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Ruthie Henshall shares her first-hand experience of staying at the royal family's Scottish residence

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00:00So, you know, you go to Balmoral, what are you expecting versus what you find yourself with?
00:06I didn't know what to expect.
00:09And I certainly didn't expect my own maid, my own personal maid.
00:15I didn't expect somebody to come and tell me they were going to draw the bath for me.
00:20How you like your water?
00:22You know, yeah.
00:23I didn't expect my suitcase to be unpacked.
00:27I didn't know what the weekend was going to bring.
00:33So I didn't know I was going to dinner with them all on the Friday.
00:39It was sort of, of course, once I got there, you know, Edward said to me, oh, tonight we'll be,
00:46you know, doing this.
00:50And then when I knew we were going for a cookout with the royals, with no protection officers, no nothing,
00:59just driving up there.
01:01And they were doing the cooking and the cleaning.
01:04That was surreal.
01:06I mean, it was surreal.
01:07It was like, oh, my goodness, I'm watching them wash up and dry up and I'm helping.
01:16And, you know, the sort of ghost stories that were being told and jumping out at me when I went
01:23to the loo and this kind of thing, was that especially was a family just having a good time.
01:33And then when I was like, oh, my God, I'm going to go to the loo and this kind of
01:33thing.
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