The SCICC is still insisting that some form of registration be carried on with the Office of Chief Herald for anyone requesting admission to their group, presentation of ‘pedigree’ or whatever!
Even though the government has said clearly that it is out of the business of certifying anything regarding successions to a chiefship of name!!

A reply has been received, which states that the Queen of the U.K. will not ‘intervene’ and thus our petition has been turned down.
What was asked was nothing more than what the House of Windsor already does in socially recognising representatives of formerly reigning royal houses of many countries, such as Greece, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Portugal, etc.
Such recognitions are a private House of Windsor matter, having nothing to do with the current relations of the U.K. government with the successor states of formerly reigning families.
It was petitioned that the same courtesy already shown to many others simply be extended to the descendants of formerly reigning royal houses of Gaelic Ireland.
This decision is saddening, as it apparently suggests that the House of Windsor prefers to acknowledge the actions of previous English governments to eliminate all vestiges of the Gaelic order pre and post Kinsale 1602, to include their illegal ‘law’ of 1587 ‘abolishing Gaelic titles and customs utterly and forever’.
During her visit to Ireland fairly recently, she said that she wished that certain things in the past had not been done at all, or done differently. Here was an opportunity to give substance to those words, which has been rejected.
Perfidious Albion, again?
You, the readers, can judge.
The Association certainly says that the decision is hypocritical, given recognitions of other formerly reigning houses of other countries, all of which actually ruled for untold centuries less than the Gaelic houses.
An article has been written which reflects the initiative of the Association and gives the reply received, etc., referenced on our ‘Home’ page in the section of published works of interest.
The article is entitled ‘No Irish Need Apply! Still the Case?’