The name of this room is purely commemorative. It is not the actual room in which King Malcolm II died in 1034 but it may be near the site of the original chamber of the hunting lodge.
The glory of this room is its plasterwork, especially in the ceiling which bears the monograms of the 2nd Earl of Kinghorne and his first wife Lady Margaret Erskine together with medallion heads of Roman characters such as Tarquin and Lucretia. The arms of the 2nd Earl above the fireplace, as with the royal arms in the Drawing Room, have been picked out in full heraldic colours and add a new dimension to the room. The carved wooden chimneypiece is something of a tromp l'oeil since it is partly made from embossed and highly polished leather
The wall hangings with petit point designs were worked in the 17th century by the wife of the 3rd Earl of Strathmore, Lady Helen Middleton, and were originally used as bed hangings for a four-poster bed. Features of this work are the applied floral bands which embellish the vertical edges. Looking closely you can see birds, animals and fruit worked straight into the linen.
The china is part of the great armorial service made for the family in the 18th century. It is hand-painted porcelain of the Ch'ien Lung period (1736-95) . Its decoration is principally heraldic and shows the tressured blue lion on its own (for Lyon), the three bows (for Bowes) and the Bowes shield surmounting the Lyon lion for the 9th Earl who married the Bowes heiress. In 1947 part of this service was given by the 15th Earl to his niece, H.R.H. The Princess Elizabeth, as a wedding present when she married H.RH. Prince Philip. Her Majesty The Queen kindly returned it to Glamis to be restored to the rest of the service.The royal associations continue in the famous Duncan's Hall.
