Sign up to our free email to get all the latest royal news and pictures We have more newsletters Sign up to our free email to get all the latest royal news and pictures We have more newsletters The King is renowned for his specific tastes in interior design - and these will be on display when the doors to the Royal Family's much-loved retreat at Balmoral Castle are thrown open to the public for the first time in its history. King Charles will be allowing visitors to step inside the Scottish retreat in Royal Deeside - where Queen Elizabeth II passed away in September 2022 - allowing them a glimpse of Royal Family 's private life in the Highlands. From Monday, 1 July, visitors can take a guided tour of a number of rooms in the Aberdeenshire castle, where successive monarchs since Queen Victoria have been able to relax and recharge amongst local Scots who have treated them as their own.
James Hamilton Goddard, visitor enterprise manager for the Balmoral Estate , has been working with his team to open up the royal residence’s entrance hall, red corridor, main and family dining rooms, page’s lobby, library and drawing room to the public. He said: “It’s a magnificent place, I think the King wants people to see (it). We were asked, my department, to put this together and we put this together.
“The public who managed to get a ticket will come away (having seen) the royal family’s holiday home – that’s exactly what it is, it feels very homely.” King Charles is the la.