The professional gardener is a close friend of Queen Camilla and for his new BBC series he visits Birkhall, the couple’s home on the Balmoral estate. Monty Don said: “I went to talk to the ...

PA Media The King and Queen Camilla spend their summer holidays on the Birkhall estate, next to Balmoral King Charles has continued the Royal Family tradition of spending his summer holidays at ...

during which time she would attend to her Highland ponies and enjoy strolls around the sprawling rural estate. It is understood Charles previously used the Birkhall retreat to recover from a ...

and at Birkhall there's a lot of drinking." There are also claims of a fireworks ban, as the King dislikes frightening the estate's prize-winning ducks. The late Margaret Rhodes, first cousin of ...