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With its fifes, drums and deep Scottish pride, the Atholl Highlanders will march on Friday at the State House parade in Boston. Renowned as Britain’s only private army — the regiment based at Blaine ...

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Granted the right to bear arms by Queen Victoria in 1844, and still in existence today as a private ceremonial Army, the Atholl Highlanders of Blair Castle can certainly be said to carry a strong link ...

In this remote Scottish village, a band of kilt-wearing riflemen who claim to be Europe's last private army are on the march. To the stirring sound of bagpipes and drums, the 150-strong regiment of ...

The annual parade and gathering of the Atholl Highlanders takes place at Blair Castle this weekend and this will be the 50th anniversary of the 10th Duke of Atholl reviving his private army. Back in ...