The Sobieski Stuart brothers’ book, Vestiarium Scoticum, depicting clan tartans and how to wear them, was a 19th-century bestseller that saw them lauded by the great and the good of the day ...

He said: “I couldn’t be prouder or happier to have been asked to be the 2024 NYC Tartan Day Parade grand marshal. “And also to be wearing the Morrison tartan, the tartan of my mother’s family.

Tartan Week is a continuation, and since the US houses around six million people with Scottish ancestry, the NYC event is as popular as St. Patrick’s Day some years.

Actor Dougray Scott has said he “couldn’t be prouder” to be chosen to lead the New York City Tartan Day parade. Scott will lead more than 1,500 bagpipers, Highland dancers, Scottish clan ...