Balmoral Castle tickets: Tours sell out in 24 hours

Guided excursions will happen of the fort’s inside from July 1 to August 4, however tickets offered out inside a day of happening sale.

The excursions will happen earlier than the King and Queen arrive for his or her summer season break on the Aberdeenshire fort, with 40 tickets a day made accessible.

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Guests have beforehand solely been capable of go to the ballroom and the grounds of the fort, which was accomplished in 1855 and purchased by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

The sell-out tour of the fort’s inside was priced at £100, or £150 for the tour plus afternoon tea.

Anti-monarchy group Republic has questioned why the general public are being charged £100 to see the fort when the King inherited “an estimated £600 million tax-free” when he got here to the throne.

The group posted on Twitter/X: “Whereas Balmoral is non-public property, it nonetheless prices the taxpayer a fortune in safety, journey and employees. The prime minister has two official houses, No. 10 and Chequers. Why does Charles want a dozen which find yourself costing us a fortune?”

The group additionally highlighted the tour prices almost twice as a lot because the one at Warner Bros Studios – the UK’s most costly vacationer attraction. Studio tour costs begin from £53.50 for adults. 

Excursions are restricted to 10 folks, and guests are promised “a historic journey via a number of of the attractive rooms inside Balmoral Fortress”, and the possibility to “journey via time” from the Victorian period to the current day.

Balmoral is described as “the much-loved and celebrated Highland house of the royal household”, in publicity materials for the excursions.

In September 2022, the Queen was photographed within the drawing room at Balmoral as she waited to obtain then Conservative chief Liz Truss, to ask her to turn out to be prime minister and type a brand new authorities.

Two days in a while September 8, the Queen died.