I visited in Robert de Bruce's footsteps throughout Scotland one year with my husband and some friends from Ireland; I should dig out some photos someday, including some of Melrose Abbey. :)
We were also acquainted with the infamous Michel Lafosse, aka Prince Michael of Scotland, back when we were involved with the Scottish Knights Templar. It's all quite wild and woolly, those days. I rather miss them. I think all of them are a bit mad (well, Michel was more than mad, but he was a nice if completely insane young man back then), but the sort of mad we fit into. Fanboys with capes. Hah! (I hadn't thought of that before, but you know ... that's exactly what it is.)
ETA: I got so distracted with my own thoughts, I forgot to answer you. You reference, of course, the original medieval Knights of St. Andrew, named for the 63 knights who appeared on the field of battle at Bannockburn and helped Robert the Bruce win the field against the English. (Yes, seen Bannockburn, too, but alas that day didn't get to stop at Stirling Castle.) And of course it continues now as the Masonic Scottish Rite Order of the Knights of St. Andrew. :)
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Date: 2008-11-24 01:35 pm (UTC)We were also acquainted with the infamous Michel Lafosse, aka Prince Michael of Scotland, back when we were involved with the Scottish Knights Templar. It's all quite wild and woolly, those days. I rather miss them. I think all of them are a bit mad (well, Michel was more than mad, but he was a nice if completely insane young man back then), but the sort of mad we fit into. Fanboys with capes. Hah! (I hadn't thought of that before, but you know ... that's exactly what it is.)
ETA: I got so distracted with my own thoughts, I forgot to answer you. You reference, of course, the original medieval Knights of St. Andrew, named for the 63 knights who appeared on the field of battle at Bannockburn and helped Robert the Bruce win the field against the English. (Yes, seen Bannockburn, too, but alas that day didn't get to stop at Stirling Castle.) And of course it continues now as the Masonic Scottish Rite Order of the Knights of St. Andrew. :)