Dancers at the Braemar Gathering in Scotland. The festival begins today
© Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Image
Let the Highland games begin
Cue the bagpipes – today’s homepage brings us to Scotland for the Braemar Gathering, an annual celebration of Scottish culture that starts today in the village of Braemar. These Highland games include traditional dance, music, athletic competitions – and tartan, lots and lots of tartan. Since 1848, Braemar has regularly been attended by the Royal Family. The Queen, the official patron of the games, has attended every year since 1952, when she ascended the throne. It’s worth noting that she likes tartan too, and even has her own personal style of tartan – a pattern called the ‘Royal Stewart’.
Related Images
Reading the news aboard the Empire Windrush on arrival at Tilbury, Essex on 22 June 1948
The Spirit of Harlem mural by Louis Delsarte in Harlem, New York, USA
Ludwig van Beethoven sculptures and monument at the Münsterplatz, Bonn, Germany
Bombe code-breaking machine, Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
The interior of the Abu Simbel Great Temple in Egypt
Stars reflecting in Totensee, a mountain lake at Grimsel Pass, Kanton Bern, Switzerland
The flooded crypt at Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
The catalogue and enquiries stall at the Women's Exhibition, London, May 1909.
Today Bing
Northern gannets on the Saltee Islands, Ireland
Sep 01, 2016
Strokkur geyser near the Hvítá River in Iceland
Sep 01, 2015
