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The tartan faded from everyday use, but its significance as a symbol of Scottish identity increased. During the ban, it became fashionable for resistors to wear kilts in protest.

The Maple Leaf tartan, designed in 1964 and later recognized as Canada’s official tartan, uses red, gold, green, and brown to reflect the changing colours of the maple leaf through the seasons.

The King has championed his passion for Scotland by wearing a tartan kilt to mark the country’s Burns Night celebrations. In a new photograph issued by Buckingham Palace on Saturday, Charles can ...

The kilt includes green, red and blue stripes and is made from King Charles III tartan, a new variety of the cloth designed by the Scottish Tartans Authority in 2023.

Buckingham Palace published a new photograph of King Charles wearing a kilt made of a tartan named in his honour to mark the birthday of Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns on Saturday.

Charles’ kilt includes green, red and blue stripes and is made from King Charles III tartan (Millie Pilkington/PA) The image was taken last autumn in the library of Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire.