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Balmoral

Balmoral Castle
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About Balmoral

Balmoral Castle is a large estate house in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and a residence of the British royal family. It is near the village of Crathie, 9 miles (14 km) west of Ballater and 50 miles (80 km) west of Aberdeen.

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Prince Albert bought Balmoral with his own money, unlike all the other royal residences — it's actually private property owned by the royal family, whereas all the other ones are owned by the Crown. Every year they hold a gillies ball in the Balmoral Ballroom.

from No Such Thing As An Unenjoyable Bowel Movement, 2015-05-08 at 00:13:28 · read transcript

Other times Balmoral came up

  1. Just going back to Balmoral for a minute um the actual ballroom in Balmoral now is the largest room in the castle it's the only one that's open to the public and um Prince Albert because Prince Albert bought Balmoral with his own money unlike all the.

    60: No Such Thing As An Unenjoyable Bowel Movement, 2015-05-08 · listen

  2. Yes. The Balmoral clock. Yeah. Has always been set three minutes fast. Isn't that it's on the Scotsman Hotel, right? It's on the Balmoral Hotel, I think. Yeah, just outside the station. Yeah. The people, I think it's three minutes and the only time that that one runs on time is for New York. It's year. I think they run three minutes fast all the time and then they put it back for Hogmane, so they're not ahead of everyone else.

    No Such Thing As A Penguin in a Nightclub, 2020-09-18 · listen

  3. Although the Queen does muck around with her own identity a bit. Recently, one of the former Royal Protection Officers told the story about, because he worked with her for about 30 years, and she was out for a walk near Balmoral, her estate there. They bumped into a group of American tourists and they said, they spoke to her, they said, does she live in the area?

    111: No Such Thing As Snappedy Chat, 2016-04-29 · listen

  4. Worth a try. Worth a try. Although the Queen does muck around with her own identity a bit. Recently, one of the former Royal Protection Officers told the story about, because he worked with her for about 30 years, and she was out for a walk near Balmoral, her estate there. They bumped into a group of American tourists. They said, they spoke to her. They said, does she live in the area?

    No Such Thing As Snappedy Chat, 2016-04-29 · listen

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