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Royal protocol was also a factor in planning but was more obvious in official functions, as can be seen in this Order of Ceremonies from the 1964 State Banquet.
Extensive planning did not guarantee a perfect performance. An article printed in The Guardian on 8 October 1964 described Father William’s disappointment with Premier Shaw’s comportment at the banquet:
“Hoot mon, Walter, could you no quaff the cup [the quaich] in one gulp instead of making two swallows of it, when you toasted the Queen at the grand state dinner Wednesday night? ... this was a terrible break and an insult to good Scotch whisky and an outrage to Scottish tradition, which decrees that the draught in the quaich be downed at one loyal gulp when the Sovereign is being toasted in the language of the Garden of Eden.” |
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