{"id":357812,"date":"2025-08-19T22:04:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357812\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:04:46","slug":"buckingham-palace-releases-rare-photos-after-andrew-joins-king-charles-at-balmoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357812\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckingham Palace releases rare photos after Andrew joins King Charles at Balmoral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/619518_6671275_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Buckingham Palace releases rare photos after Andrew joins King Charles at Balmoral\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Family on Tuesday marked their annual summer retreat in Scotland with a new Instagram post highlighting nearly two centuries of tradition at Balmoral Estate.<\/p>\n<p>The post noted that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert began the custom in 1852, and that the Scottish Highlands have since served as the backdrop for both official and private family moments.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/619518_8506423_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Buckingham Palace releases rare photos after Andrew joins King Charles at Balmoral\" width=\"719\" height=\"1225\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The social media post featured multiple photographs of King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Balmoral, alongside archival images of the late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, underscoring the estate\u2019s enduring role in royal life.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail reported that Prince Andrew, Duke of York, has also joined the king and other senior royals at Balmoral this summer despite a series of damaging revelations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/619518_9057171_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Buckingham Palace releases rare photos after Andrew joins King Charles at Balmoral\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The newspaper noted that Andrew \u201chonourably withdrew\u201d from attending the family\u2019s Christmas gathering at Sandringham last year to avoid being a distraction, following reports linking him to an alleged Chinese spy.<\/p>\n<p>Historian Andrew Lownie\u2019s new book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, has reignited scrutiny of Andrew\u2019s ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and claims about his private conduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Family on Tuesday marked their annual summer retreat in Scotland with a new Instagram post highlighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-357812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115057699977693990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}