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2. Balmoral Castle - Wikipedia

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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 .

3. Inside the Royal Family's Favorite Summer Getaway, Balmoral ...

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   The Interior. In Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, he writes about the inside of Balmoral. "Balmoral. Closing my eyes, I can see the main entrance, the paneled front windows, the wide portico and ...

4. Everything You Need to Know About Balmoral Castle - AOL

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   Design and Architecture of Balmoral Castle. The castle was designed by Scottish architects John and William Smith. The father-son team drew up the plans around 1852, and the Scottish baronial and ...

5. Estate houses in Scotland - Wikipedia

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   Linlithgow Palace, the first building to bear that title in Scotland, extensively rebuilt along Renaissance principles from the fifteenth century.. The origins of private estate houses in Scotland are in the extensive building and rebuilding of royal palaces that probably began under James III (r. 1460–88), accelerated under James IV (r. 1488–1513), and reached its peak under James V (r ...

6. Balmoral Castle Will Open to the Public for the First Time - AOL

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   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 ...

7. Scottish baronial architecture - Wikipedia

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   The sheriff court in Greenock (1869) is a typical Scottish Baronial building with crow-stepped gables and corbelled corner turrets.. Scottish baronial or Scots baronial is an architectural style of 19th-century Gothic Revival which revived the forms and ornaments of historical architecture of Scotland in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.