2. The History and Development of Royal Tourism in Scotland: Balmoral, the Ultimate Holiday Home?

Butler, Richard; Long, Philip E.; Palmer, Nicola

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“…This dominating stance, and the implicit suggestion of MacNab's wealth given that portraiture was costly and limited to the wealthy (Schama, 2015), is contradicted by his lifestyle. Curator Robin Nicholson describes MacNab as tarnished by 'unmanageable debt' (2005: 164), and his estates were sold after his death in 1816. and rebuilt as property of the British monarchy (Butler, 2008). As journalist George Monbiot suggests, 'this balmorality is equivalent to Marie Antoinette dressing up as a milkmaid while the people of France starved' (2015).…”

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“…When the Queen stakes out her ownership of Scottish land, she symbolically erases the crofters and clans, and – through her hereditary ownership of Balmoral – aligns herself with the aristocrats who initiated the clearances. Indeed, Balmoral was originally owned by the Chief of the Farquharson Clan before Prince Albert persuaded them to sell it to Queen Victoria in 1847 (Clan Farquharson, 2015), and the estate was demolished and rebuilt as property of the British monarchy (Butler, 2008). As journalist George Monbiot (2015) suggests, ‘this balmorality is equivalent to Marie Antoinette dressing up as a milkmaid while the people of France starved’.…”

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“…‘Queen of Scots’ only comes to fruition at Balmoral because of the destruction of indigenous 4 Scottish communities and the imposition of aristocratic power. If the monarchy’s ownership of Balmoral and affiliation with the region has served to strengthen the relationship between the Scottish citizens and the Crown (Butler, 2008), ‘Queen of Scots’ is a reminder of the symbolic violence of this historical connection.…”

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‘Queen of Scots’: The monarch’s body and national identities in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum

Clancy

2020

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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On 20 September 2014, in the wake of the Scottish Independence Referendum, the pro-union, right-wing British broadsheet The Daily Telegraph’ s front page was dominated by a photograph of Queen Elizabeth II in the grounds of her Balmoral Estate in the Scottish Highlands, under the headline ‘Queen’s pledge to help reunite the Kingdom’. This article takes the headline as a departure point through which to explore competing discourses of national identity during the Independence Referendum. Understanding the Queen’s body as a site of symbolic struggle over these discourses, this article undertakes visual analysis to unpack the composition of the photograph, in order to understand its social, historical, political and cultural meanings. In so doing, it argues that the use of ‘Queen of Scots’ in The Daily Telegraph at the specific conjunctural moment of the Scottish Independence Referendum reveals the complex intersections between monarchy, power, (geo)politics, symbolism, sovereignty, national identity/identities and landscape in the United Kingdom.

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2020

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…In this, he was like his father, who had adored the royal estate at Balmoral, in part because he could spend hours stalking deer in the Scottish Charles V. Reed -9781526123848 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 07/05/2020 11:45:04AM via free access [ 18 ] Highlands. 63 Alfred frequently and excitedly reported to his mother his hunting adventures while on tour. In South Africa, he and George Grey awaited a rumbling herd of wild animals, rounded up and driven toward them by a group of local natives, and began firing upon them en masse during a rather grotesque 'hunting' trip in 1860.…”

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British royals at home with the empire

Reed¹

2017

Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects and the Making of a British World, 1860–1911

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We were so frightened to hear that our husbands were going to war.… We had no slight idea what the war was about, the thing is, we only heard that Queen [Victoria] has asked for help, so they are going to fight for the Queen. We then know that this involves us, if they [the Germans] are fighting the Queen, as we were her people. We were under her, and she helped us against our enemies and with other things, so we had to help her. We didn't know how long they were going to take there. Even if we were afraid we just encouraged them to go in the name of God, we will also pray for them whilst gone, so that they can help the Queen as she helped us.Miriam Pilane of Bechuanaland, post-war interview 1

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“…In this, he was like his father, who had adored the royal estate at Balmoral, in part because he could spend hours stalking deer in the Scottish [ 18 ] Highlands. 63 Alfred frequently and excitedly reported to his mother his hunting adventures while on tour. In South Africa, he and George Grey awaited a rumbling herd of wild animals, rounded up and driven toward them by a group of local natives, and began firing upon them en masse during a rather grotesque 'hunting' trip in 1860.…”

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Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects and the Making of a British World, 1860-1911

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British royals at home with the empire We were so frightened to hear that our husbands were going to war.… We had no slight idea what the war was about, the thing is, we only heard that Queen [Victoria] has asked for help, so they are going to fight for the Queen. We then know that this involves us, if they [the Germans] are fighting the Queen, as we were her people. We were under her, and she helped us against our enemies and with other things, so we had to help her. We didn't know how long they were going to take there. Even if we were afraid we just encouraged them to go in the name of God, we will also pray for them whilst gone, so that they can help the Queen as she helped us. Miriam Pilane of Bechuanaland, postwar interview 1 As Miriam Pilane saw it, the Tswana-speaking peoples of southern Africa were motivated to serve the British war effort during the Second World War because of their loyalty to a long-dead British Queen. While her invoking of the Great White Queen was, at some level, simply an instance of confusion, it also demonstrates the longevity of Queen Victoria as a symbol of British justice and benevolence, the image carefully nurtured by colonial officials and imperial stakeholders of the Queen as the mother of empire. Despite anti-colonial movements of the interwar period and imperial betrayals from the Union of South Africa to the Amritsar Massacre, this image managed to survive, a testament to the effectiveness of imperial propaganda. Through the ideological work of colonial officials, Queen Victoria's subjects across the empire imagined her to be a justice-giving imperial mother. There are perhaps more statues of Victoria on earth than of any other non-religious figure in history. She sits or stands among whizzing automobiles in Auckland, in front of neo-Gothic façades in Mumbai, and near the waterfront that bears her name in Cape Town-in bustling metropolises and provincial towns, near churches, mosques, and temples. In 1876, using the successes of the Prince of

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2. The History and Development of Royal Tourism in Scotland: Balmoral, the Ultimate Holiday Home?

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‘Queen of Scots’: The monarch’s body and national identities in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum

‘Queen of Scots’: The monarch’s body and national identities in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum

British royals at home with the empire

Chapter 1: British royals at home with the empire

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