How King Charles III grew up to be a kilt-loving defender of Scotland's countryside.
Despite his tough times at Gordonstoun, King Charles’s love of Scotland never wavered and he shares his late mother’s love and affection for the country. It’s perhaps unsurprising as his associations here began before he was old enough to know when he had crossed the Border.
Charles also inherited the title Duke of Edinburgh from his father but did not use it. Like the rest of his family, Scotland has been Charles’s retreat and escape route. As a child he spent holidays at the Balmoral estate. He went riding with his father and fishing with his grandmother. On the moors, he killed his first stag aged 13.
By that time, Balmoral and the rural north-east were under her husband’s skin. The year before the wedding, he published a children’s book, The Old Man of Lochnagar. It was based on a tale Charles used to tell his wee brothers, set in the caves beside the mountain that overlooks Balmoral. Charles chose to propose to Camilla Parker Bowles at Birkhall in 2005. They went on to spend their honeymoon there that year. The couple visit in the late summer. They were in residence for the first Covid lockdown in 2020. Charles self-isolated there when he had the virus.
Charles added to his Scottish portfolio in 2007, when he saved Dumfries House, an 18th-century mansion, near Cumnock in Ayrshire. It was about to be sold to cover the owner, the Marquess of Bute’s death duties.
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