How You Can Become A Scottish Lord In 10 Minutes Or Less
by hannah_poindexter, 8 years ago |
3 min read
It’s the best $35 you’ll ever spend.
Meet my grandfather, Charles “Dusty” MacDonald of Traverse City, Michigan. Or now — thanks to me — “Lord Dustin Charles MacDonald of Glencoe, Scotland.” His ascent to the throne was similar to that of Mia Thermopolis — it was thrust upon him on his birthday at a time when he had no prior knowledge of his royal history of any kind. With a name like MacDonald, there was no doubt about my family’s ancestry: MacDonald is as Scottish as they come. My great-great-great grandfather likely immigrated to the US in the late 19th century. But my family still knows the austere black-white-and-red MacDonald tartan pattern well — we wore it every summer at the Highland Festival in Alma, Michigan while we danced to bagpipes and watched brawny men in kilts compete in log-throwing competitions:
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Do not show me this again