VISIT TO SCOTLAND

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 183, 6 July 1937, Page 7

VISIT TO SCOTLAND

ROYALTY WELCOMED. CEREMONIAL AT EDINBURGH. ENTHUSIASTIC CROWDS.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received July 6, 8.5 a.m LONDON, July 5. Their Majesties, who are paying a State visit to Edinburgh, were ceremonially welcomed at the Princes Street station. The Scots Guards furnished the guard of honour and tho Castle guns fired a salute. Mr Walter Elliot (Secretary of State for Scotland) presented the Lord Provost, who in the presence of the Lynn King of Arms, in his tabard, and the councillors and magistrates in their robes, handed over the two great silver keys of “Y’our good city of Edinburgh.” The keys were borne on a velvet cushion, which the King touched and remitted them in accordance with ancient custom.

Crowds filled the decorated streets en route to Holvrood House and troops lined the thoroughfares. Kilts, tain and tartans added a patriotic touch. An open landau drawn by Windsor greys conveyed Their Majesties and tlie Princesses, who were escorted by a troop of Scots Greys in scarlet and Scottish Horse mounted on shaggy hill ponies and wearing khaki slouch hats with cocks’ feathers (their old South African uniform, last seen when Edward Vi I went to Edinburgh in 1903). The King wore an Admiral’s uniform with the green ribbon of the Order of the Thistle and the Queen was dressed in forget-me-not blue. The children wore rose pink. This is the first time for 370 years that a Scottish Queen has entered the Scottish capital. On their arrival at Holy rood House Their Majesties and the Princesses, under the eyes of thousands on Salisbury Crags, inspected the Royal Archers draw up in the Palace garden. The Achers wore green and crimson piped uniforms with arrows in their belts, flat eagle-feathered caps ami carried six-foot bows.

Their Majesties later reviewed 40,000 troops who lined the route of the procession. “Ye’re a noble lassie,” cried tho crowd to the Queen. Their Majesties will entertain Scottish dignitaries at a dinner party tonight.