By Catherine Ostler for the Daily Mail. A welcome retreat from an inquisitive world, Craigowan Lodge โ a relatively modest stone building a mile from Balmoral Castle โ will provide the Queen with much needed privacy and scope for reflection in the coming weeks following the celebrations that marked her 90th birthday this month.
Situated on the edge of the forest in the royal estate in Aberdeenshire, it is to this secluded seven-bedroom house that the Queen likes to retire several times a year, to read, write letters, walk and ride. Only one guest is ever allowed to accompany the monarch to her favourite hideaway โ her niece, Lady Sarah Chatto.
Scroll down for video. She is her absolute favourite younger Royal'. She is her absolute favourite younger Royal. Much giggling can be heard when they are together. They share a sense of loyalty, fun, duty and the ridiculous.
Watching the historical archive for the first time, Sarah was enchanted to see her younger self whoosh down a water slide on the deck of the Royal Yacht Britannia pictured and pass through the legs of her cousin Prince Charles. Watching the historical archive for the first time, Sarah was enchanted to see her younger self whoosh down a water slide on the deck of the Royal Yacht Britannia and pass through the legs of her cousin Prince Charles.
She was also visibly moved at footage of her mother as a toddler singing with her big sister, the Queen, and dancing with their mother on the deck of the royal yacht, HMY Victoria and Albert, that preceded Britannia. She was also visibly moved at footage of her mother pictured holding Lady Sarah as a toddler singing with her big sister, the Queen, and dancing with their mother on the deck of the royal yacht, HMY Victoria and Albert, that preceded Britannia. It is said that in some respects Sarah, a successful artist who is 21st in line to the throne, reminds the Queen of her much-missed sister Margaret, to whom she was very close.
