Guests visiting Balmoral, the "Royal estate in Scotland, for the first time are apt to be astonished by the number of memorial cairns scattered about it. Queen Victoria had a great liking .for memorialising friends and events in this way. The first cairn was erected to commemorate the purchase of the estate, and was followed by a huge pile of loose' granite slabs in memory of the Prince Consort, and another to mark the spot where the Marquis of Lome proposed to Princess Louise. Other cairns raemoralise Princess Alice, the Duke of Albany, the Duke of Clarence, and Prince Henry of Battenberg, while all over the grounds are inscribed tablets and scats, to the memory of the Queen’s friends, and even to some of her get*. i
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Evening Star, Issue 18785, 8 November 1924, Page 10
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127Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 18785, 8 November 1924, Page 10
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