num_pages: 399
description: From the mock pageantry of the Highlanders to the carefully stage-managed rediscovery of the Scottish Regalia, this trip was a key event in the creation of romantic Scotland. Behind it all lay the great stage manager, Sir Walter Scott. This was the first visit of a British monarch to Scotland for nearly two hundred years, following only two years after the grim horror of the Radical Insurrection, which saw the last armed rebellion in British history when sixty thousand workers went on strike. The Highland clans that Scott called to Edinburgh were, even as they marched, the subjects of eviction and persecution in their homeland. And yet in this stirring blend of pomp and pageantry, Scott was able to override the grim reality of day-to-day life in a surge of support for a monarch and monarchy, even in England, the subject of ridicule and derision. Prebble brilliantly reveals the rotten heart of corruption, betrayal, and intrigue at the heart of the ceremony of this great occasion, and from it all emerges a vision of Scotland that remains with us today.
language: English
title: The King's Jaunt
titlecomplete: The King's Jaunt
characters: David Stewart of Garth, George Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll, Daniel Terry, Patrick Sellar, George Gunn, Andrew Hardie, David Wilkie, Sir Ranald Macdonald Steuart-Seton, Robert Peel, Robert Mudie, John Baird, George IV of Great Britain and Ireland, John Gibson Lockhart, Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, Adam Ferguson, Walter Scott, John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, Flora MacDonald, Alasdair Ranaldson MacDonell
genres: History, Scotland
ratings_count: 17
places: Scotland
publisher: Birlinn Ltd