Queen Victorias Stone
Loch Maree Hotel has been distinguished by the visit of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, who stayed there from the 12th September to18th September 1877. On the day of her departure, Queen Victoria wrote:- " Got up early and breakfasted at half past eight, and at a quarter to nine we left our nice cosy little hotel at Loch Maree, which I hope I may some day see again."
To commemorate this Royal visit an inscription was carved in a boulder of ‘Torridon Red’ sandstone, which stands opposite the front door of the hotel. The inscription is in Gaelic and is as follows:- ‘Air an dara latha-deug deth mhios meadhonach an foghair, 1877, thainig Ban-Righ Bhictoria a dh’fhaicinn Loch Maruibhe, agus nancriochan mu’n cuairt. Db’fhan i sea oidhche s’an tigh-osda so thall; agus ‘na caomhalachd, dheonaich i g’um biodh a’ chlach so ‘na cuimhneachan airan tlachd a fhuair I ‘na teachd do ‘n chearn so de Ros.’
The following is a literal translation:- "On the twelfth day of the middle of the month of autumn 1877 Queen Victoria came to visit Loch Maree and the country around it. She remained six nights in the opposite hotel and in her kindness, agreed that this stone should be a memorial of the pleasure she experienced in coming to this quarter of Ross."