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...where Bonnie Prince Charlie held court 200 years ago, flocked 500 of Scotland's socially elect to the first royal court Scotland had seen in 34 years. On guard was the Royal Company of Archers in green cloth uniforms embroidered with golden thistles. The King now in his scarlet, gold & blue uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Guards, but still with the Order of the Thistle, the Queen wearing a gold brocade gown and a diamond-&-ruby tiara * received over 200 Scottish debutantes who were thus spared the trouble of a trip to London...
...service, watched the procession from a car outside the Chapel; the Duke of Windsor, a Garter Knight of 26 years' standing.* In a box high on the north wall of the Chapel, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, dressed in pink, gazed on the sea of blue, scarlet and gold beneath them, soon spotted their mother's father the Earl of Strathmore. This was the first time in 600 years that a father and his daughter were attending a Garter Service...
...went off with unction and dispatch. Crowds as dense as those for the Coronation itself jammed the Mall from Buckingham Palace to the Horse Guards Parade back of Whitehall, packed solidly the rim of that vast parade ground. Forming three sides of a hollow square of bulbous bearskins and scarlet coats stood eight companies, chosen from the five regiments of the Brigade of Guards...
Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh. The massed bands and drums were in the centre, and, flashing silver, blue and scarlet, in the southeast corner mounted troops of the Royal Horse Guards and Life Guards...
...this because it wears a blue tunic instead of the scarlet of the other regiments of the Household Brigade...