Here's one for all you experts, and the dreaded 'right to wear issue' rears it's ugly head once again. Royal Stewart is regarded as a 'universal' tartan because, as all clansmen can wear the tartan of their chief, subjects of the British Crown can wear the tartan of their sovereign (the Queen/ King is designated 'Ard Righ' (Chief of Chiefs) Apparently King George V proclaimed that "My tartan can be worn by all my family" - taken to mean all his subjects. Now I have an old kilt in the tartan called 'Stuart Prince Charles Edward' which is a variant of Royal Stewart, and I just wondered, is this considered the same as Royal Stewart and therefore a 'universal' tartan or not ? I can't see it being regarded as a Stewart/Stuart clan tartan as it commemerates Bonnie Prince Charlie, and nearly all the clans followed him regardless of wether they were Stewarts or not (in fact my name is Hume, and the Hume's of Argathy were very closely involved with the Stewarts, eventually becoming the family 'Hume Stewart' and emigrating to North Carolina in the aftermath of Culloden. I feel that as a variant of Royal Stewart it is a universal tartan, so there's no issue with me, a non Stuart, wearing it but I'd like to know what you think.