ORDER OF THE THISTLE.
PURELY SCOTTISH HONOUR. AN ANCIENT LEGEND. (Times Air Mail Service.) LONDON. July 7. The Order of the Thistle, to which the Queen was admitted in Edinburgh to-day, is a purely Scottish Order. Hitherto only men have been admitted, but other Queens have been associated with it, says the Evening Standard. Queen Anne revived It in 1703, when it had fallen into abeyance. Above the Royal stall in the Thistle Chapel of Si. Giles’ is a carved panel of Queen Margaret, wife of Malcolm Canmore. And one of the legends of the emblem of Scotland tells how Queen Scotia, after a great victory, sat down on a bunch of thistles. In pain and fury she tore them up, and was, presumably, about to stamp on them in womanly anger. She suddenly changed her mind, and fastened them to her helmet as the symbol of her "wha daur meddle wi’ us” spirit. Official history says the 'Order was founded in 1687 by King James VII and 11. Less authenticated accounts say that It goes bark to A.D. 787.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 5
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