Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will stay at this remote three-bedroomed shooting lodge on the Balmoral estate to ‘avoid a showdown’ with Prince William and his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge.

The Sussexes have apparently chosen the remote highlands bolthole because it is a short distance by road from the main house at Balmoral, which the Cambridges and the Middleton family moved in to yesterday.

Harry and Meghan chose the shooting lodge, which has 50 beehives in its grounds and where organic honey is made from sought-after highlands heather.

The Sussexes are due to move in for a late summer break within days.

The couple’s plain-clothed police security detail were seen preparing the cottage for their arrival with baby Archie one afternoon this week.

SO14 Royal Protection Squad Range Rover cars were seen parked up at the lodge as security was checked over and preparations for their arrival were made.

Officers from Harry’s team are expected to remain on site for the remainder of the week ready for their arrival.

Harry and Meghan are due to arrive by plane to Aberdeen or Inverness Airport having flown from London.

The young family are likely to be whisked to the property behind blacked out windows and will get there via a network of private estate roads so no one will know they are even there.

They will then be able to drive cross country on a network of tracks and private roads to visit Harry’s family at Balmoral Castle without ever being seen on a public road.

This week, holidaymakers in cars and caravans were being pulled over for driving ‘too slowly’ and interviewed by anti-terror police in marked 4×4 police cars on the only road passing anywhere near the shooting lodge.

On one occasion, an elderly couple who pulled over their car at a passing point to eat their sandwiches were told to move along due to the ‘Royal Family being in residence.’

A Royal source said: “We are expecting the Sussexes imminently. They are expected not to stay for a long while, perhaps a few days to show willing.

‘William and Kate and the children, and the Middleton parents, arrived yesterday and are at the big house (Balmoral).

‘Harry and Meghan do seem to like to be out of the way so the shooting lodge is perfect for them.

‘It will seem a little like they are out in the cold being so remote with the rest of the Royal family either at Balmoral or Birkhall.

‘If the Cambridges leave after a short stay, Harry and Meghan might well stay at the big house.

‘It all seems to be a bit of a juggling act with families treading on eggshells at the moment.

‘The falling out of the Cambridges and Sussexes seems to be quite well documented.

‘It’s not surprising they should want to give each other space. Ultimately, Harry does not want any fuss or stress around his young family.

‘It might be that he waits until William’s children have gone back to school in London and waits until Boris (Johnson) and Carrie have come and gone on the first weekend of September before he makes an appearance.

‘The shooting lodge is where he will stay with Meghan and Archie if, as seems likely, there are any clashes.’

Harry and Meghan’s cosy new home is basic but has a log fire as its centre point.

It is an old hunting lodge used by the Royals over the years to stalk deer.

The surrounding mountains are rich with deer and are often visited by the Royals who picnic on the banks of Loch Muick on the Queen’s Balmoral estate.

The main lodge has three bedrooms. There is a residential block close behind it to the north which has room for Harry’s security team.

It is almost identical in size and design to the farmhouse the Sussexes rented in Oxfordshire before they moved to Frogmore Cottage at Windsor.

The hunting lodge also has, as seen in these images, an enormous bee colony in fifty colourful hives at the foot of the garden.

Highland honey is much sought-after because of the heather the bees collect pollen from.

Dotted around its grounds, CCTV cameras can also be seen on wooden poles covering the entrance roads.

Harry’s father Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall are currently staying at his beloved 53,000 acre Birkhall estate.

The rest of the Royal family stay at the main Balmoral Castle.

The Sussex’s lodge will be their new home for this which is Meghan’s second visit to Balmoral.

It is believed she came for the first time in the autumn of 2017 before the couple married.

It seems the couple may have listened to public opinion in their choice of this remote and humble lodge.

The ‘eco-warrior’ pair have been criticised recently for flying to exotic holidays on private jets.

Harry was first a guest at a climate conference in Italy.

The pair then turned up in Ibiza by private jet and stayed at a resort where homes rent for up to £120,000 a week.

The pair then flew on friend Elton John’s plane to spend time at his villa on the Cote D’Azur.

It is believed that Meghan and Harry have been at Windsor since then preparing for their Highlands jaunt.

A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace declined to comment.

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