Queen Elizabeth Has Been Known to Catch Bats in a Butterfly Net at Balmoral Castle

There have been numerous fascinating revelations from Tina Brown’s The Palace Papers, but none quite as delightful as Brown’s description of Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral. “The Queen’s happy place has always been Balmoral,” Brown writes. The castle feels like a “piece of Bavaria dropped into a Scottish forest,” and Queen Elizabeth has spent three months there every year since 1926. Balmoral, Brown describes, is where “the monarch can exhale and know she is at last free of irksome royal engagements to be her true self.” The Queen with one of her beloved corgis at Balmoral, 1952. Bettmann Getty Images Queen… Read Full Article