A royally good CRUISE

In the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year, we step aboard the yacht Her Majesty has enjoyed two private holidays on

ROBIN MCKELVIE

When the Royal Yacht Britannia and Prince Charles sailed out of Hong Kong in 1997 into the pages of history, Her Majesty The Queen, bade a sad farewell. Farewell to a retired maritime steed who had led her and her family on so many glorious adventures around Scotland’s west coast. It was not long, though, before the British Royal Family had found a stand-in just as grand – a remarkable ship that today anyone can sail on, in the wake of royalty on a luxurious adventure fit for a monarch. The MV Columba on the face of it seems an unlikely stand-in, or she did at least in her years as a 2,112-tonne, 235ft-long, five-deck vessel with a 46ft beam, which was much more used to ferrying passengers and their…

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