Queen Elizabeth II
The monarch is converting her country residence to be wheelchair accessible
Will the Queen treat herself to more rest soon?
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Will the Queen retire to Balmoral Castle in the future? Your favorite house is about to be converted to make it wheelchair accessible.
Queen Elizabeth II (95) apparently wants to spend more time at her beloved country estate in Scotland in the future. Before moving into Craigowan Lodge, a rustic stone house near Balmoral Castle, Craigowan Lodge is undergoing major renovations. As several insiders have revealed to The Sunplans include equipping it with a special wheelchair lift worth £20,000 (about 24,000 euros).
With this she could easily get to her bedroom in a wheelchair without having to use the stairs. The reason for the wheelchair-accessible conversion is the current limited mobility of the Queen. The insider says she’s currently dependent on a cane and hasn’t been able to walk her beloved corgis recently.
Will this be the Queen’s sanctuary?
There are also plans to install a new security gate, a state of the art intercom system and a set of surveillance cameras at Craigowan Lodge. According to the report, the retreat is the ideal place for the Queen to rest in her 90s.
The Queen normally stays at the seven-bedroom stone house twice a year – every April and a further two weeks in the summer. Her son Prince Charles (73) and Princess Diana (1961-1997) used the property for their honeymoon in 1981.