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...Stranger. Rudi Bing had other tempting dishes on his menu. While some visitors trudged through grey Edinburgh Castle and peered into ancient Holyrood House, others queued up for tickets for the Busch and Griller quartets and the festival favorite, The Three Estates (TIME, Sept. 20, 1948), the Glyndebourne operas (Mozart's COST fan Tutte, Verdi's A Masked Ball) were already sold out, except for the ?2 seats, which were too expensive for the British...
...Royal Mile. On opening day, the clear, crisp morning air throbbed with the wail of bagpipers from the grounds of Edinburgh Castle. By midafternoon, spectators had jammed the "Royal Mile" between Holyrood Palace and Edinburgh Castle to watch the ceremonial parade to dour St. Giles's Cathedral, led by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, in heraldic tabard, looking as if he had stepped off a playing card. In the cavernous cathedral, with a blast of trumpets, the festival was formally opened-a festival that would hear, before it was over, some 1,500 musicians, including seven orchestras, four...
...Duke of Buccleuch wriggled his lean limbs into an archer's uniform of woodland green. So did all the Scottish aristocrats of the Royal Company of Archers, of whom the Duke is Captain-General. They filled their quivers with silver-barbed arrows, stepped into their limousines and rode to Holyrood Palace, there to guard King George and Queen Mary who had come up for Scotland's yearly "drawing room...
...Lord High Commissioner who represents the King-Emperor and gets ?2,000 for his work. This year the Commissioner was John Buchan, 57, famed author, third commoner and first "son of the manse" (minister's son) ever to get the appointment. Lord High Commissioner Buchan stayed at Holyrood Palace, where the town officers of Edinburgh ceremoniously gave him keys to the city (which by custom he handed back at once). Day the Assembly opened, he drove first to St. Giles's Cathedral and then to Assembly Hall, with his wife, purse-bearer, aides-de-camp, ladies-in-waiting...
...garden parties. While the King & Queen sat on their dais and guests strolled round the park, great black clouds rolled in from the north. With a crash the downpour descended. Women screamed, brave men ran. Their Majesties were comparatively safe under their canopy, soon reached the sanctuary of Holyrood Palace under enormous umbrellas held by gallant Scots, but the Duke & Duchess of York got as wet as any commoners. Debutantes wept unrestrainedly, their best dresses ruined...