| GLENARMCASTLE | The ancestral home of the Earls of Antrim (7,6) |
| BRAEMARCASTLE | Landmark in the Cairngorms National Park which is the ancestral home of clan Farquharson (7,6) |
| GLAMIS | Castle in the heart of Angus, ancestral seat of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne since 1372, childhood home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (6) |
| INVERARAY | Town on the western shore of Loch Fyne that is the ancestral home of the Duke of Argyll (9) |
| BELVOIR | Name of a castle near Grantham that is the ancestral home of the Duke of Rutland (7) |
| WILTON | - House; situated in Wiltshire near the confluence of the rivers Wylye and Nadder, seat of the Earls of Pembroke since its granting by Henry VIII to Sir William Herbert in 1544 (6) |
| SCONEPALACE | Home, near Perth in Scotland, of the Earls of Mansfield since the early 1600s (5,6) |
| GLIN | This county Limerick castle, the ancestral home of the FitzGeralds, was recently put on sale. (4) |
| HOLKHAM | - Hall; seat of the Earls of Leicester in Norfolk, originally designed by William Kent for Thomas Coke in the 1700s (7) |
| HIGHCLERE | Hampshire castle, seat of the Earls of Carnarvon (9) |
| DOWNTON | - Abbey; fictional seat of the Earls of Grantham in Julian Fellowes' drama filmed at Highclere Castle (7) |
| MACLEOD | Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye is the ancestral home of which Scottish clan? (7) |
| BALLINA | Town in County Mayo that is the ancestral home of Joe Biden (7) |
| HIGHCLERECASTLE | Hampshire stately home owned by the Earls of Carnarvon (9,6) |
| EDWARD | Forename of the Earl of Wessex, the youngest of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's four children (6) |
| DUART | ? Castle, ancestral home of the Clan Maclean on the Isle of Mull (5) |
| NANTES | French city on the River Loire that was once ancestral home of the Dukes of Brittany (6) |
| BLENHEIM | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Palace, ancestral home of the Dukes of Marlborough (8) |
| WOBURN | --- Abbey, ancestral home of the dukes of Bedford |
| DARNHALL | Small village south-west of Winsford; it was an ancient hunting ground for the Norman earls of Chester; now it is home to one of the telescopes in the Jodrell Bank network (8) |
