Queen's Welcome

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1- 8 1s+2s dance RH across (3 bars) and LH back (5 bars) 1s ending on Men's side and 2s on Ladies' side
9-16 1s lead down the middle and back to Men's side but with Lady on Man's left
17-24 1s+2s dance R&L
25-32 1s+2s set to partners twice and turn 2H to own sides with 1s in 2nd place

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)

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Many country dances of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were given names referring to royalty, notable people, places, or familiar expressions of the time, but surviving documentation does not record why this particular title was chosen. Apart from its appearance in RSCDS Book 4, and the possible late nineteenth-century association with the name Wallace, no confirmed evidence explains either the authorship of the choreography or the reason for the title Queen's Welcome.

If the date sometimes associated with the dance, around 1880, is correct, the reigning British monarch at that time was Queen Victoria, who ruled from 1837 to 1901. It is therefore possible that the title refers to Queen Victoria, but no surviving documentation confirms this connection.

As with a number of traditional country dances preserved by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, the dance itself survives even though details of its original creation and naming have not been clearly documented.

Queen Victoria, Wood Engraving Print, 1880

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