Quote Originally Posted by ThistleDown View Post
Aparently I've been looking in the mirror too long. Of course you are correct, but I've never seen a Balmoral in Scotland with a white cockade. They are traditionally black, but I suppose they could be replaced with white.
[chuckle] I thought that might be the case! When I got my balmoral, the first thing I did was pull it over my left ear...as I was looking at myself in the mirror. Looked good to me!

As I understand it the white cockade is strictly Jacobite...in honour of BPC who plucked and wore a white rose on his bonnet when he stepped back onto Scottish soil. In any case that famous painting of Culloden shows, I believe, the white cockade.