SCOTTISH CAPITAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19315, 4 May 1937, Page 2

SCOTTISH CAPITAL.

CORONATION FESTIVITY

EVENING COURT PLANNED

EDINBURGH, March 13

The Scottish capital is planning a season of festivity on a scale xuiknown in the northern country since the crowning of George V in 1911. Chief among the high events in Scotland's celebration of the Coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth will be the evening Court at the Palace of Holyrood House in July. Such a function lias not taken place at Ilolyrood since the war, though in other years when King George and Queen Mary visited Edinburgh they held afternoons, when the presentations, by the King's command, were considered equivalent to presentation at .Court. That the Court of Ilolyrood on this occasion is to bo an evening Court is taken as possibly due, to the fact the Queen is- a Scotswoman, and is desirous to gratify her countrywomen in enabling them to have the Court at Edinburgh organised on the same lines as those of London.

King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra made the only Court they held at Ilolyrood an afternoon affair, it was ever afterwards referred to as "The Bonnet Court." -King George and Queen .Mary held one fulldress Court in the old Stuart Palace at the beginning of their reign, but for some reason their Courts in Edinburgh were afterwards always held in the afternoon.

In any event the'Scottish Court will differ from those of London in several details. The Royal Company of Archers, the King's bodyguard of Scotland, will be on duty in the State Booms in their uniforms of green cloth embroidered with golden thistles and cocked hats of black t-'ilk, with a plume of green cocktail feathers.

The two Pages of Honour who attend the King and Queen will wear different dress, 100, with single-breasted frocks of green poplin and three-cornered hats I rimmed with green feathering.

Edinburgh is planning her scheme ol exterior decoration after an examination of the carnival methods of several continental towns. In place of hunting and other artificial ornament. Princes street is likely to be garlanded with millions of real flowers. Triumphal arches will be placed at several points, both in Princes and other streets. State EntryIt is hoped Their .Majesties will make a State entry into the capital with an escort of Life Guards, and that the King will receive the city keys actually on the road, instead of at the railway station, as in previous Royal visits. On Coronation Day a special service will be held in St. Giles.' Cathedral, followed by a distribution of gifts to scholars and the aged poor. Entertainments are also to l>e arranged for the. Prime Ministers of the Dominions, and for troops from overseas who are expected to visit Edinburgh.