Editing Traquair House (section)

==Features==

Traquair is a 50-room house. The rooms include "The Drawing Room", containing ancestral portraits and photographs of the current residents; "The Dressing Room", which is decorated to demonstrate life in former times; "The Museum Room", containing a mural dating from 1530, one of the oldest to survive in a secular building in Scotland, as well as charters stamped with the royal seals and signatures of the Scottish Kings; "The King's Room", where [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] stayed in 1566 and which contains some relics belonging to her and the [[Jacobitism|Jacobites]], such as her rosary, crucifix, purse, a silk quilt, and letters bearing her signature; "The Still Room", where breakfast is taken among the 18th-century porcelain that decorates the shelves; and "The Dining Room", one of the last additions to the house, built in the late 17th century. There is a [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] chapel built in 1829, following the [[Catholic emancipation]]. The 18th-century library contains more than 3,000 volumes. Although three lairds made alterations to the house prior to the 17th century, Traquair has changed little, architecturally, since then.

The Bear Gates at the main entrance to the grounds were installed by the fifth Earl, Charles Stuart, in 1738. When they were closed, after [[Charles Edward Stuart]] (Bonnie Prince Charlie) passed through in 1745, the Earl vowed they would never be opened again until a Stuart king returned.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.traquair.co.uk/brief-history-traquair-and-family|title=A Brief History of Traquair and the Family|work=traquair.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Bear Gates of Traquair |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-bear-gates-of-traquair-scottish-borders-scotland |website=Atlas Obscura - Places |publisher=Atlas Obscura |accessdate=20 September 2020}}</ref>