The Lord Lyon, accompanied by the Officers of Arms, Sheriff Clerk, Returning Officer, and State Trumpeters issued the Royal Proclamation following the dissolution of Parliament and calling a new one at the Mercat Cross, Edinburgh today.
A great untrumpeted aspect of Royal Proclamations like today's in Edinburgh is our state trumpeters, joined for the first time by a woman - Gerry Goodall, appropriately welcomed by Linlithgow Pursuivant Extraordinary, Professor Gillian Black.
