{"id":2439939,"date":"2026-06-01T10:14:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2439939"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:14:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:14:05","slug":"king-pays-tribute-to-uniquely-special-balmoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/king-pays-tribute-to-uniquely-special-balmoral\/","title":{"rendered":"King pays tribute to \u2018uniquely special\u2019 Balmoral"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Balmoral holds a \u201cuniquely special place\u201d in the hearts of the Royal family, the King has said in the foreword to a new guidebook.<\/p>\n

The monarch, writing in the 80-page paperback titled Balmoral, said the Scottish estate was a \u201ccherished home\u201d for his family, with \u201cstartling individuality\u201d and a \u201cprecious, almost sacred, surrounding landscape\u201d.<\/p>\n

In 1852, the 50,000-acre Balmoral estate was purchased by Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert<\/a>, who had become strongly drawn to the Highlands and went on to build the castle.<\/p>\n

Since then, it has become a favourite summer retreat of the Royal family, with kings and queens adding their own stamp to the castle and grounds through the decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Balmoral holds a \u201cuniquely special place\u201d in the hearts of the Royal family, the King has said in the foreword to a new guidebook. The monarch, writing in the 80-page paperback titled Balmoral, said the Scottish estate was a \u201ccherished home\u201d for his family, with \u201cstartling individuality\u201d and a \u201cprecious, almost sacred, surrounding landscape\u201d. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2439940,"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":[348303,478853,183049,21738,24085,22769,307248,344742,24515,356051,382398],"class_list":["post-2439939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-balmoral","tag-highlands-and-islands","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-news","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-royal-family","tag-scotland","tag-standard","tag-the-royal-family","tag-uk-news","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/King-pays-tribute-to-\u2018uniquely-special-Balmoral.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439939","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=2439939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439941,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439939\/revisions\/2439941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}