Royal row over quarry plan

The Queen Mother enjoyed spending time in Glamis Castle

Residents of the Queen Mother's Scottish home town have voiced opposition to plans for a sand and gravel quarry.

The people of Glamis in Angus believe the quarry would lead to 110 lorries a day passing by the castle and ruining their rural idyll.

The Queen Mother, who died on 30 March last year at the age of 101, had strong connections with the area.

Glamis Castle was her childhood home and birthplace of Princess Margaret.

The proposed quarry site is at Powmyre farm.

The future Queen Mother became Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at the age of four when her grandfather died and her father inherited the title of Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

Royal connection

The summers she spent at Glamis fostered a love of Scotland which would play a central role in her life.

She regularly spent three or four months of the year in the country, and during WWI she worked as a nurse when part of Glamis Castle was turned into a convalescent home for soldiers.

Two rooms are named after her - the Queen Mother's Bedroom and the Queen Mother's Sitting Room.

Last month First Minister Jack McConnell launched a campaign to raise £1m for national memorials to the Queen Mother.

The cash will pay for a memorial garden and statue at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh as well as new wrought iron memorial gates for Glamis Castle and smaller tributes around the country.