The first step in acquiring your Loch Ness Title of Lord, Lady, or Laird is choosing the title that best suits you.
Whichever title you choose, you’ll will have a certificate of rights
Here’s a quick guide to the traditional ways titles are acquired:
A uniquely Scottish courtesy title, "Laird" signifies ownership of an established Scottish estate.
The female equivalent of Lord, the title of Lady is typically acquired through marriage, inheritance, or an appointment to the House of Lords.
Traditionally inherited or conferred by marriage or appointment to the House of Lords, the title of Lord has long been a symbol of prestige. Since 2004, it's also possible to purchase a historic Scottish Barony title, though this typically comes with a significant cost.
When you choose your title, you’ll receive a presentation pack that includes everything you need to connect with your piece of Scotland:
When you’ve decided what title to confer on yourself – or as an ideal gift for a friend or loved one – there’s no need to follow those traditional, difficult and expensive routes to becoming a Laird, Lord or Lady.
Just visit our shop and complete a safe, secure online purchase. You’ll receive an email order confirmation, then sit back and wait for your honours to arrive in the post in an exciting welcome presentation pack.
Each title costs just £80, with free postage worldwide, and you have the right to transfer ownership of your title to anyone else at any time, or leave it behind as a legacy for a loved one.
Your presentation pack will contain:
• Frameable Title Certificate
• Loch Ness Titles Membership Card (for special offers as they arise)
The title “Laird” is quintessentially Scottish, and therefore its ramifications may not be familiar to everyone outside Scotland.
It’s a courtesy title used since the Middle Ages, passed down through generations to designate to a person (male or female) who owns an amount of land in Scotland. In centuries past this would often be a person who was Chief of one of the Highland clans.
A Laird has no official noble or aristocratic status. It’s not a title conferred by any authority, but rather one used in a feudal sense by the tenants of the landowner’s estate.
In Scotland a Laird is a much honoured historic title and valued throughout the ages by Scottish Clans.
