Royal Brown tartan

The Royal Brown tartan

The Royal Brown tartan also known as The Royal tartan is the family tartan of the royal House of Brown, and is also the personal tartan of August Charles II as Monarch of Victoria. Officially, it is worn by the pipers of the Victorian Guards with permission from the King.

Design

Designed in 1892 by Queen Victoria, the year after her arrival on Micras and her Coronation. It closely resembles the sett and colours of both the Brown Family tartan of her father, John Brown, and the Royal Stewart tartan of her mother Queen Victoria The Queen Mother.

Use

It is worn by The King and several members of the Royal Family but only with the King's permission. Along with the Victorian Guards, the only other approved wearer of the Royal Brown Tartan is the King's personal piper.

In 1897, Jock McLeary a farmer from Westden in Abbervale was tried for High Treason when he refused to stop wearing the Royal Tartan by the local magistrate. On the 14th August 1897, having been taken to Eldeburgh to stand trial, John McLeary, not only became the first Victorian citizen to be tried for High Treason, he also became the first in the land to be hanged for his crimes.