As well as donors and sponsorship, funding was also intended to come from constructing the nearby housing development of Knockroon, a planned community along the lines of the Prince's similar venture, Poundbury in Dorset.

The Prince of Wales was in residence at the estate on 8 September 2022, when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, became gravely ill; he was transported by helicopter to Balmoral Castle, where she died later the same day, and he became king.

[2] The house is a category A listed building, described by Historic Environment Scotland as "an exceptionally fine and unspoilt Adam mansion".

[5] A master mason who worked as a contractor at Dumfries House was James Armour, father-in-law of the poet Robert Burns.

[8] With John Bute facing a bill from the death duties of both his father and grandmother, he considered selling the house.

[8] On 27 June 2007, it was announced that a consortium headed by the Prince, and including various heritage charities and the Scottish Government (who contributed £5m), had raised £45 million to purchase the house and contents (along with its roughly 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) estate) and endow a trust for maintaining it.

[8] In 2008, the Great Recession had a major impact on the project, affecting the prospects for the Knockroon development and thus the recouping of the £20 million loan.

My hope, therefore, is that this publication can help to involve a wider audience of supporters by providing an insight to all that happens on this estate and to its even more important outreach work."

In September 2017, the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay welcomed the President of Ireland, Michael Daniel Higgins and the First Lady to Dumfries House and attended a concert celebrating 25 years of Classic FM.

[21] In 2019, the BBC reported that The Prince's Charities Foundation had accepted $202,000 in donations from Quantus Division Ltd, a company that was part of an offshore network managed by Ruben Vardanyan's Moscow investment bank Troika Dialog that moved billions out of Russia.

[22] In October 2022, the King featured in a special edition of the BBC TV programme The Repair Shop filmed at Dumfries House, sharing objects from the collection in need of restoration.

[23] In January 2023, it was reported that Dumfries House would be open to the public as a part of an initiative by the Prince's Foundation to tackle loneliness and isolation in cold weather by providing warm spaces.

[25] Dumfries House is home to several separate education centres where school pupils can visit to learn about topics ranging from science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) to farming and gardening.

In 2022, the MacRobert Trust began funding a new purpose-built farming and rural skills training centre at Dumfries House, where the Prince's Foundation will host events and hands-on workshops for around 1,800 participants each year.

The £20m loan taken out by the Foundation in 2007 was fully disclosed at the time and has since been refinanced and partly paid off.The purchase of the House has not put any of The Prince's twenty charities at risk; indeed they all continue to deliver crucial services and support across a wide range of charitable needs.