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Scotland's Linlithgow Palace: Partying like it's 1503

One of the centrepiece events of Scotland's year of Homecoming is taking place this weekend in Linlithgow.

Visitors to Party at the Palace are to be given a taste of life as it would have been in 1503.

This was a momentous year, with James IV marrying Margaret Tudor - and Scotland signing "the Treaty of Perpetual Peace" with England.

Celebrations include an 80-strong procession escorting the "king and his new queen" to Linlithgow Palace.

Read entire article at BBC