LONDON – The King held a rare family dinner with senior royals in Scotland last night. It’s not hard to guess what may have been on the menu for discussion ahead of Prince Harry’s already controversial trip to Britain this weekend.
His Majesty is currently in Edinburgh for what is known as Royal Week, his annual visit to celebrate Scottish culture, community and achievements, and undertook a series of engagements in the capital, along with his wife, Queen Camilla, yesterday. Now it can be revealed that the couple last night hosted three more of the Royal Family’s most senior members to stay at the historic Palace of Holyroodhouse, the Monarch’s official residence north of the border: The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal and the Duke of Edinburgh.
The family enjoyed what is known in royal circles as a rare ‘dine and sleep’, having dinner at the palace and staying over ahead of the morning’s Order of the Thistle service, the annual celebration of the ancient Scottish order of chivalry which the King, Queen, Prince William and Prince Edward will attend.
Prince William – known as the Duke of Rothesay when in Scotland – was in Aberdeen during the afternoon to undertake an engagement on behalf of his Homewards initiative to combat homelessness and then travelled over to Edinburgh to spend the night with his father and family.
Princess Anne and Prince Edward had joined their brother earlier at a garden party for local dignitaries and community stalwarts at the Gothic palace, which has served as the principle royal residence in Scotland since the 16th Century and is steeped in centuries of royal and political intrigue.
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