Villagers flocked to greet the King and the Dufftown Pipe Band performed in anticipation of his arrival.
visited the site, which now has 12 affordable homes built on it, and met residents, conversing in French with some of them.He was welcomed by local school and nursery pupils, who greeted him wearing homemade crowns and waving Scottish and British flags.During a walkabout at the village green, an elderly man asked the King to wish his wife a happy birthday.
A woman shouted:"We love you King Charles", and another woman showed him a blue manicure and asked:"Do you like my nails?" Alasdair Sharp, 79, a member of the Glenlivet Development Trust board, wore a kilt for the visit of the King, whom he described as a neighbour."He was at Braemar Games recently. To come to our little community is pretty important, we are neighbours."There was a time after the war when there was two petrol stations, four pubs, six shops, but it's all been taken over."We are now a Dark Sky Area, we are hoping to develop a camping and caravan site.
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