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The Queen and the Queen Mother (wearing her Sapphire and Diamond Grapes Brooch) attend the annual Braemar Highland Gathering in Braemar, Ballater, Aberdeenshire on this day in 1993. There has been an annual gathering at Braemar, in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park, for over 900 years, and the Queen attended this year’s gathering on the 1st.