The Monarch of the Glen is a Scottish comic farce novel written by English-born Scottish author Compton Mackenzie and published in 1941. The first in Mackenzie's Highland Novels series, it depicts the life in the fictional Scottish castle of Glenbogle. The title was a reference to the famous painting of the same name by Edwin Landseer.
The television programme Monarch of the Glen is very loosely based on the novel series.Linklater, Andro. Compton Mackenzie: A Life The Hogarth Press (1992, London)
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