City of Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh
The Queen, Her Yacht — and the Hotel That Upstaged Them Both
Aug 6, 2026 • 15 min read
I returned to Edinburgh for Elizabeth II’s private rooms. W Edinburgh rewrote the script. By the time I reached Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth II had already hijacked my Scottish itinerary from beyond the grave. Balmoral had top billing. It was the reason for returning to Scotland: the private Highland estate where the late Queen spent her summers, r