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New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key has offered a rare look inside Queen Elizabeth II’s Scottish country retreat.

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Taken at Balmoral, the royal family’s Highlands estate, the photo shows Key during a “low-key audience”with the casually dressed monarch in her private sitting room. (Of course, not many are able to sport a casual outfit that includes a kilt made of atartan designed in honour of their country estate, made for Balmoral’s first royal occupant, Queen Victoria.)

For keen-eyed royal watchers, the picture is a look into the Queen’s private life, including a prominently displayed portrait of her new great-grandson, Prince George, with his parents, Kate and William, taken by his grandfather Michael Middleton.

Castles, while grand, aren’t known for their central heating, and the British press has been amusing themselves by pointing out the 87-year-old Queen’s“£20” electric heater tucked into her fireplace. (Hasn’t the Queen seen Downton Abbey? Doesn’t she have any plucky chambermaids to build her a fire?)

Key has been accused by New Zealand media of having “foot-in-mouth disease,” last year telling students that David Beckham was “thick as bats–t” and apparently hinting in the spring that New Zealand would come to the aid of South Korea should it be attacked by the North. But the PM, who took office in 2008 and was returned to power in 2011, reportedly stuck to safe topics during the photo-op,chit-chatting with the Queen about that favourite topic of polite converse: the weather.