[Novalug] Curious - any Scottish heritage folks in Novalug?
John Franklin
franklin@elfie.org
Wed Jun 22 17:10:58 EDT 2016
> On Jun 22, 2016, at 4:55 PM, Beartooth via Novalug <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
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> On Wed, 22 Jun 2016, William Sutton via Novalug wrote:
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>> Hadrian wasn't Scottish. He was Roman. You want to say the Romans had their own Donald Trump, fine, but not the Scots.
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>> Besides which, everyone (including modern Scots) seem to forget that England didn't actually conquer Scotland. James VI, king of Scotland ascended the English throne as James I of England. So from a certain point of view, the Scots acquired the English throne.
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> Indeed. And there's a very readable biography of Mary Queen of Scots by Linda Porter that helps a lot in explaining how.
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Google “CGP Grey brief history of the royal family” for spoilers.
jf
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