie Ruby Bay Fife
Kingsbarns Beach Fife
Kinghorn and Pettycur Bay Fife
Kirkcaldy Seafield Fife
Leven East Fife
St Andrews East Sands Fife
St Andrews West Sands Fife
Aberdour Black Sands Fife
Kirkcaldy Pathhead Sands Fife
Achmelvich Bay Highland
Brora Beach Highland
Dornoch Beach Highland
Embo Highland
Golspie Beach Highland
Portmahomack Highland
Sango Sands Highland
Shandwick Bay Highland
Strathy Bay Highland
Nairn Central Highland
Loch Morlich Highland
Melvich Beach Highland
Irvine North Ayrshire
Newton Beach Millport North Ayrshire
Coldingham Scottish Borders
St Ninians Isle Shetland
Sands of Breckon Shetland
Tresta Shetland
West Voe Shetland
West Sandwick Shetland
Ayr South South Ayrshire
Troon South Ayrshire
Maidens South Ayrshire
Prestwick South Ayrshire
This year sees many long-standing award participants return, including Gullane Bents in East Lothian and St Andrews West Sands in Fife, both of which are celebrating 27 consecutive years as award winners.
In total, 54 beaches have held an award for five or more years in a row.
Irvine Beach – Front Shore in North Ayrshire is also welcomed back on to the list for the first time in a decade.
Fife retains its title as the region with the most awards, being home to 14 winning beaches.
The Highlands was second, with 12 successful award winners.
Pictured is award-winner Irvine beach in North Ayrshire, which Keep Scotland Beautiful describes as ‘a long stretch of golden sand sheltered by flowing dunes’
Kinghorn and Pettycur Bay beach in Fife, pictured, makes the list. It is described as ‘a pleasant sandy beach located on the west side of Kinghorn… a haven of peace and tranquillity’
Keep Scotland Beautiful chief executive Derek Robertson said: ‘With the country set to mark 2020 as Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters, it is only right that we celebrate the achievements of communities, organisations and local authorities across the country in making sure that our beaches provide visitors with the fantastic shoreline experience that they deserve.
‘Scotland’s coastlines and waters attract thousands of visitors every year. These beach users can be assured that where they see the Scottish Beach Award flag they will have the experience they are looking for: a clean beach, excellent amenities and signposting about the local area, as well as information about water quality.’
Malcolm Roughead, chief executive of tourism body VisitScotland, said: ‘Thanks to Keep Scotland Beautiful and the passion from a range of organisations, local authorities and individuals to achieve recognition through the Scottish Beach Awards – both visitors and locals can enjoy a wide range of spectacular environmentally considerate beach settings across the country.’
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This beautiful leviathan spent all day yesterday feeding and swimming and even breaching off the coast of Edinburgh in the Firth of Forth.
Scotland you beautiful land <3
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