Eildon Hall (Scottish Borders)

She describes it as a "Georgian house with Victorian additions, made from the local coral pink sandstone,"[1] and "standing 600 feet above sea level.

[3] "Perhaps because Eildon was the first grown-up home of aspiring Dukes of Buccleuch," wrote Princess Alice, "and has therefore always been a young family's house, it has a charmingly domestic air.

When Princess Alice was growing up, Eildon Hall part of the succession of houses where the family lived throughout the year.

[6][7][8] Extensions were designed by the famous Scottish architect William Burn[6] for the fifth Duke of Buccleuch, who bought the house in 1838[2] and wanted to use it as a base during the fox hunting season.

[10] Princess Alice's memoirs, which she published in 1983, further the impression of Eildon Hall was a base for the fox hunting season.

Princess Alice wrote: "Two days a week Uncle Henry and Cospatrick disappeared into Edinburgh to do something at a bank and thought themselves very hard worked; the rest of their time was spent hunting, shooting or fishing.

[15] Sir Walter Scott lived nearby at Abbotsford House and his novel The Bride of Lammermoor is set in the Lammermuir Hills.