Template:Royal Scots
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Official name
The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
Colonel-in-Chief
Honorary-General HRH Mary, Princess Royal (1918)
HRH Anne, Princess Royal (1983)
Nicknames
Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard
Motto
Nemo me impune lacessit (Nobody touches me with impunity)
Anniversaries
Marches
Quick March: Dumbarton's Drums
Slow March: Garb of Old Gaul
Alliances
Description
Light Role Infantry regiment
Creation date
1633
Reason for creation
Created for service in France in 1633 by Royal Warrant as John Hepburn's Regiment. It became the Royal Scots (The Lothian Regiment) Regiment in 1881, though changed Lothian for Royal in 1921.
