Throughout history, islands have been sought outas refuges from the world, places of peace...

Throughout history, islands have been sought out
as refuges from the world, places of peace and quiet
and contemplation. An island in a loch
is even more special, a form of double isolation
from the everyday. For such a small island, there's a lot of history
packed into Inchmahome, and it has been visited
by the great and the good down the centuries. Robert the Bruce, no less, visited, and so, too,
did many of his Stuart descendants including Mary Queen of Scots. And when she came here, she was just a little princess
and only four years of age