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Inchnabobart

Inchnabobart and the Craig of Inchnabobart in 2019
Inchnabobart in 2008

Inchnabobart is a hunting lodge on the Balmoral Castle estate in the parish of Glenmuick, Tullich and Glengairn in Aberdeenshire.

It is a small two-storey building with a separate outhouse.[1][2] The bridge crossing the Muick was demolished and has never been rebuilt.[3] Drovers would ford through the Muick at Inchnabobart heading over the Capel Mounth.[4] The site was one home to a farm.[5] Adam Watson listed the name 'Inchnabobart' as "river meadow of the cow enclosures" in his The Place Names of Upper Deeside.[6]

On 26 September 1903 Court Circular reported that Edward VII and George, Prince of Wales had started their deer drive at the lodge before proceeding along the River Muick.[7] Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh renovated the Inchnabobart and Glas-allt-Shiel lodges.[8] In Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, he recalls a barbecue with his family at the lodge in the summer of 2001.[9] Harry recalled "The warm kitchen! The old fireplace! I fell onto the fender, with its worn red cushion, and inhaled the smell of that huge pyramid of silver birch firewood stacked beside it. If there's a smell more intoxicating or inviting than silver birch, I don't know what it could be".[9] Prince Phillip barbecued fillets of venison and Cumberland sausages.[9] Harry drank a gin and tonic with his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and taught her how to say "booyakasha", the catchphrase of Ali G.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Inchnabobart". Canmore. Historic Environment Scotland. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
  2. ^ Slack, Megan (15 August 2023). "King Charles's secluded hunting lodge epitomizes a traditional Scottish hideaway". Homes and Gardens. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
  3. ^ Smith, Robert (2000). A Queen's Country. John Donald Publishers. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-85976-533-6.
  4. ^ Smith, Robert (1997). Land of the Lost. ISBN 978-0-85976-477-3.
  5. ^ Smith, Robert (1990). The Royal Glens. Edinburgh: Hyperion Books. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-85976-316-5.
  6. ^ Watson, Adam (2014). The Place Names of Upper Deeside. Paragon Publishing. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-80499-156-5.
  7. ^ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 37196. p. 9. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
  8. ^ Gyles Brandreth (2021-04-27). Philip. Coronet. p. 438. ISBN 978-1-4447-6960-9.
  9. ^ a b c d Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (2024). Spare (memoir). Penguin Group. p. 77-79. ISBN 978-1-78222-191-3.

56°58′27″N 3°08′09″W / 56.974120°N 3.135937°W / 56.974120; -3.135937

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