We were happiest on holiday in Balmoral, say Queen Elizabeth’s children in BBC tribute

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late Queen Elizabeth’s life from her idyllic and private childhood home in Piccadilly to her final days, her four children recalled that some of their best times as a family were spent on holiday in Balmoral, Scotland.

Anne, Princess Royal, recalled how “the holiday times were pretty well kept, actually, from our perspective” adding that on holiday her parents were “nearly always around”. “Partly because it included all the things that she enjoyed, included the countryside, the dogs, the horses and just being out and about and being able to get away a bit from that public gaze,” she added.

Edward, the Earl of Wessex, the Queen’s youngest child, said that “the happiest times inevitably that we'd spend together would be on holidays, so Balmoral and Sandringham stand out very, very clearly as favourite places because of the time we spent together as a family. ”King Charles III also shared his recollections and his “very happy memories of childhood up in Scotland, you know Balmoral in the summer”, adding: “I was very lucky to have her as a mother. ”He added that his mother always took “great interest in the things I was doing” and was also keen for her children not to receive special treatment, sending him to school with a note “saying I was to be treated just like everybody else”.

Princess Anne said: “She was always the Queen because that was really important for all of us, but she was always my mother so that is how you would remember her. ”Prince Andrew added: “We weren't appendages that should be seen and not heard, we were definitely the priority.