Just before Hogmanay 2004, Prince Charles, as he was then, whisked his long-term partner Camilla Parker-Bowles off to Scotland for a romantic break.
Their destination was Birkhall, Charles’s beloved private bolthole on the Balmoral estate. And it was there, on a frosty night in front of a roaring fire, where Charles ‘sank to one knee in front of the woman he loved and popped the question’.
It is little surprise that the King chose to propose at Birkhall, a place