We weren’t pressganged/conquered into that union though.
After a couple Marys, a few regents, a French queen, a John Knox, three changes in religious affiliation and French troops on Scottish soil ya'll were just too exhausted to fight about it.
however, generations after the joining of the crowns had to put up with English influence. I have stood on the battlefield at Culloden, and felt the helpessness of the Jacobite army armed with claymores against the Duke of Northumberland's army armed with cannon.
I ran into Scots in Inverness who still held a grudge all these years after the Clearances.
The owner of our B&B in Inverness asked me to spit on the doorstep at Dunrobin Castle for her to show her feelings toward her Southern neighbors. I had not done my homework, but she graciously told me storiesof what her family endured under the English.
Wm Wallace was not wrong fighting for freedom 500 years earlier.
Have a great evening.