STEWART, ROYAL (MODERN) [non-wool] Choose:By the metre The Lovat Scouts was a

The Lovat Scouts was a British Army unit first formed during the Second Boer War as a Scottish Highland yeomanry regiment of the British Army

James Scarlett MBE explains that it was a waistcoat given to Prince Charles Edward Stuart by MacDonald of Kingsbrugh

the regiment chose to be disbanded rather than amalgamated with another regiment

Source given as M Castro the handloom weaver

STEWART, ROYAL (MODERN) [non-wool] Choose:By the metre The Lovat Scouts was aThis started life allegedly as a 'Royal' tartan that of the Royal House of Stuart and theoretically the personal tartan of the reigning monarch. Over the years however it became so popular and was so widely worn by all and sundry that it is now regarded as a Universal tartan (i. e. can be worn by anyone who has no clan tartan).