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Balmoral: A Highland paradise, and the much-loved royal family summer escape since 1848

Mary Miers takes a look at a much-loved home of the Royal Family, Balmoral.


This article originally ran in Country Life in 2012.


Balmoral Castle, with its attendant buildings and 50,000 acres of Upper Deeside, represents the ultimate model of a working Highland sporting estate. Uniquely documented in pen, paint and photograph, its role today as the Royal Family’s Scottish holiday home has remained relatively unchanged since 1848, when Queen Victoria and Prince…

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