The Queen could be paying a ‘£1.5million holiday bill’ with plans to head off to Balmoral later this summer By Richard Eden for The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 3 July 2020 | Updated: 09:45 BST, 4 July 2020 The Queen is known for her frugality, whether storing corn flakes in Tupperware containers, turning on … Read more
The Queen and Prince Philip are expected to spend the summer at Balmoral after it was feared that guidelines on moving between England and Scotland might scupper the annual stay. The monarch, 94, and her husband, 99, are reportedly set to fly to the castle, in the Scottish highlands, where they may stay for up … Read more
Travelling up Glen Muick on the Balmoral estate in the Highlands is to follow in Queen Victoria’s footsteps. In my time as a royal historian I’ve worked on exhibitions, television programmes and, most recently, a new biography of Victoria. I know how much she cherished this bleak landscape, but even I was shocked to find … Read more
Queen wins battle with environmental protestors to build two-megawatt hydroelectric turbine on her 50,000-acre Balmoral estate Her Majesty has wanted to build a two-megawatt generator on the River Muick The hydroelectric turbine will generate £650,000’s worth of power a year The generator will power her 50,000-acre Balmoral estate in Scotland Environmentalists feared it would be … Read more
The Queen and Prince Philip are living together for the first time in two years because of the coronavirus lockdown while Prince Charles only has red squirrels for company in his Balmoral isolation after testing positive Since showing mild symptoms of Covid-19, Prince Charles is keeping himself occupied with his red squirrel conservation work in Balmoral, … Read more
Couple who ‘just wanted to be married’ ignored social distancing rules to wed at Balmoral Beach before cops shut it down when guests exceeded 500 people A Sydney couple got married at Balmoral Beach amid the coronavirus pandemic Anders and Sophie Ridley-Smith had planned a church wedding for next month The couple quickly changed their plans as … Read more
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ‘accept an invitation from the Queen to join her at Balmoral this summer’ – and could bring Baby Archie along for the first time Archie Mountbatten-Windsor may make his first trip to Queen’s Scottish retreat His absence from royal life is understood to have made The Queen ‘very sad’ Last year … Read more