NORTHERN IRELAND’S FIRST ROYAL STATUS AWARDED TO HILLSBOROUGH VILLAGE
Northern Ireland s first Royal status awarded to Hillsborough village
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The first village or town in Northern Ireland to receive the rare and honoured title
The village of Hillsborough in County Down will become ‘Royal Hillsborough’ later in 2021, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Rt Hon Brandon Lewis MP has announced today.
Home to Hillsborough Castle, the residence of Her Majesty The Queen and other members of the Royal family when visiting Northern Ireland, it will be the first village or town in Northern Ireland to receive the exceptional title.
The gin is available to buy online at
historicroyalpalaces.com from 2 February, priced at £40, but you d better be quick as the 400 bottles won t be around for long.
Laura McCorry, Head of Hillsborough Castle, said: We’re delighted to have been able to work with the experts at Rademon Estate to make our dream of bottling something of Hillsborough Castle’s essence a reality.
Like the Castle itself, gin is something of a Georgian success story, so it seems particularly fitting that both seem to be enjoying a renaissance in the twenty-first century!
The Queen s Northern Ireland home, Hillsborough Castle
Founder and Head Distiller of the Rademon Estate Distillery, David Boyd-Armstrong, added: