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a monsoon storm on the coast of an island in the Indian Ocean. But this is not a normal tropical island. This is Madagascar. Once joined to Africa, Madagascar has been isolated for millions of years, and it has evolved a set of wildlife all of its own. More than 80% of it is found nowhere else on Earth. This strange island is split in two by a line of mountains running its length. The eastern slopes are drenched with rain and cloaked in jungle across these mountains to the western side. And you are in another world to live here. You would need to cope with a landscape that is bone dry for most of the year, a land where rain is fleeting and quite unpredictable on yet Madagascar's arid lands are full of life. Everything that lives here has its own fight for survival and resources. Ahs, the seasons swing by in this eccentric land, some of the strategies wildlife has developed are quite extraordinary. Hidden away in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, a royal retreat twice the size of the city of Manchester, the one place on earth where Queen Elizabeth can truly escape ball moral here. Far from the public eye, the queen and the royal family attempt to live like the rest of us. But the vast estate has witnessed some of the most dramatic moments in royal history. On some visitors have found this holiday home a tough place to be. In this series, we reveal how the lives of the queen and her family have been shaped by this most secret royal home.