Which tartan to ware?

[Colin]

There was actually an interesting story in a paper a while back about a group wanting to restore the Stuart dynasty to the thrown and get rid of the Windsors (this was when all the scandals were going on that made the Royals seem rather unattractive).

Anyway, some geneologists starting tracing down the lines to see which Royal House in Europe, since they are all so interbred, had the most Stuard blood and could therefore rightly claim to a be a Stuart dynasty.

Guess who they found? Prince William! He gets Stuart blood both through Prince Charles' & through Princess Diana's lines. So when he finally ascends the thrown the person with the highest concentration of Stuart blood running through his veins on this planet will once again be King. Needless to say, the entire drive fell apart at that point.

That's within the Royals. I remember a story a few years back about the Stewart line. At the time it looked like the heir to the crown was actually a farmer in Australia. Others have claimed the true heir to be the Prince of Albany. I think at this time it is now a moot point.

In 2005, Dr Michael Jones revealed evidence that the English King Edward VI was illegitimate, and that the claims of all his heirs to the kingdoms of England, and eventually the United Kingdom were invalid. The true heir to the throne of England would have been George, Duke of Clarence, and his heir, Michael Abney-Hastings, the 14 th Earl of Loudoun, who lives in Australia, is the rightful King of England.

from http://www.alba.org.uk/timeline/monarchy.html
check out http://members.tripod.com/~midgley/abney_hastings.html and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3368731.stm


As for the Royal Stewart tartan, when I was looking into it I was told that it was to commemorate the 300 years of Stewart rule in Scotland. It has now become so widely used as a general tartan I suspect that most Stewarts likely shy away from it. After all there are around a dozen Stuart/Stewart tartans now. I have the same issue with the MacKenzie tartan. It is my family's tartan, yet with the Seaforths and every kiltmaker selling it as general, it has lost some of the clan affiliation. Just my take on it anyway.