Gray Tartan

[gilmore]

I don't belive I'd feel comfortable wearing the tartan of a Clan without some sort of claim to that right.

Lineage is not my aim. I doubt I could easily prove lineage back to Lady Jane. Particularily with a name like Grey (Gray). It is a matter more in line with the guidance given by most, including the Standing Council of Clan Chiefs (I believe). If your family name is the name of a Clan or Sept, you can comfortably expect to wear the tartan of the that Clan.

Does the right of a Clan member to wear an entitled tartan end at some point. Is there something I'm missing?

I think it would be more acurate to say that is not a matter of rights and entitlements, but of appropriateness and tastefulness. There is no law against wearing nothing but a hot pink thong to a funeral, but few would do so.

BTW Jane Grey died in 1553, having been queen of England for 9 days in 1552. James Stuart VI and I didn't become king of England until 1603. It was only then that the Stuart dynasty ruled in both kingdoms. They were related through the Tudors, not the Stuarts, as far as I know. (Jane was the great granddaughter of Henry VII of England, while James V and I was his great great grandson, thus they were second cousins once removed.) I don't see a familial tartan connection. However, I am sure some will say that there were no tartan police in the 1500's, and Jane Grey could wear any damn tartan she wanted to. Was there even a Stuart tartan then?