Crown Jewels on Display

That's no accident, he's holding the kilt up.

Yeah, I noticed he's holding it straight. But it still could be doctored. I read an article about it the other day. (Reuters, I think.) Anyone Kilt-wearers out there who would like to divulge what's really under there & help solve this??

Not convinced by the Snopes' original - there appears to be a lot of light where you'd expect it to be quite dark.

Also, photographers are usually a bit more touchy when composing a picture - they usually irritate subjects with requests for minor adjustments so it's a bit odd that this crass mistake would be let pass. 🐛

Supposedly, the Queen's Highland regiments have a proud tradition of wearing nothing under their kilts. They're not supposed to display themselves, though.

Which brings us to the old joke where the young man joins the Royal Army, and after basic training he comes home on leave in his Highland uniform. The first evening in the family parlor, his mother takes him aside and says, "Son, if you're going to be a soldier, you're going to have to learn to sit like a lady."

I agree with Lawrence, though, that it seems suspiciously light under that kilt, unless there's some unidentified (and highly unusual) bright light from directly in front of and slightly below the people in the photo.

The head of the penis quite obviously reaches the front edge of the chair, where the bend of his knee is. The penis would have to be extraordinarily long if it were real. Also, the base of the penis sprouts from his perineal area. Much too low. The schlong is doctored.

Maybe he's Dick Cheney's long lost son:-)

KV

Must be a hoax. You say it's England, but people don't dress like this in England, only in Scotland.

One thing real fast. The country of Great Britian is composed of four main parts in Europe. England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland (think of them as states) so, England owns Scotland. This is the Highland Regiment. The Highland is Scotland. It's not possible that this photo is real for other reasons, but this is indeed Great Britian's Highland Regiment under the symbolic rule of the Queen.

Scotland is owned by England?? Don't let the Scots hear you say that.
David Orme (Englishman)

Great Britain is in Europe? Don't let the English hear you say that!

Just to maintain my reputation for being picky, I'll also point out that Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain, although it is part of the United Kingdom (much to the Provisional IRA's chagrin). Great Britain is the big island covered by England, Wales, and Scotland. Ireland is that other big rock over to the west of Great Britain.

This is obviously fake. In much simpler terms, the distance between the penis and the chair is too high. Shouldn't it rest on the chair? Also, his bent knees aren't in proportion with the top of the calf area. The knees are too skinny and pale in comparison with the rest of his legs. Fake.

Whoa. Snopes proven wrong? and I can't even show it off....

Fine, fine, fine... I'll give you that it's technically together the entire thing is the United Kingdom and that Great Britain is the island itself, but Tony Blair is the Prime Minister of both England and Scotland so they can own each other as much as I care. Also, why would the English dislike being called European? They may not like the idea of the Euro, but the nation is considered part of the continent of Europe. (unless someone's been lying to me all of this time...)

This picture is OBVIOUSLY a fake - No real person would wear such a hideous hat!

Nope, fake. Two giant clues: The GIF pallette of the willie in the photo is 16 color and too light for the pallatte shading of the rest of the pictures. Also, the Royal Guard, as well as male members of the Royal Family are "gaffed" at ceremonies. This means small grey underwear is worn for just such purposes. None of these men have naked genitals this close to the queen. No doubt, his underwear showed, and some pundit put a willie on him.

I belong to a highland regiment in Canada. The requirement is no underwear when wearing a kilt.
but nobody checks. if somebody challenges and you are you owe the whole regiment a beer

:coolsmile: waz up??

omg do you guyz see what i see in that pic??!!

An insult to Scotland. I'm half Scottish, though I was born here in Sydney.

That's fascinating, Jeremy -- I had heard more than once about the "gaffing" for formal and/or diplomatic occassions with the elite guards of the kilted regiments but I thought it was an urban-legend type of thing. I was told a small black bikini brief, not a grey one, was actually issued for these cases but you may know first hand... so to speak. For the record, I don't think he's intentionally holding his kilt taught to expose what's under it. If you look closley, you can see that his hands are curled and resting on his knees above the hem the same as all the other men. I agree with you that it's been doctored but I think it was messed with twice. In the original shot, which first appeared, there's just this blurred void where something (whatever it is)ought to be. My bet is that his surperiors didn't want the "age old secter" reduced to the pouch of a soldier's underpants revealed in print so they just blurred it out it and then someone got a hold of that and tinkered. It's obviously faked just because of the odd proportions... Not that he might not be sporting a 9-iron in his jock, good for him - but I mean, if he were really so enormously endowed as that and regimental too, at the very least, the group of people behind the camera(handlers and the Queen's entourage alone would make up almost a dozen)would have noticed it and discretely fixed the "problem" before the photo was ever taken, whereas one kilted soldier's panties showing between his legs could easily go unnoticed until the print. Anyway, that's my two... well, fifty cents.

OK, so I know that post is a year and a half old, but if Canadian highlander checked to be notified of responses, Kilts are so hit 😊 pics?

C

hehe nice and funny

As the late Harry Lindley, special advisor to the Royal Family on matters of Highland dress is reputed to have said, "Nothing is worn under the kilt Madam - it's all in perfect working order!"