Mitchell, Ian (2004). Scotland's Mountains Before the Mountaineers. Luath Press. p.63. ISBN 0946487391. I had no idea that King Charles was a published children’s book author. It was only while shopping for books to celebrate the coronation that I discovered this book and some of his other work. This is a funny, adventure story written by the King himself in 1980, when he was Prince of Wales. Finally, all is ready and the Old Man appears in his tartan dressing gown, ready to step into the bath. But, as he jumps in, he realises that the water is freezing and his squeals echo round the loch. He tells Maudie that he will have to wait for a bath until he has found a way of heating the water, and pulls the plug on his full bath. The story ends by saying that the old man was secretly rather pleased not to go to London. "He couldn't think of anywhere more special to be," concludes the storyteller, "than to be living at the foot of Lochnagar."

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The Call of Lochnagar (2023)". wisemusicclassical.com. Wise Music Classical. 2023 . Retrieved 31 August 2023.In 2007, National Youth Ballet of Great Britain received permission from the Prince of Wales to create a new ballet based on the story. With choreography by Drew McOnie and a commissioned score by Nigel Hess, the ballet received its première at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 14 October 2007 and was performed from 24 to 27 October at Leatherhead Theatre in Surrey. Plot The poet Lord Byron spent time in the area in his youth, [19] and wrote the poem, Lachin y Gair (also known as Dark Lochnagar), which also forms the basis of a song which would eventually be composed by Beethoven. The old man loses his grip while attempting to scale the Lochnagar cliff and falls into the loch, where he meets "lagopus Scoticus," a "freshwater variant of Neptune". The man and lagopus Scoticus converse using bubbles which display their thoughts in written text and go hunting for "Loch-haggis" in a "sea-rover" underwater vehicle. After the hunt, the old man "feast[s] on Loch-haggis and suffer[s] terribly from wind," before going to sleep beside the loch. a b c Townsend, Chris (30 March 2011). Scotland. Cicerone Press Limited. p.265. ISBN 9781849653534 . Retrieved 15 March 2018.

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The story of the old man of Lochnagar was one Prince Charles had told some years earlier to entertain his brothers, Andrew and Edward, when they were young. The book was published in 1980 in aid of The Prince's Trust charity. The Old Man of Lochnagar is a 1980 children's book written by King Charles III, at that time the Prince of Wales, and illustrated by Sir Hugh Casson. [2] The story revolves around an old man who lives in a cave in the cliffs surrounding the corrie loch under the Lochnagar, a mountain which overlooks the royal estate at Balmoral in Scotland where the Royal Family spend much of their summer holidays. [3]

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The Honours of Scotland". sco.org.uk. Scottish Chamber Orchestra. 1 July 2023 . Retrieved 31 August 2023. Donald Bennett, ed. (1985). The Munros, SMC Hillwalkers' Guide. Scottish Mountaineering Trust. p.122. ISBN 0-907521-13-4.