While on the subject of launches (see below), the blog has just been told that Edinburgh’s Mulroy restaurant, which we mentioned here, was officially launched on Sunday.
In the last blog, we pointed out that The Mulroy was owned by a Hungarian aristocrat called Clemens Hoss-d’Estenfeld Macdonald.
Naturally, with a pedigree like that you can’t just launch your restaurant with some old local radio DJ or an X Factor also ran. You need something a bit more classy.
Clemens ruffled through his address book and got HRH the Princess Yvonne of Hesse and her son, the Prince Christoph of Hesse, to cut the ribbon.
Surely this makes The Mulroy the only Edinburgh restaurant to ever be opened by members of the German royal family?