 Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband, put a lot of his private money into it and fell in love with it in the 1850s because the beautiful hills, as you say, up in Aberdeenshire reminded him of his home in Thuringia in Germany. So it has a slightly German architectural style to it, but the number of royal and political visitors who've been there over the centuries sort of boggles the imagination. If anyone's interested in sort of the less lucky side of royalty, the Romanovs were there in the 1890s. The Tsarina was Queen Victoria's