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Queen and Country - Balmoral

Countryfile is been given unprecedented access to the Queen’s Balmoral estate. Matt Baker opens the programme at Glamis Castle, the family home of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother. It is where HM the Queen spent many happy childhood holidays. It is also where her love of the countryside was born, and as Matt finds out it is where she and her family explored the nearby countryside in all weathers. Ellie Harrison explores the woodland on the Balmoral estate and sees how conservation projects introduced by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are encouraging wildlife. Anita Rani is on the Western Isles, where the royal family would travel on board the royal yacht Britannia before it was decommissioned. Anita alights on the Isle of Ghiga where the Queen once made an unannounced visit which the locals still remember today.

English
  • Originally Aired September 11, 2022
  • Runtime 56 minutes
  • Special Position Airs after season 31
  • Network BBC One
  • Special is Critical to Show's Story No
  • Created October 27, 2022 by
    stevemcclary
  • Modified October 27, 2022 by
    stevemcclary