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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
Balmoral Castle, located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, is an intimate site for members of the royal family; it’s the monarch’s summer home, it’s where Prince William and Prince Harry learned ...
In 1887 Queen Victoria again commissioned Morris & Company, this time to another special design for wallpaper at Balmoral Castle, based on the 'VRI' initials of the Queen. [9] During this time, however, Morris was devoting more and more of his time to literary and political work.
Balmoral Castle, re-built for Queen Victoria in the Scots Baronial style. In Scotland there was a revival of the castle in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as part of the wider Gothic Revival movement, as new houses were built and existing buildings remodeled in the Gothic and Scots Baronial styles. [63]
Interior tours of the royal family’s Scottish retreat sold out in less than a day. ... Balmoral Castle has long remained a mystery to the layperson—until now. Charles III is opening the doors ...
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 ...