20 JULY 1934, Page 6

The royal visit to Edinburgh has been an unqualified success

and there is a simplicity and compactness about the Palace of Holyroodhouse that gives the impression that the King and Queen are living more than ordinarily among their people. The illuminations and the flowers made a great display. It is almost worth a journey to the Scottish capital to see the Castle. floodlit. The effect is to create what seems literally a castle in the air, for with the hill itself dark and invisible the illuminated walls and battlements seem floating on a sea of blackness. But July evenings in Scotland are light so late that it is near midnight before the full beauty of the scene develops.