That's where she felt good, and that's where she died.
Queen Elizabeth II breathed her last Thursday at Balmoral, her beloved Scottish residence.
It was in 1852 that the 20,000 ha property became the property of the Royal Family of England: Prince Albert offered it to Queen Victoria.
Since then, the neo-Gothic walls of Aberdeenshire Castle have seen many generations of Windsor pass by.
Having become the personal residence of the king and queen, Balmoral traditionally welcomes the monarch during the summer and until October.
This year, she went there on July 21 but, very weakened during the year, she stayed there.
This is where she received, a few days ago, the resignation of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and where she appointed the new head of government Liz Truss.
This is the first time that she has made this short audience in this residence.
At Balmoral, the Queen does the dishes
Upon her marriage in 1947, Elizabeth began to stay in this private residence, which belonged to her family and not to the Crown.
She even organizes part of her honeymoon there in a hunting lodge located on the estate.
His son Charles and Princess Diana would also spend their honeymoon there in 1981.
The family meets there for big barbecues: the Prince of Edinburgh in the kitchen, his wife the Queen in the dishes.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who had been a guest at Balmoral, wrote in his memoirs of Prince Philip as the barbecue chef as the monarch cleared the table: “You think I'm kidding but I'm not.
The queen asks if you are finished, she stacks the plates and goes to the sink.
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Queen Elisabeth on September 9, 1960 with her husband Duke Philip of Edinburgh, and her three children: Charles, Anne and Andrew.
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Princess Eugenie, the Queen's granddaughter, will say Balmoral is a 'lovely base for grandma and grandpa' and a place to 'have space, breathe and run' .
She hunted bats there
"Walks, picnics, dogs - lots of dogs, there are always dogs - and people coming in and out all the time," the princess further describes.
It is even said that in her youth, the Queen liked to hunt herself with a net the bats that haunted the ballroom of the castle.
Sometimes the residence is open to visitors.
It is said that the facetious one day would have come across American tourists on her property and would have started chatting with them.
“Have you ever met the queen?
he would have been asked.
“No, but he does!
Elizabeth would have replied, pointing to her bodyguard.
It was also in this castle, alongside their grandmother, that Princes Harry and William learned of the tragedy that turned their lives upside down and shook the Crown of England: in August 1997, news arrived from Paris, their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales has died.
Thursday, Harry and William, were reunited again, with their family, in Balmoral, near their grandmother who died there at 96 years old.