Positively crackling with culture and heaving with history this splendid city has long been the realm of sovereigns, intellectual heavyweights, and leaders of finance but with the ever-growing summer Fringe Festival and the recent explosion of über-cool bars, clubs, restaurants and hotels Edinburgh has now become a hot weekend haunt for PYTs and fashionistas too.
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Apparently, Oprah swooped to interview another self-made billionaire and fellow wonder woman, J.K. Rowling. The story goes that two of the world's richest self-made women took tea in room 652 of the elegant Edinburgh Balmoral Hotel - now dubbed the "Harry Potter Suite" as it's where Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
The Balmoral has majestic revolving door, complete with kilted footman; the food was dainty, the atmosphere was certainly going to be grand.
The opulent Palm Court is just gorgeous, the high-ceilings and harp music evoking a lovely atmosphere of time-honoured allure. We soon settled into a discreet and cosy booth for an A-list afternoon indulging in two of my favourite things - champagne and cakes! The cute crustless sandwiches were divine and the cakes, especially the Heather Honey Scones, had me in raptures. I can totally understand why J.K. decided to stay here for months - I would never leave if I had the promised of these heaven-sent scones every day!
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