![]() King James VIII and III visited Glamis Castle in January 1716, just a few months after John, 5 th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, an ardent Jacobite, was killed at the Battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715. The item is a large portion of Prince Charles Edward tartan which is a more compact version of the more commonly seen Royal Stewart tartan. This piece of tartan is believed to have been connected to or presented by either the Jacobite King James VIII and III, known by his enemies as the ‘Old Pretender’, or his son Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Another item from Glamis, the mid-18 th century piece of Prince Charles Edward Stuart tartan, is installed at the Tartan exhibition, in the Wilsons of Bannockburn case. The jacket was therefore returned to Glamis (where it is now displayed flat in the Family Exhibition Room), but a lovely photograph of it is included in the Tartan exhibition. Initially, James selected the Royal Company of Archers’ jacket, c.1715 (the Sovereign’s Bodyguard in Scotland) for display in the exhibition, but although it is in remarkably good condition for a garment over 300 years old, it was subsequently decided that hanging it on a mannequin could potentially cause damage. Our Archivist, Ingrid Thomson, has been key to this collaboration, presenting James Wylie, one of the exhibition’s curators, with options on rare tartans from Glamis. These past few weeks has seen the launch of V&A Dundee’s latest exhibition, a vibrant, dazzling and absorbing celebration of our nation’s very own textile, tartan.Īs part of the Tartan exhibition, the team at Glamis Castle have been collaborating with the museum to share some local tartan stories that can be celebrated on an international design stage. An iconic hub of creativity, it is home to the wonderful, ultra-modern V&A Dundee, Scotland’s first design museum. Just twelve miles down the road from our historic castle, is the city of Dundee.
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