The Fife Arms, Braemar, Scotland.
“The Queen just knocked on the door during the renovations and asked if she could have a nosy,” says someone very important at The Fife Arms, which in one glorious, tartan-flavoured swoop has become one of the world’s most dazzling hotels. “I didn’t quite know how to ask her to wear a hard-hat.” The Fife Arms, sitting there all majestically in the tiny town of Braemar on the edge of Scotland’s glittering Highlands, is Her Maj’s local, if a handful of
