Some might find Balmoral ghastly kitschy, but certainly the Fifes displayed outright bad taste when they built their nearby hunting retreat,
Mar Lodge, in a strange mixture of granite and Elizabethan half-timbering and with very unseemly proportions. It really looks like a Transylvanian McMansion or something the Kaiser could have built. And very out of place against the backdrop of the Grampians.
If they were so alienated from local customs in the architecture department, I presume they didn't take any interest in the fact that their estate was one of the last pockets of Gaelic-speakers in Aberdeenshire, with 46 % still speaking Gaelic as late as 1891, or?