Highlanders Discuss Highland Attire

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I suspect that the Loch Laggan area was chosen as the subject title, I would not be at all surprised if the artist had never been there, as that was where Queen Victoria stayed on her first trip to the highlands.A good selling point, for an astute artist. She stayed at what you chaps would know as "Glen Bogle". Now any local could tell you and certainly Queen Victoria has confirmed it in her diaries that the area of Loch Laggan is the midge capital of the world.That is why she went to the East highlands the year after and bought Balmoral. Every one moved out of the area in the summer. All the sheep, cattle, dogs, even the infirm and poorest of the poor moved away and quite often stayed away. Glen Lyon, the longest glen in Scotland, is about sixty miles South of Loch Laggan.

Quite correct Jock. Loch Laggan (near the very small town of Laggan) is Macpherson territory in Badenoch. Ewen Macpherson of Cluny, the 20th hereditary clan chief at the time, welcomed Queen Victoria upon her arrival, along with many Macpherson clansmen and women. The "Glen Bogle" estate as it is coined in "The Monarch of the Glen" series from the BBC, is actually Ardverikie House, which is a private residence (probably owned by some obscure, affluent Dutchman), however the house used to be in the possession of the Macphersons, yet that is another long, drawn out story, full of deceit, treachery, and skull duggery of the lowest order! Ha...the clan feud days...lol!