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Balmoral Castle (/ b æ l ˈ m ɒr əl /) is a large estate house in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and a residence of the British royal family. It is near the village of Crathie , 9 miles (14 km) west of Ballater and 50 miles (80 km) west of Aberdeen .
Balmoral Castle: Aberdeenshire, Scotland Private The King and Queen: August and September, inherited from Elizabeth II. Birkhall: Balmoral Estate, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Previously owned by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; located on the estate of Balmoral Castle. Charles inherited the home when his grandmother died in 2002.
Balmoral Castle. Balmoral is a private property located in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert purchased it in 1852, and for many years, it served as Queen ...
The King, 75, privately owns Balmoral Castle in Scotland and its 50,000-acre estate, known as the British royal family's summer escape for generations and where Queen Elizabeth died in 2022.
Balmoral Castle and its 50,000-acre estate has been privately owned by the royal family since 1845 and is cherished up to the present day as a late-summer getaway for the family. "To me, Balmoral ...
Unlike the royal palaces owned by the Crown, such as Buckingham Palace, Holyrood Palace and Windsor Castle, Sandringham (along with Balmoral Castle in Scotland) is owned personally by the monarch. In 2022, following the Queen's death, Sandringham passed to her son and heir Charles III.
In 1852, Prince Albert purchased Balmoral as a gift for his wife, Queen Victoria. The original building was deemed too small, and the royals built a new castle (the one that exists today), and ...
The property was built in 1715. [3] It was acquired from the Gordon family (owners of the Abergeldie Estate) who had acquired it from the Farquharsone family.Birkhall was acquired by Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, as part of the Balmoral Castle estate in 1849 and given to his eldest son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.