The Regent’s Tartan: How a Discontinued Pattern Became Clan MacLaren’s
The story of the MacLaren tartan begins with an unexpected connection between royal fashion and the clan traditions of Balquhidder. On 29 January 1820, at Windsor Castle, King George III died, blind and mad, after a reign of nearly sixty years. His son, who had been ruling in his place as Prince Regent since 1811,…