to be somewhat sorry for the Queen as she's unable to go on holidays abroad, it seems?

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Maybe I'm just ignorant, and she may go (in secret?) or used to go until recently with her husband, but if not, surely spending ALL summers in Scotland whatever the weather is samey and not very healthy (no sea and sun benefits)? Older people especially need their sun, not least for the vit D to avoid osteoporosis (women especially).
And I don't mean official visits, just private time, few weeks of doing nothing.

There was that documentary last year for her jubilee that showed home movie footage of them on holiday in balmoral. They looked lovely family holidays, the queen was cooking prince Philip running round playing with the kids. Seemed normal lovely family stuff.

Oh and have a google of some of the Scottish island before making your assumptions about Scotland.

she's not on holiday in Scotland. She's in one of her own houses surrounded by her own possessions. She's as much at home as when in London. It feels totally different to being on holiday. familiarity etc.

I was right not to allow my Scottish DH to convince me to move to Scotland then? That was a narrow escape. Maybe the climate is the cause of all the red hair up there? Can we sue for that?

Nah ... Queenie loves Balmoral. They have REAL fresh air up there don't you know.

Best we all chip in for a saga coach trip to Bognor then.

I am in Scotland ATM and im over dosing on vit d I can't see queenie wanting to sunbathe on the beach tbh she is an old lady and probably loves her holidays at her MANY MANY castles

lo = little one

"surely spending ALL summers in Scotland whatever the weather is samey and not very healthy (no sea and sun benefits)"

I'm in Scotland. It's roasting here and the sea, a few hundred yards away from my house, is looking very inviting. We're all pretty healthy (except DH who has a cold and hay fever, poor chap).

The weather is not at all samey, just like the rest of the UK it varies a lot.

YABVU

Having re-read your OP I realise you weren't meaning the weather is samey, just the country.

You're weird...

Ah yes, Scotland, famous for being landlocked. .

She can't have a castle to stay in in every country on the globe, can she?

I think thhe Queen relaxes at balmoral and puts her rain jacket and head scarf on and enjoys a bit of downtime and phillip can kill a few birds and rabbits

Lots of people from Scotland have gone on to live perfectly normal lives. Take Sean Connery for instance. He got out and became a top film star. That inventor Archie has moved south and talks properly now he's a vicar. Andy Murray has done quite well for himself now he's based in Florida. There is hope for Scotish people. Not all will end up becoming Krankies.

Scotland has very long daylight hours in the summer. Plenty of chances to make vitamin D.

basic science. Not knowing that is ignorant.

See, i feel more sorry for those that can't afford holidays, anywhere, like

First of all- she travels shitloads

Second of all- loads if people never get to go abroad, why should she get more sympathy than non queens?

Yes my heart is truly breaking for someone who has lived their entire life in utter luxury despite doing nothing, whatsoever, so earn it themselves

I don't give a hoot about all those pensioners that can hardly afford to eat or heat their homes in winter.

She travels loads.

I have never been on a holiday. Many, many people have never been on a holiday.

Why feel sympathy for a very rich, palace owning Queen who goes on holidays to a big, posh place in Scotland? It's a holiday.

The weather was so nice here OP that we had a BBQ last night for dinner, and before you ask, no it wasn't grilled haggis.

At least twice in the last few years ago she's hired a small ship to do the same for a family holiday - and yes they did get off the ship and go to National Trust properties etc.

This one I believe www.hebridean.co.uk/ The Travel supplement in The Times had an article on it yesterday and it sounds utterly fabulous.

I am sure I have read that she sometimes has private holidays at a place in Kentucky where they train race horses.

Lots of people from Scotland have gone on to live perfectly normal lives. Take Sean Connery for instance. He got out and became a top film star. That inventor Archie has moved south and talks properly now he's a vicar. Andy Murray has done quite well for himself now he's based in Florida. There is hope for Scotish people. Not all will end up becoming Krankies.

This.

This has to be one of the strangest posts I've ever read on here.

Who'd have thought that older people, and women in particular, need their sun - and foreign sun at that ! Best get their GPs to write out a prescription for a fortnight in the Med quicksmart then seeing as they need it so badly and the sun never shines in the UK .....

And more generally speaking, there are many many pensioners who'd love a trip to Scotland (or anywhere).

I was planning to fly north of the border next week... best put a stop to that lest the children become weak and sickly from a Scottish Holiday.

I think if she wanted to she would, after all Princess Margaret went to the Caribbean a lot.

However Balmoral gives her a huge area where she can relax and be away from prying eyes. It will also have lots of great memories.

In my distant past I spent a summer doing work partly on the Balmoral Estate, I got a lot of sunshine and really enjoyed being out there. (There are also far less midges etc. than the West of Scotland.)

christ alight she's in holiday mode in Balmoral frpm the 1st week of July until October and is waited on hand and foot by a fleet of flunkies.

It isn't like she lacks downtime. As a former royal aide pointed out yhe triumph of the Windsor pr machine is convincing the public that the royal family
who at best perform public duties three days a week six months a year 'work hard'

Last year the Duchess of Cambridge's annual schedule was equivalent to three weeks of full time work.