HRH at Greenville Games

[wildrover]

Who's this "we" you refer to, Brian? I don't wish to be antagonistic here, but this is an international forum owned by a Canadian and devoted to Scottish dress.

That "we" would be us Americans, who, by the struggle of our American forefathers, were excused from having to spend our school days learning the structures of what sounds like an even more complicated system of government than our own . Though I'll admit we do seem to have a bit of what seems like hereditary passing-on of titles here in the States ...

The Nature of Arms by Gayre of Gayre and Nigg (Oliver & Boyd, 1961, out of print)

This is an aside, but I was flipping through Scots Guards vol II and came across a tune entitled "Farewell to Nigg"...and I wondered where they were talking about. There seem to be several places in the British Isles with that name.

Fascinating discussion! It's always good to know how things work outside our own borders. We've a bit of a moat between us and "the old country", you know ...