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Winter at Balmoral Castle, traditional Scottish wooden cottage Royal Deeside, Crathie Estate, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland UK. Image captured on 04/2007.
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Kate Middleton and Prince William own a home that many Britons don’t even know about – a cottage on the Queen’s 50,000-acre property in Scotland.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge split most of the time between London, at Kensington Palace, and Anmer Hall, their country house on the Queen’s estate in Sandringham, Norfolk.
But Tam-Na-Ghar has particularly happy memories of Kate and William, a place they visited frequently when they were dating, Mirror reported.
And the royal couple even packed their offspring – Prince George, 7; Prince Charlotte, 5; and Prince Louis, 2 – in the three-bedroom house for a two-summer stay ago.
The house, a gift from the great-grandmother Queen Mother to William before he died in 2002, is close to where Prince Charles and Camilla live on the property – Birkhall.
Balmoral Castle is the crown jewel of the 150-building complex, where the Queen and Prince Philip spend their summers.
There are also a number of cottages that royalty rents to vacationers – when they’re not there.