A profusion of chintz. A surfeit of tartan. The Scottish castle’s decor begs the question: What is Royal taste? And what’s too much of it?
Maybe the exclusive opportunity was enough to make up for the common complaint that the house, bedecked in ancient plaids, has some weird quirks. The decor in the house has changed only slightly since Queen Victoria and Prince Albert built the castle in the 1850s, and its extremely Scottish energy seems discordant to modern tastes. But apparently the distaste for Balmoral’s interiors goes all the way back to the beginning.
“Critics of ‘Balmorality’ could daily claim that Highland dress and decoration were overworked by the new owners,” wrote journalist Ivor Brown, in his 1955 book Balmoral: The History of a Home. “The new Balmoral was be-tartaned from the linoleum to the roofs of the rooms.” Even Victoria’s friends were less than impressed. Lady Augusta Stanley, one of the queen’s ladies-in-waiting, later wrote that the tartan were “highly characteristic and appropriate but not all equally flatteuse to the eye.
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