August means one thing for the British royal family —going to Balmoral. While he and the Sussexes aren’t invited this year, Prince Harry has, from time to time, opened up about vacationing in the Scottish Highlands. Ahead are some of the Duke of Sussex’s quotes about Balmoral from Spare .
1. Harry thought of Balmoral as ‘paradise’ Between all of the bombshells and claims in his 2023 Spare memoir, which may or may not someday get a sequel , Harry shared details about Balmoral, the royal family’s longtime summer retreat. (His late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II , who died at Balmoral in 2022, was especially fond of the estate.
) Harry began Spare by reflecting on Balmoral, the nearly 50,000-acre estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. To Harry, who now lives in Montecito, California, with Meghan Markle and their two children, it was “paradise.” “To me Balmoral was always simply paradise,” he said, calling it “a cross between Disney World and some sacred Druid grove.
” Like the rest of his family, he spent his time “mostly outdoors,” either “fishing, shooting,[or] running up and down ‘the hill.’” 2. He was ‘happy’ there before Princess Diana’s death Before Princess Diana died in Paris , France, on Aug.
31, 1997, following a car accident, then-12-year-old Harry—just weeks shy of turning 13—recalled “happy.” “I was happy there,” he said of Balmoral. “In fact, it’s possible that I was never happier than that one golden summer day .