PART 1 by JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE The stories of Queen Victoria’s pipers are well known and there is no need to repeat them here, but there were several more pipers, perhaps less well known, who were employed by other members of Queen Victoria’s family. The young queen’s visit to Taymouth […]
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Duke’s letter to pipers for the online Atholl Gathering / Drum Major required / Balmoral School
This year’s Atholl Gathering will be held online – as we predicted here a couple of weeks ago. Bruce Murray, the 12th Duke of Atholl, has personally prepared an invitation [pictured] to competiting pipers. He writes: “My family and the Atholl Highlanders have great pleasure in extending an invitation to […]