If you’re looking for something to do with the kids this weekend, then I recommend you bring them along to A Child of the Royal Court at Stirling Castle.

Our fabulously costumed characters will take you back five hundred years to experience what life would have been like for a child living in the Castle. From 11:00am until 4:00pm there will be a host of activities: a school for jesters and spies, a treasure hunt around the Castle, an audience with Mary Queen of Scots, a storytelling session and a demonstration of the weapons used at that time. You can also find out how to be a knight, why boys wore dresses until they were seven and why washing just isn’t any good for you.

Hope to see you there – I’m particularly looking foward to a game of medusa and statues, a Renaissance take on a popular modern game, as the young squires try to prove themselves worthy of becoming knights.

See you there!

Gareth Cheeseman, Events Manager.