Balmoral Castle—nestled in the Scottish Highlands—is the official summer retreat of the British royal family, where the family heads off to every August for time together in the outdoors, away from the glare of the public fishbowl that is life as a royal. It is said to have been Queen Elizabeth’s favorite place in the world and, though filled with family memories, is also tinged with sadness—it is where Her late Majesty died at age 96 in September 2022, and also where Prince William and Prince Harry were staying with their father, then Prince Charles, when they learned that their mother, Princess Diana, had been killed in a Parisian car accident at age 36 in August 1997.
