IN THIS week’s trip down West Fife’s Memory Lane, and following the death of HR Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh, we look at some of the royal visits that have taken place in and around Dunfermline. Dunfermline has a particularly strong royal heritage stretching back almost 1,000 years to the time of King Malcolm and Queen Margaret. King Malcolm himself decreed that Dunfermline should replace Iona as the burial place of Scottish kings and since that time, six Scottish kings, two queens and three princes have been interred in Dunfermline Abbey. In the 16th century, Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of King James V1 of Scotland, who was born in Dunfermline Palace in 1596, went on to become Queen of Bohemia (often referred to as the ‘Winter Queen’). On the demise of the last Stuart monarch in 1714, her grandson succeeded to the British throne as George 1, ushering in the Hanovarian dynasty from which the present royal family is descended.