King Charles III.: Palace shares new portrait in the Schottenrock

The Buckingham Palast has a new portrait of King Charles III on the occasion of the Burns Night, a Scottish holiday to commemorate the poet Robert Burns (1759-1796). (76). The photo shows the British monarch in a traditional Scottish skirt, combined with a beige jacket and vest as well as a tie in tartan pattern.

The photo was taken in autumn 2024 by photographer Millie Pilkington, who has worked several times for the Royal Family. It shows Charles in the library of the Scottish Castle Balmoral in Aberdeenshire, where the royal family usually spends its summer vacation. Charles can be seen in front of a wall with books and put his hand on a stack of books. “I wish everyone who celebrates this evening a happy Burns Night,” it says.

was published in 1966, for the 18th birthday of the then Prince of Wales, a similar portrait of Charles, on which he posed in the traditional Balmoral art tartan pattern and with Tweedblazer in the library in Balmoral on a red leather chair.

According to this, the tie and the Scottish skirt of the monarch consist in its current portrait of the “King Charles III Tartan”, which was created in 2023 by Scottish Tartans Authority for the king. It consists of the colors green, red and dark blue. For the first time this September, he had publicly worn this September at the Braemer Highland Games.

The caroma pattern typical of Tartan is created when weaving. Since the early 19th century, the patterns have been used representative of belonging to a Scottish clan. In Scotland there is even an official tartan register that records the affiliation of a pattern and a family clan.