The Scottish Empire, an inconvenient truth
A Scotsman, an Englishman, a Welshman and an Irishman walked into a country, and they all took it.
At 18.15 HKT on the 30th of June 1997, the "sunset" handover ceremony for the territory of Hong Kong took place on the waterfront. To the cheers of the watching crowd, the Black Watch marched onto the parade square for the final time, in an event that, for many, symbolically marked the formal end of the British Empire.