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title:  Where is King Charles III Spending the Summer Break?
description: Every year, King Charles and Queen Camilla retreat to the 50,000-acre Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire, closing its gates to the public and its diary to almo...
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-08-10T07:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-08-10T08:05:06.148Z
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Since 10 August, the 50,000-acre Aberdeenshire estate that has belonged to the Royal Family since 1852 has been shut to the public that spent the spring and early summer wandering its grounds, gardens and Ballroom exhibition. What replaces the visitors is a household, a diary and, gradually, the rest of the family, arriving through late August and into autumn.

The King rarely arrives at Balmoral directly. This year, as in previous ones, the route north has run through a string of smaller, older rituals first. He was seen at the Mey Highland Games, an occasion he has marked for years, before staying at the Castle of Mey on Scotland's northern coast, a house with its own long-standing place in the family's summer calendar. While there, he was pictured planting the King's Rose in gardens first cultivated by his grandmother, the Queen Mother, a small, literal continuity between one generation's planting and the next.

From Caithness, the route continued to Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands, where the King, dressed in a tartan kilt and sporran, joined celebrations marking 800 years since the town was granted Royal Burgh status. He presented the King's Award for Voluntary Service to representatives of the Evanton Wood Community Company and Highland and Island Blood Bikes, watched performances from local music groups and Highland dancers and by every account on the day looked genuinely delighted to be there. Afterwards, a message from the palace's social media team summed up the visit simply: 'Thank you to everyone who came to say hello!'

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