Royal Family: Pretty beach named one of UK's best so beautiful the Queen 'has her own secret entrance'

Published date14 August 2022
The famous beach has constantly been voted as the ‘Best Beach in the UK’ by travel writers, however the Queen reportedly has picked out a private spot for herself away from the public. The Daily Express reported that the secret passage was "given" to Her Majesty by the 8th Earl of Leicester

Royal commentator Richard Eden, writing for The Mail+, quoting Jake Fiennes, director of conservation at Holkham Hall, wrote: "The Queen has her own private entrance to one of her favourite beaches. Thomas Coke, 8th Earl of Leicester, who owns Holkham Estate in Norfolk, has given Her Majesty a ‘more discreet way to enter the reserve’ when she wants to walk the dogs."

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The pathway isn't accessible to public and is set away from the typical tourist beach at Holkham. Richard claims: "He [Jake Fiennes] adds that whenever the monarch needs a rest, she 'sits a mile and a half down from the main beach so as not to be seen by the public'."

The Norfolk beach has often been the setting of days out in videos and documentaries involving the royal family. Most recently, Prince Louis recently celebrated his fourth birthday with a visit to the sandy dunes, captured in sweet photos by Kate Middleton.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge also previously chose to feature Holkham Beach in a video to mark their tenth wedding anniversary last year. But the royal link to Holkham stretches even further back as the Queen and the late Duke of Edinburgh used to take their children to the beach when they were at Sandringham.

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