The Stewart Room

Half right from the passage and opposite is the Stewart Room. This is one of the vaulted chambers under the great hall, built by the 3rd Earl.

Two double portraits on the north wall are of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her son James VI of Scotland, and her parents James V and his wife Mary of Guise-Lorraine. Shown with these is the letter sent by the Queen to the widowed Countess after the death of her husband, the 4th Earl. The case on the right contains two fine contemporary miniatures, one of Queen Mary herself, which may be the 'picture' mentioned in the letter, and the other of Lady Dorothea Stewart, the daughter and heiress of the 5th Earl of Atholl and wife of William Murray, 2nd Earl of Tullibardine. The spade by the window, brought from Ceylon in 1594, was a present to Tullibardine's sister from her future husband Patrick Lyon, afterwards Lord Glamis, the ancestor of our present Queen. among the early Stewart relics are two double-handed swords, the one further from the door being the earl's justiciary sword. Most of the furniture here is sixteenth and seventeenth century; of particular interest is the elm armchair dated 1663 with the initials of Alexander Robertson of Lude. The chittarone, a form of large lute, by Melchior of Verona, 1555, belonged to Charlotte, Duchess of Atholl, and the 'Regal' organ, said to be unique, is dated 1630.