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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern ireland is an interesting social experiment. Four nations who have very good reasons to hate each other, united by a common hatred of France.
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But it didn't really start that way, although maybe it's that way now. What about all those centuries during which Scotland's biggest ally was France? Matter of fact, Scotland would have been utterly crushed and incorporated much earlier into a greater England if it hadn't been for France's support of the various Scottish royal houses. Really the UK is the result of a Scottish king becoming the king of England too.
I'm of Scottish decent through the male line (there are records of Sempills in Scotland going back to the early 1300s and my current clanhead is a baron) and it brings me great joy to think that, for a while at least, a Scottish king ruled England.