Tutbury Castle — dramatically sited on a ridge in Staffordshire, best known as a prison for Mary Queen of Scots — was a Royalist garrison throughout the Civil War. It withstood Parliamentary pressure until 1646. After its surrender, Parliament ordered it thoroughly slighted. The castle had particular symbolic importance as the seat of the Duchy of Lancaster and a historic royal fortress. The ruins — still substantial — stand as a monument to the destructiveness of the Civil War sieges.
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