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Lady LairdsThe ladies challenging tradition by running their own Scottish highland estates

Meet four lady lairds bucking the trend in this traditionally male-dominated world.

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Joanna Macpherson outside Attadale

Joanna Macpherson left her marketing job in London to help her Dad run the estate.

  • Joanna Macpherson outside Attadale
  • Joanna Macpherson with her Dad Ewen and Mum.
  • Tom - head stalker at Attadale estate
  • Watching you, watching me...
  • Pride and joy
  • Cheers
  • A beautiful drop
  • Auchlyne’s first lady – Emma Paterson
  • At home in Auchlyne
  • Winter at Auchlyne – Emma Paterson
  • Mother and daughter
  • A chance to catch up
  • Keeping it in the family
  • Time to relax
  • Traquair House - Scotland's oldest inhabited house
  • Catherine Maxwell-Stuart - Laird of Traquair
  • Inside Traquair

This gallery is from

  • Lady Lairds

    Following four women as they run their Scottish Highland estates and country houses

    BBC One Scotland

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