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Balmoral Castle (/ bælˈmɒrəl /) 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. The estate and its original castle were bought from the Farquharson family in 1852 by Prince Albert, the ...
White Lodge. Richmond. Princess Amelia of Great Britain; George III and Queen Charlotte; Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh; Albert Edward, Prince of Wales; Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge and family; Prince Albert, Duke of York and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (c. 1740–1923) York House, St James's Palace.
The Palace of Holyroodhouse (/ ˈ h ɒ l ɪ r uː d / or / ˈ h oʊ l ɪ r uː d /), [1] commonly known as Holyrood Palace, is the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland.Located at the bottom of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, at the opposite end to Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood has served as the principal royal residence in Scotland since the 16th century, and is a setting for state ...
Buckingham Palace is synonymous with the British royal family, but there are a number of lesser-known residences the royals own, too. These sites range from private homes to Crown-owned properties ...
Sandringham House. Sandringham House is a country house in the parish of Sandringham, Norfolk, England. It is one of the royal residences of Charles III, whose grandfather, George VI, and great-grandfather, George V, both died there. The house stands in a 20,000-acre (8,100 ha) estate in the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The Crown Estate is a collection of lands and holdings in the United Kingdom belonging to the British monarch as a corporation sole, making it "the sovereign's public estate", which is neither government property nor part of the monarch's private estate. [3][4][5][6] The Crown Estate in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland is managed by the ...
Official Royal Residences: St. James's Palace – the most senior royal residence in London. It was a principal residence of the monarch from 1702 until 1837. It is the official London residence of some members of the royal family. Buckingham Palace – the monarch's principal London residence since 1837. [1]
Mentmore Towers, historically known simply as "Mentmore", is a 19th-century English country house built between 1852 and 1854 for the Rothschild family in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. Sir Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, [ 1 ][ 2 ] designed the building in the 19th-century revival of late 16th and early 17th ...