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King Charles greets the Bo\u2019ness Fair Queen, Lexi Scotland, at Kinneil House<\/p>\n
The King met “queen Scotland” as he arrived for his first public engagement in Scotland since his coronation.<\/p>\n
Charles was welcomed by crowds as he arrived at Kinneil House in Bo’ness, Falkirk – the historic home of the dukes of Hamilton – wearing a kilt.<\/p>\n
Among those he greeted was Bo’ness Fair Queen, Lexi Scotland, who was wearing her ceremonial robes and a crown.<\/p>\n
The pair shook hands as the King congratulated Lexi on her achievement, while Lexi and the crowd welcomed him to Kinneil House.<\/p>\n
Lexi said it is “exciting” to have been crowned the newest Bo’ness Queen, adding she enjoyed meeting the King and his entourage.<\/p>\n
She said: “I was quite nervous, but I was also excited to meet him.”<\/p>\n
Lexi was joined by May Garrow, 99, who was crowned the Bo’ness Queen in 1936.<\/p>\n
The occasion marked May’s first time meeting the King.<\/p>\n
She said: “I’ve never actually shook hands with him before. I’ll not wash that hand anymore.”<\/p>\n
Charles asked May if she still owns her dress from when she was crowned the Bo’ness Queen.<\/p>\n
May told reporters: “I’ve still got the dress. Mind you, it was white but it’s a dark creamy colour now. I don’t think I’d get into it now!”<\/p>\n
May turns 100 on February 24, and is excited to receive her message from the King.<\/p>\n
May commented that it was “a nice day”, adding she enjoyed the King’s company and said: “He makes things easy for you to talk.”<\/p>\n
Speaking of Lexi, she added: “She’s had a nice day, and when she’s my age she’ll come back too.”<\/p>\n
Maria Ford plays a vital role in organising the fair, and says they have tried for a royal visit for many years.<\/p>\n
She said: “We pushed and pushed for a royal visit but we just never managed, but now everything’s came together and it’s like the last piece of the jigsaw.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles greets the Bo\u2019ness Fair Queen, Lexi Scotland, at Kinneil House The King met “queen Scotland” as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,518,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-526092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-king-charles-iii","13":"tag-royal-families","14":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115432540986080746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}