This is a first since the appointment of Lord Salisbury by Victoria in 1885: the new head of the British government, Liz Truss, officially presented herself to the queen on Tuesday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, rather than at Buckingham Palace, where the monarch had enthroned her fourteen previous prime ministers.
Encouraged by her doctors, Elizabeth II gave up making the trip due to "
mobility difficulties
", said the press service of the royal family.
Despite a deep attachment to customs, perhaps the latter did not have to force herself too much by staying in this residence, a mixture of authenticity, British warmth and dazzling nature, of which she is passionate, and which is now inseparable from his reign.
The neo-Gothic castle, built from 1848 by Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert.
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Romantic Scotland
Unlike other royal residences, the place is private property, acquired in the mid-19th century by Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert.
Historian and journalist Isabelle Rivère* describes…
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