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In the shadow of Lochnagar, at the foot of Craig Gowan, in Aberdeenshire, is Balmoral Castle, the private Scottish residence of the Royal Family.

Here was the cradle, rocked by the maternal hand of Queen Victoria, of the new-born British enthusiasm for Scottish culture and customs. The Scots were quite naturally already rather fanatic about their life-style, but even though the seed had been planted by Sir Walter Scott and the State Visit of George IV in 1822, the English needed Victoria’s sentimental approval before they could see anything the least romantic about those “northerners”.