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Balmoral and Castle
Balmoral Castle is a large estate house in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
It was demolished, and the current Balmoral Castle was completed in 1856.
Balmoral Castle.
Balmoral Castle, painted by Queen Victoria in 1854 during its construction
Balmoral Castle is built from granite quarried at Invergelder on the estate, and comprises two main blocks, each arranged around a courtyard.
Edward VII relaxing at Balmoral Castle, photographed by his wife, Alexandra
North-west corner of Balmoral Castle
Craigowan Lodge is used regularly by the Queen's friends and family, and has also been used by the Queen while Balmoral Castle is being prepared.
The 1997 film Mrs. Brown was also based on events at Balmoral, although in both films substitute locations were used: Blairquhan Castle in The Queen ; and Duns Castle in Mrs Brown.
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* Balmoral Castle, a residence of Queen Elizabeth II in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
The fashion for all things Scottish was maintained by Queen Victoria, who helped secure the identity of Scotland as a tourist resort, with Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire becoming a major royal residence from 1852.
Harry and William were staying with their father at Balmoral Castle at the time, and the Prince of Wales waited until early the following morning to tell his sons about their mother's death.
He was invited to Balmoral Castle, where King Edward VII created him a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order ( CVO ).
At the outbreak of World War II, Margaret and her sister were at Birkhall, on the Balmoral Castle estate, where they stayed until Christmas 1939 enduring nights so cold that drinking water in carafes by their bedside froze.
* Lochnagar, a mountain near the Royal Castle of Balmoral in the area of Glen Muick
Since 1993, HM The Queen's personal estate ( e. g. shareholdings, personal jewellery, Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle ) will be subject to Inheritance Tax, though bequests from Sovereign to Sovereign are exempt.
Edward VII relaxing at Balmoral Castle, photographed by his wife, Alexandra

Balmoral and was
Balmoral has been one of the residences of the British Royal Family since 1852, when it was purchased by Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert.
A house at Balmoral was built by Sir William Drummond in 1390.
The Farquharsons were Jacobite sympathisers, and James Farquharson of Balmoral was involved in both the 1715 and 1745 rebellions, and was wounded at the Battle of Falkirk in 1746.
In February 1848 it was decided that Prince Albert would acquire the remaining part of the lease on Balmoral, together with its furniture and staff, and the couple arrived for their first visit on 8 September 1848.
Ownership of Balmoral, along with Sandringham House in Norfolk, was inherited by Edward VIII on his accession in 1936.
A financial settlement was devised, under which Balmoral and Sandringham passed to his brother, George VI.
The Queen was in residence at Balmoral at the time of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.
Meanwhile, in 1954, he began working with Tony Hancock in BBC radio's Hancock's Half Hour, playing a character with his own name ( but having the invented middle name Balmoral ), who was a petty criminal who would usually manage to con Hancock.
Her twenty-first birthday party was held at Balmoral in August 1951.
George VI was also forced to buy from Edward the royal residences of Balmoral Castle and Sandringham House, as these were private properties and did not pass to George VI automatically.
Brown was born in Crathie, Aberdeenshire, to John Brown and Margaret Leys, and went to work as an outdoor servant ( in Scots ghillie or gillie ) at Balmoral Castle, which Queen Victoria and Prince Albert leased in February 1848 and purchased outright in November 1851.
* In 2008 it was reported that an electric samovar presented to Elizabeth II in about 1968 by a Soviet aerobatic team was removed from Balmoral Castle as a security precaution amid fears that its wiring could contain a listening device.
Kreviazuk was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and attended Balmoral Hall School for Girls.
For example, on 30 September 1888, when Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes were murdered, Albert Victor was at Balmoral, the royal retreat in Scotland, in the presence of Queen Victoria, other family members, visiting German royalty and a large number of staff.
He was responsible for the construction of the Star Amphitheatre at Balmoral Beach in 1924.
The pinnacle of this was a meeting on 9 April in the grounds of the Royal Agricultural Society near Balmoral, attended by seventy Unionist MPs, the Primate of All Ireland and topped by " perhaps the largest Union Jack ever made " – 48 feet by 25 feet on a flagpole 90 feet high.
The couple became engaged in 1855 while Frederick was on a visit to Balmoral ; Victoria was just fourteen, while her future husband was a young man of twenty-four.

Balmoral and birthplace
Vehmaa is known of their red Granite Balmoral red, as well as being the birthplace of Albin Stenroos who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1924 Olympics.

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