  Christine had a very successful competitive career winning over 250 championship titles including six World Highland Dancing Championships.

 Board of Highland Dancing - the world governing body of Highland dance and has held that position since 2006.

Since retiring from competitive dancing she has served on all committees of the SOBHD and she organises the dancing at her two main local Highland games Luss and

Balloch as well as the City of Glasgow Championships

every year for the past 20 years. Christine is in great demand worldwide lecturing, examining and adjudicating.

Last June Christine took early retirement from the Bank of Scotland, where she worked in management, after almost 34 years service.

She now has formed a local dance school with her business partner Kirsteen Brown called the Lacey Brown School of Dance.

Christine is happily married to RSPBA adjudicator and Field Marshal Montgomery piper Donald MacPhee and they reside in Alexandria in the Vale of Leven.

Christine is very grateful for the support the RSPBA gives to Highland dancers and Highland dancing offering contests and championships at most of their major pipe band championships.

 honoured in this way is very overwhelming because somebody has actually thought

 humbling.

'My dance teacher Miss Jessie Stewart was awarded an MBE too and to be even thought of receiving the same honour as her is just really

 Christine poses for the cameras

and (right) with her predecessor at the RSPBA, Miss Jean Ritchie

APRIL 2014 Pipe Band Magazine 7 Christine pictured near the

bonny banks of Loch Lomond with the World Adult trophy