An hour north of Inverness, in the thick of the Scottish Highlands, Skibo Castle sprawls over 8,000 acres of moors and woodland. The castle isn’t visible from public roads—it’s surrounded by enough of ...

Skibo Castle, the lavish private golf club and sporting retreat near Dornoch, Scotland -- once part of the private club empire of Peter de Savary and probably best known for hosting Madonna's 2000 ...

There are clubs that grant exclusive access to ritzy new spas, world-class golf courses, or selections of rare wine varietals—and then there’s the Carnegie Club. For the past two decades, this private ...

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DORNOCH, Scotland – The team of Rex Hoggard and Jay Coffin took it on the chin Saturday against a pair of wily British veterans at the Carnegie Club at Skibo Castle. It was Round 1 of the Writers Cup ...

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In 1898 the Scottish-born Pittsburgh steel baron bought a 7,500-acre, millennium-old estate on the banks of the Dornoch Firth in Sutherland, about 30 miles north of Inverness, in the northern Scottish ...

THE exclusive Highland estate of Skibo Castle has been bought over by a small group of members who say they plan to take the famous hideaway for the rich and famous to an even higher level, it was ...

"Ah. We have another couple here from Oregon, we do. Would we prefer a Scotch over the sloe gin, then?" We would. We also would prefer to be shown to our room, having just made the long trek from ...

silvery-haired cross between Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Robert Louis Stevenson. If you had to find a mythical laird for Scotland's only Disneyland for adults, then central casting would almost ...

THE owner of Skibo Castle, where Madonna was married, is concerned that his famous guests could soon be looking at a wind farm, rather than "mountains and heather". Peter de Savary said yesterday he ...

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