Even kings go on vacation, and kings Charles III I can not wait. Once the glories of the coronation have been archived and he has returned to his usual commitments, His Majesty is organizing his summer holidays, but he will not spend them all between the much-loved estate of Highgrove House, in Gloucestershire, Balmoral and Sandringham, as usual: the king will even a few days in Transylvaniaone of his favorite places, even if much less talked about than the royal residences.
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According to the Daily Mail, the details of the trip would have already been defined. AND Charles III will leave alone, without his beloved wife Camilla. There’s no need to be mean. The king hasn’t already tired of his queen, obviously, but he needs her space, like anyone else, and since he frequented Transylvania he found a peace he hadn’t known until then, so much so that he even bought a cottage in Romania . It is located in the Zálan Valley, in a rural setting. Carlo has also invested here, renovating a castle that is now a hotel, the Transylvania Castle, and the prices aren’t even exaggerated, just over one hundred euros for one night.
Three hours drive from the nearest airport, the cottage is located in arural area, where the horse is still widely used for peasant activities and modernity has not yet taken over. A place punctuated by slow rhythms, those preferred by the king, who has found here a place similar to his character since his first visit, dating back to 1993.
That’s why King Charles III loves Transylvania
«In Transylvania he is a man at peace»he said about him at Mail John Akeroyd, British botanist very close to Charles, who often traveled to Romania with the king when he was still Prince of Wales, once a year for twenty years. “He has a little place outside to sit, he’s just wonderful; he is probably working hard, but there he is able to relax ». Tranquility aside, King Charles also loves these places because they remind him of his childhood: “This is the landscape of my children’s books, it really is the Brothers Grimm! A mosaic of woods, meadows, pastures and arable fields», he would have said to Akeroyd one day, during one of their walks.
In short, an irresistible attraction, which however could also be genetic. Yes, because Charles III has a distant relationship with Vlad the Impaler, ie Vlad III of Wallachia, the count who inspired Bram Stoker to create his most famous character, Count Dracula. A descent through the great-grandmother Mary of Teck, who married King George V. To reveal it, a few years ago at the Telegraph, Carlo himself, who would be very proud of his origins. Who, after all, isn’t? And if there is such a character in the middle…
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Source: Vanity Fair
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