Local Fact of the Day: the Perth castle that held a king prisoner 👑

Huntingtower Castle near Perth once stood at the centre of a royal kidnapping. 👑 In 1582, during the Ruthven Raid, the 1st Earl of Gowrie held the young King James VI against his will at what was then called the Place of Ruthven. Historic Environment Scotland says the king remained a prisoner for ten months. The castle is unusual in another way: it began as two substantial tower houses standing only about three metres apart, later joined to look like one building. Have you visited? Vote Yes or No below. 💙 Sources: Historic Environment Scotland — Huntingtower Castle: History and stories https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit/all/huntingtower-castle/history-and-stories/ Historic Environment Scotland — Huntingtower Castle https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit/all/huntingtower-castle/ Photograph: PaulT (Gunther Tschuch) / Huntingtower Castle · CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perth_and_Kinross_Huntingtower_Castle.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Original photograph shown without edits.