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This is Luxury, Edinburgh
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EDINBURGH was excited. People were higher than the little "box
kite machine" the Wright brothers had coaxed into the air at Kitty
Hawk four days earlier.
A flying machine? That was nothing compared to what the Capital's
citizenry were about to witness: the birth of one of Europe's finest
hotels . . . a residence of elegance and grandeur fit for royalty.
They had watched its great rose-tinted Corinthian facade rise for
several years, and now - just before Christmas, 1903 - as the first
stiff-collared customers passed through its stately portals, it was
the only subject of conversation in ...
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