Evening star., 1912-11-21
AGAIN AT THE FORE
King George to Show Special
Favor to Edinburgh.
PLEASING TO THE "SCOTS"
Holyrood Palace Restored to It's
Original Status.
HIS'RECENT VISIT TO THE CITY
Residence Of Scottish King Falls
Into Decay, But Change
Is in View.
HIs'RECENT VISIT TO THE CITY
respondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON, November Is, 1912.
For nearly a hundred years British
monarchs have sadly neglected Edin-
burgh, their Scottish capital, and no mod
ern sovereign has had court there but
King George, who, with the queen, liv-
ened up Holyrood Palace and the old
gray city after the coronation. The king
is now credited with an intention to pay
more attention to Edinburgh. and 1 un-
derstand that it is planned to restore to
Scotland some of the ancient glories in
which it rejoiced
Even Queen Victoria who spent so
| much time in Scotland gave Edinburgh
but little of the light of her countenance.
| and Scottish society. once so virile, SO
full Of literary flavor. OF scientific and
social interest, has dwindled and died
down. London claims its peers and no
BILE DANES, it's scholars and it's artists
alike, and the magnificent boulevard of
Princes street. which even a Partisan
| will acknowledge as one of the most
superb in Europe. serves only as a prom
enade for tourists.
| Not since George " stayed and held a
court at Holyrood has the ancient pal
ace been adequately used as the home of
| the monarchs of these islands. Queen
Victoria forty years ago spent few
nights there. and King Edward stayed
one night only in his nine-year reign.
! The late queens visit was informal to
q degree, and was as far as being as
much one Of state as the last time she
was in ireland. Tactful as was King
| Edward, he failed in Scotland just where
| King George will succeed.
Scots Liking for Color.
| The Scots love brilliant spectacles
They have an innate liking for color and
| the splendor of dress and arms. It Ii
| an inheritance from the days ere it was
realized how full of beauty the northern
kingdom is, and the country and it's peo.
pie were regarded alike as rude and saw,
| age to the eye Of the cultured southerner
! King Edward went there with Queer
| Alexandra, and at HolyroOd in 1903 hao
i q drawing room. His majesty was ir
mauve with toque, and, of course
| looked as always. most charming. Those
| invited to the function wore anything
/ they pleased and the result was far from
| brilliant. Such gathering dare not have
been seen in Dublin. AT the time ad-
| verse comments were made, and the
| scene was contrasted with the stay made
by George Nv in 1892.
| That king had an eye for the pic
lturesque, and though much that was done
would to the more cultivated taste of to-
day seem crude and out of place, 1t GER
| tainly served for the generation. The
fourth George, whose forefathers had for
/ hidden the kilt to the clans, blossomed
| into Highland dress of Stewart tartan,
and must have looked an imposing figure,
for he was heavily built. But he drove
into Edinburgh in full state. the lord high
constable of Scotland riding beside him
in robes and coronet. At Holyrood George
| w held not only a levee, but court. and
$4,000 attended the one and 5000 the other.
His present majesty did not face SO huge
a throng. The invitations were limited to
under ,OGO to the court, though the gar
den party. which was pleasant novelty,
was attended by far more.
King George and Queen Mary have
done most gratifying thing in restor-
| ing .Holyrood Palace to its historic
| status as the capitular residence of the
Scottish king. Long neglected and al
lowed willfully to tumble to ruin, Holy
rood still means much to the Scot.
Islands Gray and Silent"
1.-THE palace of Holyrood," writes Stew
enson, "has been left aside in the growth
Of Edinburgh, and stands gray and silent
| in a workman's quarter and among brew
cries and gas works. 1t is house Of
many memories Great people of yore.
kings and queens, buffoons and grave am
bassadors, played their stately farce for
plotted, dancing has lasted deep into the
night, murder has been done in it's cham
bers. There Prince charles held his
phantom levees, and in very gallant
manner represented a fallen dynasty fol
some hours.
Now, all these things Of clay are
mingled with the dust. The kings
| crown itself is shown for cd to the
vulgar, but the stone palace itself has
outliyed changes For fifty weeks togeth
| or than a show for tOIlriS SITS
and a museum for old furniture: but
on the fifty first, behold! the palace re-
awakened and mimicking it's past. The
lord commissioner a kind of stage SOW.
coach and six and Gathering escort come
and go before the gate at night, the
windows are lighted up, and It's neal
| neighbors, the workmen, may dance In
their houses to the palace music.
And since Stevenson wrote those words
| even the lord commissioners have re.
fused to stay in the palace. but have be-
! taken themselves to modern hotels, ano
| there have been. lawsuits over the very
| tapestry on the walls. King George and
queen Mary are changing all that, as
they hope to change much more in the
inter-rela tionships of this imperial race
King Edward and Queen Alexandra did
| not make the palace their headquarters
| but fell back on the greater comforts OF
the princely home of the Duke Of Buc'
cleuch, at Dalkeith.
Deny Themselves Comforts.
/ The present king and queen stayed
there and denied themselves the greater
comforts offered by their rich subjects.
1t is all part of the kings thoroughness.
which was exemplified when he stayed a
| week in Dublin Castle, rather than at
the vice regal lodge secluded in the park.
| He aims at making the crown the visible
bond of all parts of the empire. Hence. in
| turn, his state visits to Ireland, to Scot
| land and to India.
His majesty has an affection for Scot
| land which almost recalls that Of his
i grandmother, Queen Victoria. During
| his long stay there after his father S
| death he felt at home, leading the fam
i liz, life he loves and which in Eugiand