To be regarded as "gems", garnets should be blood red or the colour of wine. GARNET: Of the quartz family, the garnet found in Scotland is most commonly red, brownish-red or black. condensed from the July, 1998 issue of The Scottish Banner It is decorated with the shields and crested helmets of the Knights, and the royal window bears a portrait of St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh is the chapel of the Knights of the Thistle. One of the most popular tourist attractions at St. There is one Lady of the Thistle, HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. The Secretary of the Order is the Lord Lyon King of Arms, Sir Malcolm Innes. Today the number of Knights of the Thistle is still limited to sixteen, with Queen Elizabeth II as Sovereign of the Order. It is awarded to Scots for exceptional service to the throne and candidates are personally selected by the monarch. Its intent was to give Scotland an order of chivalry comparable with the English Order of the Garter. Having fallen out of use, the order was given new life by King James V in 1540.ĭuring the Revolution of 1688, when James VII was ousted from the throne, the order again lapsed, to be revived by his daughter Queen Anne in 1703. Tradition has it that the order was founded in 809 by Achaiuys, King of the Scots, to honour St. The thistle inspired Scotland's own order of knighthood - The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle. The grateful Scots adopted the thistle as a symbol of their nation. In the ensuing battle, the Danes were routed. One soldier, stepping on a thistle, cried out and alerted the Scots. The Danish invaders, however, decided to attack barefooted and under the cloak of darkness to silently approach the unsuspecting Scots. In those days it was considered unwarlike to attack an enemy at night. The thistle seems to have emerged as a Scottish emblem through a Danish invasion. condensed from The Scottish Banner, October '98 Articles about the following Scottish emblems and icons have been assembled from the association's newsletters, newspaper articles and general history.
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