Poltics
King Charles attended the Braemar Gathering with Queen Camilla and presented the Championship Defend
King Charles presented his former faculty’s pipe band with a prestigious shield during his first Braemar Gathering as monarch.
Charles wore a brand new inexperienced, blue and red tartan named in his honour as he accompanied the Queen to the annual event a speedy distance from his summer situation at Balmoral, Aberdeenshire, on Saturday.
He awarded the Championship Defend to Gordonstoun pipe band following a cowl of eight performances for the judges.
The King first attended the Moray payment-paying faculty in April 1962, following within the footsteps of his father Prince Philip, the gradual Duke of Edinburgh.
He presented the shield to pipe predominant Scott Oliphant and college students Robert Lyall and Molly Warren.
The college’s pipe band consists of 35 pupils aged between 12 and 18, from international locations including the UK, Germany and Thailand.
The King’s time as a pupil at the college is believed to possess been an unlucky one and he reportedly described it as “Colditz in kilts” and a “reformatory sentence”.
Within the 2nd collection of Netflix point to The Crown, the young prince was once shown enduring bullying to boot to being compelled to sleep shut to a window which would now not shut, letting within the rain.
In 2017, the Scottish faculty criticised its portrayal within the collection and drew attention to a 1975 speech by the King within the House of Lords as he launched The Prince’s Belief, in which he acknowledged: “I am repeatedly astonished by the quantity of rot talked about Gordonstoun and the careless exhaust of aged cliches primitive to picture it.”
“It was once most effective tough within the sense that it demanded more of you as an person than most various schools did – mentally or bodily,” he added.
Lisa Kerr, necessary of Gordonstoun College, acknowledged: “It was once any such thrill for our athletes and musicians to be assist at the Braemar Gathering.
“Having been the final pipe band to be awarded the Championship Defend by her gradual majesty, to be the first to receive the same trophy from King Charles was once a noteworthy honour.
“Our young drummers and pipers will long be mindful this very special occasion.”
The King now not too long within the past chose four pipers from Gordonstoun to pipe him into St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, when he obtained the Scottish Crown Jewels in July.