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Author’s NoteGeorge IV’s visit to Scotland in 1822 was a triumphant success. His Majesty wore full Highland dress in the Royal Stewart tartan.
The King left London in The Royal George on August 10th and four days later in pouring rain at about two o’clock in the afternoon the anchor was dropped off Leith Harbour.
He stayed outside Edinburgh at Dalkeith Palace with the sixteen-year-old Duke of Buccleuch and showed remarkable zest for a man of sixty for the drawing rooms, the levees and the balls.
‘Marriage by Declaration’ or ‘Irregular Marriage’ before witnesses was legal in Scotland until the Act was repealed in 1949.
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