Kilt on Colin Firth in movie "The King's Speech"

[davidlpope]

Members of the Royal Family have Royal Stewart all their own, and can wear the Balmoral tartan too - but Prince Charles for one seems to have a bewildering array of kilts. Its another question but what are all those tartans he wears?

I've seen photos where Prince Charles is wearing the following tartans:

Royal Stewart
Hunting Stewart
Stewart Old Sett
Dress Stewart
George VI
Balmoral
Rothesay
Lord Of the Isles
Gordon

[Biathlonman]

Thanks davidlpope - you should be known as Hawkeye for that -

I can understand the connection with all of those tartans - Charles is Duke of Rothesay when in Scotland and is Lord of the Isles as well. But I wonder what the Gordon connection is? Perhaps he was Colonel of the Regiment (an honourary title) before the Gordon Highlanders vanished.

You just know he wouldn't wear something he wasn't entitled to in some way.

And, unlike various 3rd world dictators, every medal or star a member of the Royal Family wears has been earned or given legitimately. They just don't wear a bunch of gongs they've taken from a drawer at the palace to dress up their uniforms.

To link back to The King's Speech - George VI wears medals including WW1 medals. He saw action at Jutland. The current Duke of York - Prince Andrew, saw combat in the Falklands. These guys don't run for safe jobs when hard and dangerous ones need doing. And if William doesn't fly his helo right, it crashes. End of story.
Now, does anyone know what kilt was worn by Colin Firth in the movie? There must be several members of the forum who specialize in picking these things out.

[davidlpope]

I can understand the connection with all of those tartans - Charles is Duke of Rothesay when in Scotland and is Lord of the Isles as well. But I wonder what the Gordon connection is? Perhaps he was Colonel of the Regiment (an honourary title) before the Gordon Highlanders vanished.

Prince Charles served as Colonel-in-Chief of the regiment before amalgamation. See this link:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...MsvpgQfR14yZCw

Here's an interesting story re: a portrait of Prince Charles wearing the Gordon Highlanders regimental tie:

http://www.richardstoneuk.com/dailytelegraph2.htm

[BoldHighlander]

[davidlpope]

It's hard to make out, but perhaps almost like Douglas Modern with the azure line replaced with white?

[xman]

I saw it.

I'm pretty sure he's wearing County Kerry in the car.



I had to laugh since that one can't even be twenty years old. I recently saw The Queen and remarked that Charles was wearing a very modern tartan at one point as well and wondered if the designer hadn't chosen something to represent the Balmoral tartan which the actors, of course, wouldn't be permitted to wear.

Do I get a cracker?

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

I... wondered if the designer hadn't chosen something to represent the Balmoral tartan which the actors, of course, wouldn't be permitted to wear.

Actually the Palace goes out of its way to be extremely helpful to motion picture companies, and I rather suspect that permission to use Balmoral tartan would have been granted, if it had been requested.

If that's not Balmoral tartan (sorry, didn't bring my Boy's Book of Tartans with me to the cinema) it is more than likely down to the time constraints involved in having to run up enough material (in different weights) to make both a kilt and a suit.

[Jimmy]

I saw it.

I'm pretty sure he's wearing County Kerry in the car.



I had to laugh since that one can't even be twenty years old. I recently saw The Queen and remarked that Charles was wearing a very modern tartan at one point as well and wondered if the designer hadn't chosen something to represent the Balmoral tartan which the actors, of course, wouldn't be permitted to wear.

Do I get a cracker?

According to this morning's newspapers, you've got it right, it is county Kerry tartan and the producers have admitted this was a massive blunder allowing him to wear this Irish tartan in the film, Royals have never worn such a tartan

[theborderer]

Prince Charles has also wore the Welch National tartan recently. As Prince of Wales its about time

[McClef]

Prince Charles has also wore the Welch National tartan recently. As Prince of Wales its about time

Darn and I missed it!

(BTW Welsh is the normal term rather than Welch unless it's talking about the Royal Welch Fusiliers)