A SCOTTISH COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 18

A SCOTTISH COURT

CORONATION FESTIVITIES

An exchange states that owing to the many engagements of Royalty during the Coronation festivities, the King has decided to hold only three Courts in London, instead of five, and one extra will be held at Holyrood, in July, when Scottish debutantes will be presented. It is stated that no evening Court has been held at Holyrood since the war, and the decision to hold one this year is regarded as a special compliment by the Queen to her countrywomen. The Royal Company of Archers, the King's bodyguard for Scotland, will be on duty in the staterooms, wearing uniforms of green cloth, embroidered with thistles, and cocked hats of black silk with plumes of green feathers. . j

All Empire societies and leagues are making special preparations for the reception and entertainment of, visitors from the Dominions, and mean to encourage a number of small functions rather than immense ones, which would not promote the same kind of sociability or make people so well known to each other,

On.May 4 an evening reception will Ibe "'held-by Lord and. Lady LondonI derry; on May 15 a garden party at Sutton Place, near Guildford, by the Duke and, Duchess of Sutherland; on May 19 a' reception at Broadcasting House; on May 28 a dinner at the Zoological Gardens, which will be floodlit; Qji May 29 a garden party by Lord and Jjady Salisbury at Hatfield. A special steamer will be set apart for visitors at the Naval Review, and there will be reserved seats at the Hendon air display, and at the Empire Day service at St. Paul's Cathedral. Opportunities will be given to the players of games, such as. golf and tennis,-and inquiries may be made at the various offices of the High Commissioners.

So many inquiries have been made already that the authorities have been driven into considering the setting up of a special "Coronation bureau." All accommodation within 100 miles of London has been booked, some people being arranged for as far away as Eastbourne.

Miss Miriam Hopkins, the film actress, dislocated a shoulder and bruised her nose when her car, driven by a chauffeur, came into collision with another, driven by Mrs. Fred Astaire, at Hollywood recently.