Newbe Question alert: Okay to wear other tartan?

[Don Patrick]

Todd,

I agree with you, but in doing so you've reminded me of something I've been over looking. One of my Gray ancesters was crowned Queen of Enland for two weeks. Unfortuneately it was a short reign, she was beheaded at the tower.

That would mean that the Grays would be entitled to wear the Stewart - or not? Not that I plan to rush out and buy a Stewart, but I could always think about it.

Unfortuneately we have no clan chief. The clan chief of the Campbells is a barrel-named (double-named) Chief. He would also be Chief of the Grays. Even with both names he is prohibited from being officially recognized to be the chief of both. I'm told he chose to be chief of the Campbells.

[McClef]

Lady Jane Grey was not descended from the Stewarts, her mother was Frances Brandon, the daughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary. Another sister of Henry VIII, Margaret, did marry into the Stewarts however. Henry's will had excluded her from the succession although she, being older, would have had the better claim.

Jane therefore was only related to the Stewarts through her great aunt.

Jane refused the crown but was told to try it on by her parents and did so out of a sense of filial duty, but she never had a proper coronation.