This ceremony was carried out by the queen herself injune when she came to be in residence as the traditional preliminary to her summer at balmoral and again it was the fifth regiment, the 5th battalion of the royal regiment of scotland who were here as guard of honour on that occasion. and here they are again. this is a wonderful building which started life as a monastery founded by king david the first and you still have the ruins of the old monastic buildings as you probably saw earlier. then it was really built by james the fourth who is a stuart king of course married margaret tudor and the palace was established really in his time at the beginning of the 16th century. and in fame and fable it was the