King's Kilt, The

In 2014 an American academic finds a lost diary of Walter Scott’s under the floorboards of his Edinburgh bed and breakfast. Read more …

In 1822 Walter Scott himself is preparing a reluctant Scotland for the arrival of their monarch, George 4th, the first of his royal house to ever venture north of the border.....and to greet his Scottish subjects the King must have a kilt. But getting him one becomes an almost impossible task as Edinburgh’s best kilt maker flatly refuses to make it.

The critical consensus

Whether all this amounts to much more than a sustained familiar joke about the origins of modern Scottish tartanism is hard to say: the stereotypes are obvious, the mood light.

(*) (*) Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 29/11/2014