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Bishop's unethical, drinking drop of liquor in Queen's house (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

balmoral

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'queen's house' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'bishop's unethical drinking drop of liquor' is the wordplay.
'bishop' becomes 'B' (chess abbreviation).
'unethical' becomes 'amoral' (I've seen this before).
'drinking' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'drop of' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'liquor' is 'l'.
'amoral' placed around 'l' is 'almoral'.
'b'+'almoral'='BALMORAL'

'in' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for balmoral that I've seen before include "Bonnet" , "Holiday residence in Scotland of British royal family" , "Royal holiday residence on the River Dee" , "Royal residence - walking shoe - Scottish military hat" , "Queen's castle" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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