The Seat of Scottish Power

Billy Connolly as John Brown, 1997; image courtesy of Miramax.

As the opening credits roll during the film Her Majesty, Mrs Brown, a Markino marble bust, which has been tossed over a castle’s ramparts, tumbles through the air toward the ground. When the work of art lands, it shatters into an eruption of shards, the sound exploding like a gunshot. The bust paid homage to a Scottish Highlander named John Brown, a devoted outdoor servant to Prince Albert at Balmoral Castle during the shooting s...