Newbe Question alert: Okay to wear other tartan?

[Don Patrick]

McClef,

You certainly know the Grays! I didn't realize how well known that fact was - since it's said she was Queen of England for only nine days in 1553. I had understood it was her father that caused the problem.

I put Campbell in my previous post, but began having some mild doubts about that - now I can't seem to find my notes on the matter.

Guess I can forget about the Stewart Tartan.

[cacunn]

I thought that if you wore another clans tartan you had to wear it with the pleats in front to indicated you were backing into the privilege.



Bad pun

[McClef]

Don,

Jane is well-known over here in the UK, one of those facts that "every schoolboy knows"

But I did a lot of reading up on the Tudors and the Stewarts for my own interest anyway.

Wiki is quite good on Jane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Jane_Grey

And if you like movies I can recommend Lady Jane starring Helena Bonham-Carter and Cary Elwes with Patrick Stewart playing Jane's father.

That's the only real Stewart connection

But the Stewart tartans are considered universal anyway so don't let the Grey unrelatedness put you off.