{"id":1947918,"date":"2025-08-07T23:23:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1947918"},"modified":"2025-08-07T23:23:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T23:23:45","slug":"king-charles-balmoral-castle-estate-closes-amid-storm-floris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/king-charles-balmoral-castle-estate-closes-amid-storm-floris\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles\u2019 Balmoral Castle Estate Closes Amid Storm Floris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>One of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_charles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><strong>King Charles<\/strong> <\/a><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_charles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">III<\/a>\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0summer home is taking a royal break from the public eye.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in;background:white\"><span style=\"color:black\">Balmoral Castle, the family&#8217;s<\/span><span style=\"color:#ee0000\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color:black\">estate<\/span><span style=\"color:#ee0000\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color:black\">in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, announced a temporary closure due to a strong summer storm affecting the United Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Balmoral will be closed to the public today, Monday 4th August, due to Storm Floris,&#8221; the estate said in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DM7Qb4fMRNC\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">statement posted to Instagram<\/a> August 4. &#8220;Please do not travel to the Estate. We will be issuing refunds for tickets to visit today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The post added, &#8220;Stay safe everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the storm&#8217;s conditions are unusually intense for the summer season, with the U.K.\u2019s Meteorological Office issuing an amber and yellow wind warning in Scotland, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/uk-scotland-storm-floris-wind-rain-a06726a4f537cf35ba09bb514a6ea19a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Associated Press<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Balmoral&#8217;s unexpected closure comes just one day after the residence\u2014which the royal family is known to stay at towards the end of each summer\u2014<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DM4t7tPtJtn\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=3172582b-05e9-49d8-9172-13f4305e69bf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> that it is set to close to the public for the season on August 10.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement noted that Balmoral is &#8220;the Highland home of the Royal Family, offering a unique glimpse into regal heritage and the enduring legacy of the monarchy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of King Charles III\u2019s\u00a0summer home is taking a royal break from the public eye. Balmoral Castle, the family&#8217;s\u00a0estate\u00a0in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, announced a temporary closure due to a strong summer storm affecting the United Kingdom. &#8220;Balmoral will be closed to the public today, Monday 4th August, due to Storm Floris,&#8221; the estate said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1947919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/King-Charles-Balmoral-Castle-Estate-Closes-Amid-Storm-Floris.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1947919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}