Although he spent two decades as a senior gardener at Highgrove House, Jack Stooks traveled to other royal residences with King Charles, and he shares that there’s one destination “that gives you an overwhelming feeling of coming home.” Tucked away in the Scottish Highlands, the Balmoral estate has been a special retreat for the Royal Family since Queen Victoria’s day, and it has allowed Queen Elizabeth’s children and the generations after to experience true peace and privacy.
Speaking on behalf of Smooth Spins Casino, Stooks shares that for King Charles, Balmoral allows him to “switch off, even if only for a little while.” The former gardener—who even accompanied The King and Queen on their 2005 honeymoon to Birkhall, Charles’s house on the Balmoral estate—adds that The King spent his childhood fishing alongside the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth in Scotland, and the sport “has always been a much-loved tradition for the family.”
