King Charles is now in residence at Balmoral Estate for the annual royal summer tradition, where he'll be joined by the likes of Queen Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales.
There’s a big difference to the annual Balmoral summer holiday for the royal family this year. After the death of the Queen, who passed away at her beloved Aberdeenshire estate last September, things will take a while to get used to for staff this year as for the first time ever, it was King Charles inspecting the troops in the Guard of Honour as he arrived at the castle gates as part of the traditional welcome ceremony that awaits the monarch.
Beloved Scots home The Queen was adamant she would be at Balmoral for the Summer despite her ill health. She left in late July and was expected to take some time out from her royal duties before returning to England in October. The Queen was in the comfy seven-bed Craigowan Lodge, near to Balmoral Castle on the Royal Deeside estate, before she moved to the main house a mile away on August 9.
Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields - Moderator of the Church of Scotland General Assembly - was one of those to visit the Queen during her stay and he was also welcomed by King Charles and Princess Anne for dinner and lunch. He had stayed with the Queen after giving a sermon at Braemar and Crathie Parish Church and said she was 'full of fun' and 'the life and soul of things' before she died.
With Balmoral being one of the Queen's favourite places, he thinks she would have been happy to spend her final days there and recalled a poignant moment. He said: "In conversation with her she took me over to the window and she was looking over her gardens with great pride and affection and I think that that's where she would have wanted to spend her last days and I would think the family are comforted by that.
The family usually attend the weekly church servcice at Crathie Kirk on the estate and they get a privacy they can’t enjoy the rest of the year, allowing them to act like a ‘normal’ family with picnics and barbecues.
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