Carrie Symonds will stay at Balmoral with Boris Johnson when he travels to the Queen’s summer residence in the coming weeks.
The Prime Minister’s girlfriend, 31, will attend the traditional weekend at the monarch’s Scottish estate, sources told the PA news agency.
Every year the Queen spends the summer at Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, where she is joined by other members of the royal family – and traditionally hosts the prime minister for a weekend in September.
It is thought that Ms Symonds will be the first unmarried partner of a sitting PM to stay at Balmoral.
While Carrie will enjoy a trip to Scotland, she won’t be attending the G7 summit next week in Biarritz due to work commitments.
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Instead, she will be flying to the US to attend meetings as part of her role as an adviser to Oceana, the Mail on Sunday reports.
A source told The Mail on Sunday: “There were many discussions over whether it would be right for Carrie to get an invitation to Balmoral, but in the end it was decided that it’s 2019, the world has changed and progressed.
“It is very much on the cards that she will meet the Queen and she and Boris will be there for as long as the Brexit discussions allow him to be. The stay will depend on how long is necessary or indeed possible.
“She won’t be at G7, but then Samantha Cameron didn’t ever join David when he was in office, so it’s not out of the ordinary for the PM’s partner not to attend.”
Former prime minister David Cameron once said there was not much “chillaxing” – chilling out and relaxing – at the castle, with the royals spending their time on outdoor pursuits.
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But Ms Symonds, who last week gave a speech on protecting the environment, may find herself at odds with the royals, whose pastimes famously include blood sports.
The public relations expert, who lives in Downing Street with Mr Johnson, 55, resigned as director of communications for the Conservatives last year and is now a senior adviser at Oceana, a US-based environmental campaign group.
Baroness Thatcher reportedly found the stay at Balmoral painful, with an observer writing that a “weekend in the country with aristocrats who enjoy riding, shooting, sports and games is Thatcher’s idea of torture”.
However Cherie Blair revealed in her autobiography how her son Leo was conceived at Balmoral when she left her contraception at home out of embarrassment during her annual weekend stay there with then-PM husband Tony.
At royal residences, servants meticulously unpack luggage for guests, and Mrs Blair said: “In 1998 – I had been extremely disconcerted to discover that everything of mine had been unpacked.
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“Not only my clothes, but the entire contents of my distinctly ancient toilet bag with its range of unmentionables.
“This year I had been a little more circumspect, and had not packed my contraceptive equipment out of sheer embarrassment.
“As usual up there, it had been bitterly cold, and what with one thing and another…”
