Royals open Balmoral Castle to extensive public tours for first time

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Those who got £100 or £150 tickets – already sold out – can judge King Charles’s design choices at Aberdeen estate where late queen died

Those who got £100 or £150 tickets – already sold out – can judge King Charles’s design choices at Aberdeen estate where late queen diedShare

And they will be able to judge the additions made by King Charles since he became monarch, including his decision to change the drawing room carpets back to Hunting Stewart tartan – the original style chosen by Queen Victoria. “The public who managed to get a ticket will come away the royal family’s holiday home – that’s exactly what it is, it feels very homely.”

Landseer is best known for creating the lions at the base of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square and was invited to Balmoral every summer to teach Victoria and Albert to paint.

 

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