Beaufort Castle, Scotland

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Beaufort Castle, under construction in the late 1870s. The 15th Lord Lovat stands by.

Beaufort Castle is a castle in northern Scotland, near Beauly. It is the traditional seat of the chiefs of the Clan Fraser. The castle sits on the site of several previous castles, including Castle Dounie, which was burned to the ground by Government forces shortly after Culloden, at the end of The '45, as Simon the Fox had been a Jacobite leader. There is record of previous fortifications on the site, for example those of the Bissets, whom the Lovats inherited the lands from, and possibly older.

The castle was sold in 1994 to Stagecoach director Ann Gloag by the then-Lord Lovat, to repay in part debts incurred by his son, Simon Augustine Fraser.^{[citation needed]}