When opening Donaldson's Hospital in 1850, Queen Victoria is said to have remarked that she would have easily swapped the Palace of Holyroodhouse for William Playfair's creation and now Edinburgh ...

Designed by renowned Edinburgh architect William Henry Playfair and built in the 1840s, the former school created by publisher James Donaldson has been transformed into an exclusive collection of ...

It is a far cry from the happier days of the school, which was founded in 1851 as Donaldson’s Hospital by James Donaldson, and was originally intended to provide for poor children.