In 1849 Queen Victoria became the first Patron of the Braemar Gathering. Today the Royal Family continues to enjoy this annual event, which includes such spectacles as caber-tossing, stone-putting and highland dancing. The large crowds which attend each year salute their monarch as Chieftain of the Gathering. The Queen and her son and daughter-in-law (whose Scottish titles are The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay) are seen here at the 2006 Gathering.