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BALMORAL OPENS ITS DOORS

In a historic move, His Majesty King Charles III has invited guests inside the Royal Family’s Scottish holiday home for the first time since Queen Victoria and Prince Albert bought the estate and laid the foundation stone in 1853, after having fallen in love with it a few years before.

This summer will see the first lucky visitors join guided tours that will go through “several beautiful rooms within Balmoral Castle.” Previously,

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