3-066-135 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Royal Review of Scottish Volunteers at Edinburgh: The Queen's Carriage at the Saluting Point, 1881. '...great Review, by her Majesty the Queen, of forty thousand Scottish Volunteers, in the Queen's Park, adjacent to Holyrood Palace... It is with sincere regret that we have to acknowledge the extreme disappointment, upon that occasion, of the popular expectations of a splendid holiday spectacle, as the entire pleasure of the vast assembly was spoilt by a continued heavy storm of rain throughout the afternoon...The rain began to fall about two o'clock, and soon became drenching, with a cold north-easterly wind of driving violence. The Queen,...accompanied by the Duchess of Edinburgh and Princess Beatrice, in an open carriage and four, drove up to the Grand Stand, at four o'clock. A Royal salute was fired by a battery of Royal Artillery on Whinny Hill, just above St. Margaret's Loch, and the Royal Standard was unfurled. The Queen's carriage was accompanied, on horseback, by the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.