The King and Queen have been enjoying some holiday time in Scotland, but all the Palace talk is of a spring tour to the USA. After the welcome announcement late last year that His Majesty could scale

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JOHN DOWLAND IS MY NAME: musician, composer, greatest lute player of my age in Europe, some say, when in England Elizabeth and James were on the throne. I died in 1626 when I was 63 and was buried on