The History of Scotland, the Romance of Scotland, and "Outlander"
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The Romantic Lost Cause of Jacobatism
For about 200 years, between the early 16 hundreds and the early 18 hundreds, no monarch visited scotland. This only changed in the 18 twenties, after george the fourth ascended to the british throne. And when he went, he actually approached walter scott and asked him to dress him in appropriate, traditional scScottish dress. He ended up appearing in edinburgh wearing a large kilt, he was a very fat man, and pink leggings under underneath it to be a bit more seemly. So there's this romantic attachment to scotland, to the sort of romantic lost cause of jacobatism, coupled with a lot of sympathy for radical
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