Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
Look at the source -- Wikipedia. Does it footnote where this claim is from, or provide a works cited page? If it doesn't, then I wouldn't allow one of my students to cite it as a source in their research.

Also, I'm a bit supicious of the claim that "Queen Anne" authorizing her subjects to wear a tartan.

T.
Yeah, I think a citation may be needed there. Thing is, I've seen this reprinted somewhere else and I bloody cannot find it. It might not have mentioned Queen Anne specifically, however, it did mention that the tartan of a royal family could be worn by all their subjects just as clan members wear their chief's tartan.

This kind of thing drives me nuts. I find something, and then when I need to cite it, I cannot locate it for the life of me. I'll do some searching today "in between" my workload. ;)

EDIT: I found this so far: http://tartans.byair.net/index.php?t...=royal-stewart
The best known of all Scottish tartans, the Royal Stewart is the tartan of the Royal House of Stewart and the personal tartan of Her Majesty the Queen. In the same way that clansmen wear the tartan of their chief, it is appropriate for all subjects of the Queen to wear the Royal Stewart tartan.