So he came south with his harem of catamites, and his Stuart dynasty plunged my ancestors into three civil wars in 150 years, until they finally ran James II out of town in 1688.
But the tradition he established, of paying Scotland's debts with England's money, continues to this day. Perhaps when the Old Country cuts itself free of Europe, it will follow through by cutting itself free of Scotland.
"and nought shall make us rue / if England to herself do rest but true."
It wasn’t exactly an “act of history”...a delicate way of avoiding the word murder. Queen Elizabeth authorized cutting off the Scottish Queen Mary’s head, but since Good Queen Bess couldn’t be married off because of some womanly difficultes...lots of surmising why Lizzie didn’t get married off to foreign Kings as politically she would have been quite a catch, her cousin, Queen Mary, whom she had decapitated, had a son who united the two kingdoms of Scotland and England finally under one crown. Maybe Scotland and England will be dis-united once again as many Scots would like to see happen. We live in interesting times.
he son who inherited the crown, and Scotland and England were then united.
he had some “womanly” difficulties could neither marry nor bear children, her cousin Queen Mary’s child, became King and united the two countries.