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#KingCharlesReport: The newly woven Royal Tartan at the Highland games; Polling shows young Britain unimpressed. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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🗓️ 6 September 2023

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#KingCharlesReport: The newly woven Royal Tartan at the Highland games; Polling shows young Britain unimpressed. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/king-charles-iii-has-a-major-problem-among-young-people/ar-AA1gdXQW
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0:00.0

I'm John Batch with my colleague Gregory Coppoli of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

0:09.1

The Royal Scottish Tartan, here's what I learned from, reporting while King Charles was

0:14.3

attending the Scottish games.

0:16.6

This is great fun.

0:17.6

The Royal family originally started attending the games in the mid-19th century when Queen

0:21.7

Victorian Prince Albert Persia's Balmour Castle.

0:25.3

The Scottish Tartan Authority said the King's New Tartan, which they revealed for the first

0:30.4

time this year, Green Blue and Red Tartan was designed by the Scottish Tartan's authority

0:36.3

to mark the occasion of the coronation and in recognition of his majesty's strong support

0:41.6

in preserving the culture and traditions of Highland dress and Scottish Tartan.

0:47.4

The cloth woven in 100% Scottish wool by La Karen of Scotland in Selkirk includes a central

0:55.5

triple-stripe motif, which is a feature of the Royal Tartan's previously worn by his majesty,

1:01.6

including the Duke of Rossi, the Duke of Rossi hunting, and Lord of the Isles hunting tartans.

1:07.9

Gregory, this all requires translation, but what I take out of it is that Charles is sincere

1:14.3

about keeping Scotland in the United Kingdom.

1:17.0

It's a genuine affection.

1:19.0

Do I read this correctly?

1:21.1

Oh, there's no question.

1:22.2

And King Charles is very proud of the fact that he is a direct descendant of James I of England,

1:30.0

and who was also James VI of Scotland, and Prince William, for example, has that lineage,

1:37.7

but more so, through Prince Diana, connected to even more Scottish kings.

1:43.5

So the connection there is profound, and the King Charles III Tartan, I think, is actually

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