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Winter at Balmoral Castle, traditional Scottish wooden lodge Royal Deeside, Crathie Estate, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, United Kingdom. Image shot 04/2007.
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Kate Middleton and Prince William have a house that many Britons do not even know about – a cottage on the Queen’s estate of 50,000 acres in Scotland.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spent most of their time between London in Kensington Palace and Anmer Hall, their country house on Queen’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.
But Tam-Na-Ghar holds memories especially for Kate and William, a place they regularly visited when they went out, reports the Mirror.
And the royal couple even packed their offspring – Prince George (7); Prince Charlotte, 5; and Prince Louis (2) – two summers ago in the three-bedroom house for a place to stay.
The cottage, a gift to great-grandmother William the Queen Mother before she died in 2002, is close to the place where Prince Charles and Camilla live on the estate – Birkhall.
Balmoral Castle is the crown jewel of the 150-building building, where the Queen and Prince Philip spend their summers.
There are also several cottages on the site that the royals rent to holidaymakers – if they are not there.