Stock Photo - Royal Palace, Crown Square, Edinburgh Castle The Royal Palace, the part of the castle that the sovereign resided, dominates Crown Square The name Crown Square came after Sir Walter Scott´s discovery of the Scottish Crown and other Royal Regalia in the Royal Palace in 1818 Previously it was known as the Grand Parade and before that the Palace Yard It was in this Palace that King James VI of Scotland and I of England was born in 1566 The King revisited the Castle in 1617 as part of his Golden Jubilee celebrations and a lot of the features of the current building date from then

Stock Photo: Royal Palace, Crown Square, Edinburgh Castle  The Royal Palace, the part of the castle that the sovereign resided, dominates Crown Square  The name Crown Square.