The New Student's Reference Work/Balmoral

Bal′moral, a home of the English royal family in Scotland.  It is 926 feet above the sea, on a plain that slopes from a height of 1,437 feet to the River Dee, and lies 45 miles west of Aberdeen.  In 1852 the prince consort, husband of the late Queen Victoria, bought the estate for $160,000, and built a new granite castle in the Scottish baronial style, which cost about $500,000.  The estate now includes about 25,000 acres.