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That he and his Queen were really welcome there was no doubt. Thunderous cheers went up as the royal party climbed into an open carriage, moved off down Edinburgh's famed Princes Street, with its swank shops on one side and luxurious gardens on the other. Scotland's premier peer, the Duke of Atholl, the only peer in Britain entitled to own a private army, led the way at the head of a troop of Scottish Horse on shaggy Highland ponies. The joggling troops wore the same khaki uniforms, slouch hats and black cocks' feathers worn...
Bottle after bottle of Scotch whiskey was emptied as Edinburgh settled down to its biggest party in years. For Queen Elizabeth, daughter of the Scottish Earl of Strathmore, her homecoming was a triumph. As she reviewed ex-service men, 84-year-old ex-Sergeant George Alexander greeted her with a rich burr: "You're a bonnie lassie. I wish I'd courted you mysel...
...throttle of the royal train as Their Majesties returned to London this week was Engineer Tom Clarke whose regular job is to drive the Coronation Scot, the latest and most lushly appointed British streamlined train. The-famed Flying Scotsman], hitherto the fastest London-Edinburgh train, makes the 392 miles in 7½ hrs. The Coronation Scot has cut this to six hours flat...
...Mightily displeased would Scots have been if Queen Elizabeth had worn the State Crown, the lower part of which she had on week before at the Buckingham Palace Court, for Scotland has its own Crown jewels safely tucked away in Edinburgh Castle...
Many osteopaths on the way to their national convention in Chicago last week understood that King George VI's personal osteopath was to make them a speech and thus put a royal gloss on their rising profession. Dr. W. Kelman Macdonald of Edinburgh, who was the American Osteopathic Association's chief guest, does not belong to the King's medical household. Nearest approach to an osteopath in that prize group of British doctors is the Manipulative Surgeon to the King Sir Morton Smart...