Invercauld House
Invercauld House near Braemar in Aberdeenshire is the seat of the Farquharson family and one of the principal private estates of Royal Deeside, the house dating in its present form from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with Farquharson family connections to the area extending back to the medieval period. The Farquharsons had strong Jacobite sympathies through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The estate encompasses ancient Caledonian pine forest remnants, among the most significant surviving fragments of the original Highland forest that once covered much of the Scottish Highlands. These ancient pinewoods support red squirrel, crested tit, capercaillie and the full Caledonian forest wildlife suite. The Braemar area, close to Balmoral Royal Estate, is one of the most celebrated landscapes in Scotland.