Eleanor Sheffield Phelps:
A Pictorial Travelogue

Mary of Guise died there and there is a very small chapel belonging to Margaret. The Black Watch is stationed in the Castle now & they are most enchanting people. After we left the Castle we went to St.Giles'. Outside on the pavement is the Heart of Midlothian a "hollow" heart of red stone in the pavement. The mew Chapel of the Knights of the Thistle has just been opened & is good but it needs toning down. Then past John Knox's house & other old houses of the nobles to Holyrood Palace. The exterior is Georgian & quite distressingly modern but inside it is very interesting. First we went through to the Chapel which is under repair & then up some stairs to Mary's rooms. Right by the door of her ante-chamber is a brass plate showing where Darnley murdered Rizzio. Then came her bedroom & two tiny cupboard like rooms, her dressing room & her private supper room. Underneath were Darnley's apartments joined to Mary's by a secret stairway & similar to hers, only lighter & pleasanter. Opening out of his rooms was a long hall filled with imaginary (?) portraits of the Scottish Kings, remarkable only