King Charles III welcomed to Balmoral in Scotland by Royal Guard (lots of kilts)

**Jock Scot** · 24th August 23, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by kilted redleg

I do not think you'll ever see HM King Charles III not kilted when in Scotland.

I fear that you will be disappointed, the King has happily worn trousers when appropriate or when the mood takes in the past when in Scotland and I really don’t expect him to change from doing so now.

**OC Richard** · 25th August 23, 03:46 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

the King has happily worn trousers when appropriate or when the mood takes in the past when in Scotland...

Which makes me wonder how many suitcases he travels with.

I work at Disneyland (the California one) and last week I talked to a young woman who told me she brought 4 suitcases and 15 bags of clothes for her weeklong stay in Anaheim.

**Jock Scot** · 25th August 23, 04:56 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Which makes me wonder how many suitcases he travels with.

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Lots and lots of trunks and cases, remember he is at Balmoral for the best part of two months. He will of course have some attire already there.

**stickman** · 25th August 23, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Which makes me wonder how many suitcases he travels with.

I work at Disneyland (the California one) and last week I talked to a young woman who told me she brought 4 suitcases and 15 bags of clothes for her weeklong stay in Anaheim.

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I don’t understand anyone who takes that much clothing for one week. When I was working I traveled all over the world, sometimes I was gone three months at a time. I traveled wearing a suit and tie, carrying a briefcase a toolkit and one suitcase and a very thick passport. There are laundry services at hotels and I used them constantly. I stayed at a hotel once and the only thing they would not wash was my underwear. No problem, I just washed my own, put them on top of the lamp shade, with the light on and they dried in no time. With the amount of travel I did it would have been impossible to take more excess baggage. Granted I had the necessaries down to the minimum. By the way I always was treated well by airline personnel, due to the way I dressed.

**OC Richard** · 26th August 23, 04:55 AM

Originally Posted by stickman

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I traveled wearing a suit and tie, carrying a briefcase, a toolkit, and one suitcase...

With the amount of travel I did it would have been impossible to take more excess baggage.

I see many people travelling in their suits. It makes perfect sense to wear the things that would take up the most suitcase space.

The topic has come up often here with Highland Dress. I generally travel with one overhead-bin-carryon, but a full Highland outfit and pipes mostly fills it. I've thought about wearing the Highland outfit on the plane to free up all that suitcase space, but I've not done it yet. (This is for trips where pipes and full outfit are not optional.)

**Jock Scot** · 26th August 23, 05:36 AM

I think there is a certain amount of thinking ahead and thinking about unexpected events, when the Royal Family travel.We must remember that The King is head of the British armed forces, so I imagine, at least three sets of appropriate uniforms to meet with assorted events (Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force)have to travel with him. Plus, suits, dinner suits, formal dress evening attire, formal day attire, shooting suits, sports jackets, blazers, wet weather gear, casual attire and appropriate shirts, shoes, boots and so on. Also, probably assorted kilt attire too. So as I suggest, lots of trunks and cases.

**stickman** · 26th August 23, 07:24 AM

You are right a certain amount of planing is necessary. However the type of travel has to be considered. Is it for vacation or work? In my case it was for work. When I took care of the problem it was off to the next job. For instance, I was working at a tire company in Japan finished the job, called my boss to tell him I was done. He sent me to India. I left India on the 20th spent the night in Perth Australia. The night of the 21st in some outback gold mine location. The night of the 22nd was spent on a flight to Tokyo. Took care of a problem in Yokohama, back to Tokyo spent night of 23rd. The night of the 24th was spent in Birmingham England. Can you imagine with all the bouncing around carrying anything more than the bare minimum. It got to the point that when I woke up I had to think what country I was in. It was better when I worked in China. I worked out of Hong Kong where I rented a hotel room by the month.