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Countryfile is been given unprecedented access to the Queen鈥檚 Balmoral estate.

Matt Baker opens the programme at Glamis Castle, the family home of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother. It is where HM the Queen spent many happy childhood holidays. It is also where her love of the countryside was born, and as Matt finds out it is where she and her family explored the nearby countryside in all weathers.

Ellie Harrison explores the woodland on the Balmoral estate and sees how conservation projects introduced by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are encouraging wildlife.

Anita Rani is on the Western Isles, where the royal family would travel on board the royal yacht Britannia before it was decommissioned. Anita alights on the Isle of Ghiga where the Queen once made an unannounced visit which the locals still remember today.

Adam is back on the Balmoral estate meeting the stockman who looks after the Queen鈥檚 herd of Highland Cattle. He checks out one of the Queen鈥檚 favourite bulls: Smurf. Whilst the Queen might be proud of her cattle, she is even more fond of her horses. Adam catches up with the head of the Balmoral stud to see how the Queen is preserving the bloodline of the estate鈥檚 Highland ponies.

Ellie Harrison joins Balmoral鈥檚 head deer stalker as they go out and about on the estate hoping to spot a monarch of the glen, Ellie鈥檚 first royal stag.

Matt Baker ends the programme at one of the bothies on the estate. He hears about the Royal Family鈥檚 taste for dining outdoors and sees first hand the barbecue designed by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh.