The Kingdom of Pictland has been acknowledged by scholars both ancient and modern, but our status as a people has been denied by the crown governments of both Norman Scotland and England. This was alluded to in one of the most important documents in Scottish history, "The Declaration of Arbroath", which was composed and signed largely by the descendents of the Norman lords that King Malcolm III Ceanmor introduced into Scotland. The false statement in the document of our utter destruction, condemned the Pictish people to the status of an unrecognized people.

Contrary to what was written, however, we were not destroyed, nor were we assimilated. Let us not forget that when the last Celtic king of Scots King Alexander III died, there were numerous claimants to the throne. We find it strange that a Norman English King Edward Longshanks is asked to settle the succession of Celtic Scotland, as if our own offices did not already exist. Another point that must be made is that all of the Celtic claimants to the throne, both Pictish and Scottish are not even recognized, and are dismissed with a stroke of a Norman English judge’s pen, and a Norman King is appointed to rule over Celtic Scotland/Pictland.

Soon after this appointment, King Edward Longshanks of England, dispossessed of most of the royal claimants to the throne of Scotland, strengthened the position of his puppet King in Scotland. After the Battle of Bannockburn, the Norman King of Scotland, not content with his newly won status, won with the blood of many a Pict and Scot, sets about awarding Pictish and Scottish lands to his Norman supporters.

As a people who had been denied their existence by the Declaration of Arbroath and Norman lords, the Pictish people were left with no recourse, and were powerless to do anything. As our rights, dignities and honors were subsumed by the Normans, and our status as a people denied us, our royal houses joined and established a hereditary High King from the Northern Picts, who were still recognized as a Pictish nation even by the Vikings. Hence, the predominantly Picto-Norse populations of Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, Hebrides, Caithness, Orkney, and Shetland. It is held that sovereignty, once attained, cannot be traded, sold, or lost.

This condition persisted until the 1400’s, when the Kingdom of Pictland joined it’s sovereignty with that of Scotland, gaining recognition and representation as a people, and forming the present-day country of Scotland. In 1707 C.E. with the union with England, the Kingdom of Scotland failed in our trust, and having violated the unbreachable conditions of our sovereignty, we rejected the Government so established in Scotland as illegitimate. By so doing we re-established our Kingdom’s government in Pictland. We remained in Scotland after our efforts to restore the House of Stuart to the throne, but our peoples were hard pressed after a failed revolt and strikes in 1812.

The Kingdom of Pictland went into exile among the colonies and ex-colonies of their oppressors. The Kingdom of Pictland was proclaimed a sovereign nation on March 3, 1812 C.E., in a Decretum Regius by His Majesty King George III (not to be confused with the King of England), Hereditary High King of the Northern Picts. The decision to create and otherwise establish this national entity arose out of a deep concern for the obvious loss and erosion of the cultural heritage, customs, and traditions of Pictland by the encroachment of the English government, their complete suppression of the entire nation, and acts of genocidal warfare upon the populace. No effort shall be spared in promoting the achievement of the Kingdom of Pictland, the acquisition of territory in our homeland, as well as to strengthen the solidarity of the Pictish people, both within and without Pictland, and for the eventual return of our Kingdom to our homeland.