King Charles submits plans to turn part of Queen's 'favourite' royal home into wedding venue

Queen Elizabeth II's favourite royal residence was the spot wherever she spent overmuch of her leisure clip with her children and grandchildren, but present a portion of it whitethorn beryllium transformed into a wedding venue

King Charles is acceptable to springiness Queen Elizabeth II's "favourite" Royal retreat a large makeover, with plans submitted to alteration portion of the Balmoral Estate into an exclusive wedding venue. Soon, members of the nationalist could beryllium saying 'I do' successful the Queen's Building, specified steps from the iconic castle itself.

Spanning a immense 50,000 acres, Balmoral is much than conscionable a stately home; it's a afloat operational property implicit with grouse moors, forests, and farmland. Unlike England, Scotland's laid-back attack to wedding locations means venues don't necessitate a licence, arsenic the celebrant carries this instead.

The proposal, present with Aberdeenshire Council, seeks to repurpose the gathering for "weddings, dinners, meetings and different events", promising that immoderate euphony volition beryllium kept astatine a "low level" to debar disturbances.

Continuing a long-standing Royal tradition, King Charles spends his summertime breaks astatine Balmoral, which perches connected the River Dee's borderline and boasts an awesome 52 bedrooms, alongside galore reception rooms utilized by the monarch for authoritative engagements.

Despite the grandeur of the main castle, King Charles and Queen Camilla favour residing astatine the neighbouring Birkhall estate, erstwhile a cherished residence of the Queen Mother. The precocious Queen was known to sojourn Balmoral Castle each summertime for week-long holidays until her death.

Her stays would commence successful precocious July astatine Craigowan Lodge earlier moving into the castle erstwhile it closed to visitors successful August. The Balmoral grounds held a peculiar spot successful the precocious Queen's bosom arsenic Prince Philip projected to her determination successful the summertime of 1946, reports the Express.

It was besides the peaceful determination wherever Queen Elizabeth II passed distant connected September 8, 2022, according to a memo from her backstage secretary, Sir Edward Young. In 2022, Queen Elizabeth chose to enactment astatine Balmoral to name the caller premier minister, Liz Truss, alternatively than travelling to Buckingham Palace successful London.

Marking 25 years of the Scottish Parliament successful September, King Charles suggested that his parent "chose" to walk her past moments astatine Balmoral, contempt imaginable logistical difficulties if she were to walk distant successful the Highlands. The King stated: "My precocious parent particularly treasured the clip spent astatine Balmoral, and it was there, successful the astir beloved of places, wherever she chose to walk her last days."

Balmoral has been a Royal residence since 1852, erstwhile Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband, purchased the property and its archetypal castle. The existing Balmoral Castle was commissioned aft the location astatine the clip was considered excessively small.