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Royal
Yacht Britannia
Ocean
Terminal, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 6JJ.
Tel. +44 (0) 131 555 5566.
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By
Kirsten
Griew
The famous Royal Yacht Britannia is moored at Edinburgh's port
at Leith. Having travelled over one million miles, the yacht was
decommissioned in 1997 after 44 years of service. Today visitors
can view rooms once used by the Royal Family on journeys across
the globe.
Britannia
was the 83rd royal yacht, the first having belonged to Charles
II in the 17th century. She was used by the Queen and her family
to maintain contact with other parts of the Commonwealth and the
world, as well as for holidays and honeymoons. The yacht acted
as a kind of floating palace, with banqueting halls and reception
rooms:
on
every voyage 45 members of the royal household would join a crew
of over 230, which included chefs and caterers, as well as the
Royal Marines Band.
After
the wavering allegiances of Sir Eustace Maxwell, the castle was
returned to the Scots in 1356 and rebuilding work began, with
much of today's remains dating from the late 15th century. In
1544 the castle was besieged again, but hostilities between the
English and the Scots calmed down after the union of the crowns
in 1603, and in 1634 the Nithsdale Lodging was built inside the
castle by Robert Maxwell, the first Earl of Nithsdale. Sadly for
Maxwell, the castle was not safe for long. In 1640 it suffered
badly under the attack of an army of Covenanters and the damage
was never repaired.
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