Royal Family set to be 'released from the cage' and unwind from tiresome royal duties
The royals will shortly be embarking on their annual summer holiday to Balmoral in Scotland, where they can spend some private time together away from the glare of the public eye.
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The Royal Family are soon to be "released" after being "caged for the year" as they travel up to Scotland to spend the latter part of the summer at Balmoral Castle, an expert has claimed.
Former royal butler Paul Burrell explained how being in Scotland is a release for King Charles, as it was for his late mother Queen Elizabeth II, who spent her final days at her property there.
Speaking on behalf of Slingo, Mr Burrell said: "Things are evolving and moving on as they should and the King will be going on his summer holidays. He adores Scotland.
"He has Scottish blood running through his veins. He's very proud of his connections. His grandmother was Scottish and so the Queen was half Scottish and so is he, a part of him is Scottish too.
"I think Scotland, what it does for the Royal Family, it releases them because Scotland is so big and beautiful and open, they've been caged for the year and now they can be released."
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While in the Highlands the Firm enjoy getting outdoors, walking, hunting, picnics and barbecues, with the late Prince Philip famed for taking control of the grill and Queen Elizabeth II in charge of the washing up.
But there will still be time for entertaining, as Mr Burrell added the royals are "never really alone" and that they love having their friends around them.
The former butler noted that for the King royal duties will remain, as now he is monarch he will never be able to have too much time for himself.
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Mr Burrell said: "The King is going to find it very different this year because now he's a monarch and things have changed.
"Last year, he could do what he wanted, go wherever he wanted to go and didn't have any constraints, but this year he's monarch and he will have to, wherever he is, receive his government red box every single day, the way the Queen did all her life.
"I think he's going to find that difficult because now he has to work, to some degree, every single day of the rest of his life."
He continued: "It's a big shock when you've been waiting, a big shock for him when he's been waiting for this job all his life and now he's got it well, he's chained to it.
"His summer holidays won't be the same ever again, not like the rest of the Royals. The minor Royals can literally do what they want to do but not the King and not the Queen. So their lives, they will find, have changed and their time isn't their own."
The King and Queen's time at Balmoral will poignantly coincide with the one-year anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's death, which the royals will mark with an informal commemoration.