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Originally Posted by cardist
Clan tartans were invented by the Victorian English, who had a romanticised notion of the Highlands. Bernie
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Well that was a statement that I just had to check up on, but it turns out that y'are right. The Plaid is ancient, but not Clan specific until Victorian times. There were uniform tartans used my the British military dating a bit earlier in the Georgian period (Waterloo an' all that), but they were not clan associated.
My ol' Grandpa always swore that he was fully entitled to wear his Royal Stewart kilt (as he did often) because he could trace his ancestry back to Bonny Prince Charlie, and I've toyed with the idea of getting one myself. BUT ... I've now just learned that Bonny Prince Charlie was a Stuart, not a Stewart, and the Royal Stewart Tartan was designed for and registered to Queen Elizabeth II. ....
RIP Grandpa, y'ol fraud.
