Balmoral Castle

for many years the autumn home of Queen Victoria and her family. It is situated in northern Scotland, in a beautiful dell of Braemar, forty-eight miles west of Aberdeen. Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband, bought the estate for $150,000 in 1848-52, and erected the present castle of granite. The estate now includes 40,000 acres, three-fourths of which are a deer forest, with several fine trout lochs. Queen Victoria was very partial to Balmoral and is remembered there with intense affection. For many years fashions were supposed to be set by Balmoral and the name became attached to various articles of feminine attire. See Victoria; Wight; Buckingham; Windsor