For royals, heading up to Balmoral in the summer is an annual tradition. Prince William and Harry will have had many childhood memories at the Scottish castle.

Sadly for Prince Harry, he was at the estate in August 1997 when he heard the tragic news that his mother Princess Diana had died following a car crash in Paris.

After they wed in 2018, Meghan and Harry visited Balmoral with the Queen, which became the only time the Duchess of Sussex made the trip to the Scottish estate.

The Sussexes were invited to the royal site the following year, but with Prince Archie just three months old at the time, the parents decided he was too young to travel.

Royal fans have pointed out though that the Duke and Duchess are reported to have taken Archie on a different trip around the same time, in August 2019.

Reports in Spanish publications claimed Meghan, Harry and Archie flew to the Balearic island on a private plane and were accompanied by their normal security team.

It then later emerged they also travelled to Nice shortly after for a short trip, where they stayed at Elton John’s private villa.

With or without the Sussexes, Balmoral has taken on a new poignancy since the late Queen died there in September 2022 at the age of 96.

And following Meghan and Harry’s suit, the King also broke with tradition last year by not spending the summer at Balmoral Castle.

Instead, Charles and Queen Camilla chose Birkhall as their main base until autumn instead, leaving Balmoral without a monarch physically in residence for the first time since the 19th century.

Birkhall, the smaller private residence on the 50,000-acre Balmoral estate, is where the couple spent most of the Covid-19 lockdown and the King has called it “such a special place”.

He inherited it upon the death of his grandma, the Queen Mother, in 2002 and has diligently turned it into somewhere he and his wife Camilla can happily call home.