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The Man Who Dressed a King: Sir Walter Scott and the Tartan He Refused

On 14 August 1822 the royal yacht dropped anchor off Leith in pouring rain, and a small boat put out from the harbour carrying the most famous Scotsman alive. King George IV was on deck. He was sixty, enormously fat, widely disliked in London, and the first reigning monarch to come to Scotland in a hundred and seventy years. When…