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=== Inveraray Castle ===
{{Main Article|Inveraray Castle}}

[[File:Inveraray Castle - panoramio (1).jpg|thumb|left|Inveraray Castle]]
The first Inveraray Castle was built around 1432 and by 1457 was the home of Colin, second Lord Campbell when he became first Earl of Argyll. 

In 1744 the [[third Duke of Argyll]] decided to demolish the existing castle and start from scratch with a new building. The castle was 40 years in construction, and the work was largely supervised by the Adam family, still renowned to this day as gifted architects and designers. The end product was not a castle in the traditional sense, but a classic Georgian [[mansion]] house on a grand scale, [[Inveraray Castle]].

Over the years the castle has played host to numerous luminaries; [[Queen Victoria]] visited it in 1847,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lindsay, I.G. & Cosh, M. |title=Inveraray and the Dukes of Argyll |date=1973 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=0852241879}}</ref> and the Royal connection was further cemented when her daughter, [[Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll|Princess Louise]], married the heir to the Campbell chieftainship,[[John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll| the Marquess of Lorne]], in 1871,<ref name="Inveraray">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/interiorsandshopping/8635073/Inveraray-Castle-home-to-the-Duke-of-Argyll.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714204018/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/interiorsandshopping/8635073/Inveraray-Castle-home-to-the-Duke-of-Argyll.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 July 2011 |title=Inveraray Castle: home to the Duke of Argyll |date=14 July 2011 |publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |author=Matthew Dennison}}</ref> illustrating the elevated position of the Argyll family in the social order of the times.
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