The Queen has returned to
her Scottish residence, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, to mark Holyrood Week,
also known as Royal Week.
From meetings with Scotland’s
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to her granddaughter Zara Tindall’s wedding
photos, the royal family have shared several looks inside the Palace of
Holyroodhouse. Take a tour of the Queen’s spectacular home.
The Duchess of Cambridge met
with Hold Still winner Mila Sneddon, five, inside the Palace in May
2021, when the pair wore matching pink dresses. It revealed one of the
reception rooms features a large fireplace, yellow floor-to-ceiling
curtains, patterned sofas and matching chairs next to a gold and cream floor
lamp.
In 2017, Justin Trudeau
travelled to the Palace of Holyroodhouse for a private audience with the Queen.
This photo revealed another view of the reception room, with wood-panelled
walls, an enormous baroque patterned rug and two bold orange sofas with fringed
bottoms. They were dressed with orange and yellow cushions and positioned next
to a circular wooden side table each.
Following their wedding at
Canongate Kirk, newlyweds Zara and Mike Tindall were pictured in Holyrood
Abbey. The 12th-century abbey was once one of the grandest medieval abbeys in
Scotland with gothic windows and a vaulted ceiling, but it has been ruined
since the 18th century.
When the Queen met Scotland’s
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the pair were photographed in one of the home’s
receptions rooms. It’s decorated with red and blue baroque carpet, and has
wooden walls with a large fireplace. There are two chairs with wooden frames,
curved cabriole legs and red velvet upholstering. Behind the Queen, there is
another chair of the same shape, gilted in gold.
The Queen also met Ken
Macintosh, presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament on the same day. A
photograph of the pair revealed that there are enormous wall paintings hanging
in the room, as well as a gold gilted table and a large lamp with a fringed
shade.
Prince Harry and Meghan
Markle attended a Scottish event at the home in 2018. The couple were
photographed in the corridors of the property, which have wooden floors and
walls, and a combination of red and green velvet curtains with rope tiebacks
at different windows.
Once inside, the couple went
on to host an event for the youths of Scotland. They did so in a room with bold
red floral carpets, and lime green walls with high ceilings and various
paintings hanging in gold frames.
As Her Majesty and the late
Prince Philip walked to the Morning Drawing Room with Pope Benedict XVI in
2010, photos revealed the Great Stair which has 16th-century tapestries
hanging on the walls. There is also blue carpets and cream walls.
At Christmas time, the Palace
of Holyroodhouse installs a ten-foot-tall tree in the Great Gallery. It’s
decorated with miniature crowns.
The Queen was photographed
with Scotland’s then First Minister Alex Salmond in another reception room in
2007. It features cream carpets and light yellow walls with white wainscoting,
and is furnished with burnt orange sofas, green cushions and wooden side tables
and display units.
The monarch also
owns Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire where she often spends the
summer.
