Every year Queen Elizabeth II retreats to Balmoral, her beloved 50,000 hectare country estate in the Scottish Highlands, for two to three months. This summer and fall, now without her husband Prince Philip, she is no exception. As she had done for decades, she moved her court to her favorite private residence on the banks of the River Dee. It is known that the monarch appreciates this place particularly because Philip had proposed to her here in autumn 1946.

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