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2 unusual facts about Kingsgate Castle


Kingsgate Castle

The name Kingsgate is related to an incidental landing of Charles II on 30 June 1683 (‘gate’ referring to a cliff-gap) though other English monarchs have also used this cove, such as George II in 1748.

Lennox sisters

As a young woman, she fell ill with a wasting disease--possibly tuberculosis--and her older siblings sent her first to Kingsgate and then to France in a vain effort to recover her strength.



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