Scott became the first of several writers to note the castle’s oppressive atmosphere. In their absence, Glamis was left in the care of a factor, or estate manager, and it was to this factor that a young Walter Scott applied in 1790 to spend a night in one of its rooms. Glamis has been the family seat of the Strathmore Earls since then, but by the late 18th century it lay largely empty, its owners preferring to live somewhere less drafty, less isolated and less melancholy.
But the present castle was constructed only in the 15th century, around a central tower whose walls are, in places, 16 feet thick. Glamis Castle is mentioned by Shakespeare-Macbeth, that most cursed of characters, was Thane of Glamis-and in 1034 the Scottish King Malcolm II died there, perhaps murdered. Sir Walter Scott, the popular 19th-century novelist, was the first man to tell of the 'secret' of Glamis.
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