Queen has …に出席するd more parish sales than any other person, says chaplain
The 大臣 of the church which the Queen …に出席するs in Scotland has said she has …に出席するd more parish sales than any other living person.
The Rev Ken MacKenzie, 62, is the Church of Scotland 大臣 of the Braemar and Crathie parish in Aberdeenshire ? which the 王室の family …に出席する on trips to Balmoral.
Speaking ahead of the platinum jubilee 祝賀s this 週末, he said: “She has been to more parish summer sales than any other living individual. I don’t know if she ever 行方不明になるs any.
“If anyone shows a かかわり合い to a 地元の parish, then it is her. She’ll have been to every one in the last 80 years.”
The Queen has travelled to Balmoral for about 80 years, with the 王室の family’s 協会 with the area dating 支援する to around 1840.
Mr MacKenzie believes it is this dedication and 利益／興味 in the 地元の community that endears her to the people who live there.
“She has a very の近くに 関与 with the community.” Mr MacKenzie 追加するd. “She will know people as she goes around the 広い地所. She bumps into all sorts of people and she will make a point of asking people about their families.
“She will often just stop and ask people who have some sort of link with the 広い地所, she will recognise them and ask how things are.”
Mr MacKenzie was 任命するd as 大臣 of the parish in 2005 に引き続いて a period of time in Budapest.
He became the Queen’s 国内の chaplain in 2007.
While the church is not hosting any events to 示す the jubilee, Mr MacKenzie said they have worked closely with the community to 確実にする the occasion is 示すd.
The reverend said the Queen comes to Balmoral 予定 to the sense of 安定 it 供給するs. He said: “She’s been coming for here all her life. Seventy years itself is a long time.
“By the time she was at the 載冠（式）／即位（式） 70 years ago, she already was familiar with this parish. It is a place that she knows 井戸／弁護士席 and has come to every year and sees it as a place where she can 残り／休憩（する） and relax and 反映する, and just as we have been able to 反映する on her long life and long service.”
Mr MacKenzie 賞賛するd the Queen for 存在 a “constant” over her 統治する.
“This is a parish where not much has changed in some ways.
“She comes here, in part because she can she can see things that are familiar and are solid have been around for a while.”
Mr MacKenzie 追加するd: “All sorts of things have changed. But she has been a constant and there’s something rather special about that.”
