The 72,000 acre Balmoral estate always appeared to be a very special place for the Queen from her childhood and into old age.
It seems fitting now, that her majesty passed away at the place she was known to both to her and her staff as "the big rest”.
As her granddaughter, Eugenie, said in 2016, in the TV documentary to celebrate HM’s 90th year: “Granny is most happy there.”