The city has two main roads that everything is described in relationship to. You are either close to 'The Royal Mile' or 'Princes Street.' The Royal Mile is where all the fun was. It starts at the top of the hill at the castle and runs down the hill all the way to Holyroodhouse Castle.
The story of Mary Queen of Scots is closely intertwined with the castle and much talked about in Edinburgh. Her father died when she was a week old, making her the Queen of Scotland. By the time she was 17 she had married and lost a husband, the King of France. She then married a second time to a guy that turned out to be a bad guy and in a fit of jealous rage, he stabbed her male private secretary to death in front of her in the castle. She was in line to the throne of England, but Elizabeth I was having none of that and eventually had her imprisoned in her 20's for 18 years and then beheaded. Many of the pictures in the castle are of Mary or her family.
The last picture is from a restaurant in town called The Elephant House. You can see the view of the castle from the window. JK Rowling sat in this restaurant many days with her baby carriage beside her while writing the first Harry Potter novel.
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